Last year at E3, every publisher was chasing two key markets, girls and younger kids. This effectively gave us two new "types" of game: kid-friendly titles aiming to teach them something and the Imagine: Something ending in a "Z" series. The latter has seen surprising success with girls (that is, if you judge success by the number of questions asked about a game on Yahoo Answers), but the "teaching" games have so far been as well received as long division.
New art game for children makes learning to draw fun.
Upcoming DS game is based on a best-selling line of Japanese drawing books.