If you like Guitar Hero and Rock Band then Rhythm Heaven for the recently-released Nintendo DSi is going to blow your damn mind. Known in Japan as Rhythm Tengoku Gold and in Europe as Rhythm Paradise, Rhythm Heaven is a musically inclined gamer’s dream, using taps, flicks, holds and slides with the stylus (or your finger) to perform a wide variety of mini-game “tasks,” such as filling up robots with fuel or playing ping pong, all done in-sync with the music. If you get too much off the beat or miss beats entirely, you lose. (more…)

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Available from the NintendoDSi site, launch titles on offer include the elastic tongue antics of Bird & Beans, the magic-tastic Master Of Illusion, the underwater puzzler Art Style: AQUIA, the micro-game shenanigans of WarioWare: Snapped!, and the cerebral pretensions of Brain Age Express: Math.

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