All these games with their intelligence ratings and brain ages has us a little worried. Could it be that the nigh-nightly college kegger-style binge drinking sessions might actually be doing something to the razor-sharp and amazingly intelligent TPS staff? Possibly, but it sure seems to be hitting some more than others.

This was made abundantly clear when we jumped into a quick play session of Midway's Hot Brain a rapid-fire series of matching, eliminating, counting and reading puzzles that play like a lightning round in a quiz show. The questions weren't terribly hard (trace a string from one ball of yarn to another or pick the word that sounds like an image, for instance), but the challenge was in just trying to complete as many as possible. Since all the answers are mapped to the X, Circle, Triangle and Square Buttons, the time-tested mechanic of being as quick on the draw as possible actually made the game quite fun.

The one real gripe we had with the game was just that we couldn't really hear it, but that was more the event space than anything else. Apparently Midway managed to land Fred Willard to supply the voice of Ed Warmer, the game's professor, tutor and cheerleader, and we really wanted to hear what Ed Warmer sounded like.

Alas, we'll have to wait a little longer to find out, though the game does ship next month. When it does arrive, you'll be quizzed daily on how "hot" (read: accurate and firing on all cylinders) your brain is, and can track that over the course of days or weeks or months. Though we didn't dare let our decaffeinated brain try the harder difficulty levels, there are three of them to choose from. All told, logic, memory, math, spelling and concentration will be put to the test. Just remember, you're never quite as sharp the morning after an office kegger.