"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."

vgcosplay via www.vgcosplay.com »

"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 ..."

Reason via www.videogamer.com »

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...

Akira_EX via www.atlus.com »

"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:

Storm via www.1up.com »