Described as a "Brain Age with words," Ubisoft's My Word Coach for Wii and DS aims to make linguistic education fun. IGN tested out the game and were impressed by the amount of fun and education embedded into the game. Not to mention the DS connectivity with the Wii version, where you can use the stylus as a controller -- very useful when you are writing letters, for example.
Sporting 17,000 words and definitions, a glossary for reference and profile settings that let you review your previous successes and failures, My Word Coach can certainly help with one's verbage (not to imply that you, dear reader, don't already have an impeccable grasp of the English language). With four-person multiplayer, we'll be able to beat our friends and learn new, more bombastic diction with which to trash talk.
My Word Coach is due out Fall 2007.
[Via Wii, DS Fanboy]
Reader Comments (11)
Posted: May 23rd 2007 5:05PM (Unverified) said
DAMMIT!! I WANT TO LEARN JAPANESE ON MY DS ALREADY!!
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Posted: May 23rd 2007 5:07PM cyruszuo said
Verbiage - a profusion of words usually of little or obscure content, An excess of words for the purpose; wordiness.
Verbage - A deliberate misspelling and mispronunciation of verbiage that assimilates it to the word "garbage".
Don't you mean that the game will increase your vocabulary? Essentially Verbage is wordiness with intent to confuse.
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Verbage - A deliberate misspelling and mispronunciation of verbiage that assimilates it to the word "garbage".
Don't you mean that the game will increase your vocabulary? Essentially Verbage is wordiness with intent to confuse.
Posted: May 23rd 2007 5:20PM (Unverified) said
Does it cater for leet speak and the barely comprehensible ramblings of fanboy's?
If not I wouldn't recommend it to 99% of the people who post on Joystiq! :)
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If not I wouldn't recommend it to 99% of the people who post on Joystiq! :)
Posted: May 25th 2007 3:39AM einhanderkiller said
Posted: May 23rd 2007 7:18PM (Unverified) said
Wow! A spelling simulator! This is certainly the, err, gaming revolution that Nintendo promised. I could never play a spelling game using one of those those old analog controllers!
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Posted: May 23rd 2007 7:55PM (Unverified) said
I sincerely hope that the grammatical and spelling errors in both the title and post were intended to be ironic. It's hard to tell.
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Posted: May 24th 2007 5:57AM (Unverified) said
@9
Joystiq reader fails to understand joke. EXCLUSIVE!
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Joystiq reader fails to understand joke. EXCLUSIVE!
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