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"When it comes to the marketing side of things, box art has played almost as big a part of game sales as the design and programming of the titles themselves. In the early days of the industry, it wasn't uncommon for games to have imagery that conveyed completely unrealistic ideas of what the gameplay was actually like."
Ryan Johnson | GoozerNation
If you've followed along with Ryan Johnson's Evolution of a Gamer series at GoozerNation, you have seen many lessons learned by him as well as his son through video games. While this article has very little to do with games in general, it does provide a gaming lesson, mini review of Trauma Center: Second Opinion, and set up future articles. Read in!
Nintendo can add this to their philanthropic list of trying to help people, whether it's to lose weight or just kill time. Wiis have been used in some hospitals for a while now. Ever since its release, these hospitals have been implementing them in their physiotherapy program by making patients do the activities in Wii Sports. But this is one of the first few times that it's being used to aid doctors and, in this case, surgeons. The Banner Good Samaritan Medical Center, in Arizona, has been u...
In an e-mail sent out today, Atlus USA has announced that they will be localizing Hospital, the Wii title from the Trauma Center team that was recently unveiled in this week's Weekly Famitsu magazine. The game will go by the moniker Trauma Team in North America, and is currently given as a Spring 2010 release.
Trauma Team takes you out of emergency room and into the control of the whole hospital, as the game has six playable characters, each with a different profession and gameplay type. ...
"We'd all love to be able to class gaming as a training tool and something we could do during work, but I doubt most bosses would see a few games of PES as essential for the job. It seems that surgeons do benefit from playing video games though - at least when that console is the Wii.
According to NewScientist, Kanav Kahol and Marshall Smith of the Banner Good Samaritan Medical Center in Phoenix, Arizona, believe that playing on the Wii increases the performance of surgical residents. They ..."
So, the first update for Trauma Center Tuesday, the news site for Trauma Center: New Blood, is Atlus's Trauma Center Portal, where it'll link you to the product pages for Trauma Center: Under the Knife, Trauma Center: Second Opinion, and Trauma Center: New Blood. Unfortunately, there isn't much other than "Coming Holiday 2007" for the New Blood site.
Also revealed is the NA boxart, with our little friend, the Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection symbol in the top left. According to Joystiq, New B...
"Atlus brings us two sequels courtesy of this E3: Trauma Center: New Blood for Wii and Touch Detective 2 1/2 for Nintendo DS.
As for the hospital drama - coming before the end of the year -- look for:
And in Touch Detective 2 1/2, which finds Mackenzie a fully accredited sleuth that's not being taken seriously by anyone:...
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