The BBC is reporting that, according to a recent study involving more than 600 pupils in 32 Scottish primary schools, Nintendo's Brain Training games for the DS do, in fact, have a positive impact on player's mental abilities.

"Computer games help flatten out the hierarchy that exists in schools - they are in the domain of the learner as opposed to the domain of the school,” said Derek Robertson of Learning and Teaching Scotland

"This intervention encouraged all children to engage and get success in a different contextual framework; one in which they don't know their place."