Award winning actress Nicole Kidman has been selected to promote "More Brain Training from Dr. Kawashima: How Old Is Your Brain?" (Brain Age 2) in Nintendo's pan-European campaigns for the game.
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I found this article by way of Kotaku. And where the Kotaku author wasn't exactly kind in his/her estimation of Nicole Kidman, his/her comment about the actress trying to find a "ladylike fashion" for screaming "BLUE" at the screen, rang so true with me I couldn't resist illustrating the scene. So, I stole it.

I remember Taks and I both playing Brain Age on the DS, and we both refused to play the color-calling section because the system had such a hard time recognizing the word blue. I'm loathe to admit it, but at one point I did scream "BROO" at the DS*. It was terrible and I was instantly ashamed of myself. But, it freakin' worked so how ashamed should I be?

* I blame Mel Gibson and Danny Glover in Lethal Weapon 4 for this, 100%.

I think Celebrity Endorsement of Video Games sad, rather sad. I am dreading the day Paris Hilton promotes a game series I love

Bluuuuuuue?
BLOO!

Yes, yes, I do believe the answer was blue.
/monocle

great comic! lol

I saw an article about this today, thougth it was an amusing concept. Funny though i never had any problems with the colour calling one... i found the other similar (and poorly executed) title Big Brain Academy had alot worse voice recognision... besides the dudes in Big Brain Academy look like novelty condoms... not sure what that has to do with anything, but anyway...

I just got a sudden flash back to that Jim Carey movie, where he is trying to get himself to lie about the pen being red, when the pen in actuality is blue LOL. Thats an awesome one Woody.

"The color of the pen, that I hold in my hand, is rrrrrrrrrr

ROYAL BLUE!"

/Liar Liar

That's the first thing that came to my mind.

Nintendo is a stereotype?

Eh, who knew.

Ya, when I found the "hidden" code to choose your brain age games for the rating, speech ANYTHING was out.

It's flied lice you plick!

You almost think Nintindo does stuff like this just to mess with gamers.
First it was blowing in the NES and NES cartriges, sometimes taking hair dryers to them to get them to work.
I've NEVER had a problem with my old SNES with a Nintindo brand controller or any cartridge, they get a pass on that one (oooops, forgot about the 32 bit Playstation cd rom for it, boy did that bite 'em in the end or what?).
I'm paranoid that one scratch is going to completly ruin my Gamecube disks one of these days.
Here's a hint, those Wii remotes that wind up going through the big screen tv's aren't really slips after all (Wii Sports) and I'm sure there's a few DS's with the stylus driven through the cpu like a stake to the heart.
Even with all their faults, I love Nintindo. They are just so darn innovative, every time you look at their new consol you see the controler and say "wtf?!" but it's all good at the end of the day.