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Cure exotic animals on the Wii

Posted May 7th 2008 8:00PM by Candace Savino
Filed under: News, Imports

If you thought that Trauma Center's return to the DS would mean the end of medical games on the Wii, you were wrong.

Zoo Hospital isn't just about normal doctoring, though -- as you can probably figure out from the game's title, you'll be a veterinarian (or, straight out of vet school, at least) that works on curing exotic animals from sicknesses.

Surgeries won't be the only tasks you'll be performing in Zoo Hospital. You'll also do X-Ray and dentistry related tasks to soothe the forty-eight ailing animals. But even if you find the premise interesting, you might not want to get your hopes too high, as the DS version off the game (also developed by Torus) was apparently not that good.

Zoo Hospital is planned to launch in European and PAL territories during Q4, 2008.

Gallery: Zoo Hospital


[Via press release]
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Trauma Center: New sale

Posted Apr 17th 2008 3:00PM by Candace Savino
Filed under: Sales

Is it us, or has Amazon been a great place for Nintendo shoppers lately?

In any case, today's "Deal of the Day" is Trauma Center: New Blood, the most recent (until July 1st!) Trauma Center game on the market. If Atlus decides to bring the series back to the DS for good, this may be the last time you get to operate with your Wiimote.

The deal also provides pretty decent savings, as the game is marked down by $17 (meaning it will cost you $32.99). Is anyone planning on getting this today? If so, just make sure you order it before 3am EDT.

Gallery: Trauma Center: New Blood

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Trauma Center: New Blood, Old Sale

Posted Feb 17th 2008 2:00PM by Eric Caoili
Filed under: Sales



A few of you expressed disappointment about missing out on this Trauma Center: New Blood deal when we posted the sale last December, but it's back, listed on Amazon for $29.99 (free shipping, naturally). Everyone deserves a second chance!

Once again, the online shop will pull that bargain price at midnight tonight or whenever its stock runs out, so don't put off your purchase for too long -- didn't you learn anything from the last time this happened? It's not like there are many other surgery sims with a co-op mode out there, anyway.

Gallery: Trauma Center: New Blood


[Via CAG]
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Before being operated on, make sure your surgeon can play the Wii

Posted Jan 17th 2008 2:15PM by Candace Savino
Filed under: News

Playing the Wii and cutting people open are the same things, really. Okay, not really. But, according to science, playing Wii games can help improve one's surgical skills.

Studies showed that trainees performed better in virtual reality surgical simulations after getting in some Wii time first. Those who played the Wii before testing their surgical skills scored 50% higher in the simulation than those who didn't.

Of course, not all Wii games are fashioned for improving dexterity. We don't imagine that Wii Boxing, for example, would be good for anything except tenderizing organs. Titles that require delicacy and precision, though, like Marble Mania, had positive results. We're curious to know whether or not Trauma Center would be useful to blossoming surgeons, but unfortunately, the game was not mentioned (and perhaps not used) in the study.

[Thanks to everyone who sent this in!]
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Trauma Center Tuesday, brought to you on Wednesday (cause we're rebels like that)

Posted Nov 14th 2007 3:10PM by Candace Savino
Filed under: News, Video

Yesterday marked the last Trauma Center Tuesday before New Blood's release next week, and that means Atlus had more surgical goodies for us. The most notable treat this week was the video of the game's introduction, which we posted above for your viewing pleasure. Aren't we just the best?

Normally we wouldn't go all ga-ga over a game's opening (okay, well sometimes we do), but this is one of the best we've seen. The art, the effects, the music, and everything about this introduction makes us weak in the knees. It was like watching the opening to a TV show ... er, if TV show openings were actually good and made us want to cut people open.

Atlus, you sly dogs, now you have us looking deeper into our wallets during this video game glut, hoping that we can stretch them enough to pick up your game next week. Does anyone else feel our pain?

On a side note, you should check out the ridiculous poem Atlus sent us that's posted after the break. Atlus, stick to making video games and not poetry, okay?

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Fast, frenetic two-player action in New Blood

Posted Nov 6th 2007 2:15PM by Alisha Karabinus
Filed under: Video


Ever since Trauma Center: New Blood was announced, it seems we're awash in videos from the forthcoming title, but really, who can complain? This latest shows off some of the cooperative play, and by "some of," we mean an entire operation. Looks like nothing's decreased in intensity here, but really, what is Trauma Center if not an experience in getting your ass kicked? We're in!
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Trauma Center Tuesday: new faces, hopefully belonging to people with steady hands

Posted Oct 30th 2007 5:00PM by JC Fletcher
Filed under: News, Video


It's Tuesday, and Trauma Center: New Blood isn't out yet, so you know what that means: another Trauma Tuesday update at the game's homepage! Atlus has released a new trailer for the game, highlighting some of the new characters to be found, including ... some surgeon! Another surgeon! And a nurse! Maybe the addition of full voice acting will make us follow the plot more closely, but we doubt it. We just want to perform surgeries on people infected with bizarro alien viruses!

This week's update also brings news about preorder bonuses: if you preorder the game from Atlus's online store, you'll get one of the swanky Trauma Center syringe pens, which even people like us who can make ourselves pass out by thinking of syringes can enjoy. You'll also get (in the words of the press release) "a certificate to (virtually) operate on people!" Finally, a nice diploma to class up your wall.
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Wii Warm Up: Well, it's medical ... ish

Posted Oct 14th 2007 10:30AM by Alisha Karabinus
Filed under: Wii Warm Up

We love Trauma Center. It's just good, clean, surgical fun, and the forthcoming New Blood just looks awesome. It's just this box art we're not sure about. Maybe it's just us, but it seems so ... plain. So mundane. So not in-keeping with the other games. What do you think of it?

Look, don't get us wrong. We're likely to sink an unhealthy number of hours into it anyway, because that's what we do in the seven minutes of spare time we have per week. It's just that sometimes, we're forced to shake our heads over boxart decisions, and this is one of those times.
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Trauma Center: New Blood announced

Posted Jul 10th 2007 11:15AM by Eric Caoili
Filed under: News, Nintendo Wi-Fi, Screens



Given Atlus' sales success with Trauma Center: Second Opinion, timing the remake to release with the Wii's launch, it's no surprise that the small publisher has readied a true sequel for the surgery sim. Trauma Center: New Blood introduces two young surgeons, Markus Vaughn and Valerie Blaylock, along with several exciting features: a cooperative mode, online leaderboards, and a 16:9 widescreen mode. Throw on your scrubs and hit the gallery up for New Blood's first screenshots.

Gallery: Trauma Center: New Blood


[Via NeoGAF]
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Japanese hardware sales, 27 November - 3 December: You'll Just Have To Watch And Find Out Edition

Posted Dec 8th 2006 11:20PM by Jason Wishnov
Filed under: News, Fan stuff


Well, now that the Wii has officially joined the Japanese hardware sales number game, all of you lovely NWF readers can enjoy the benefits that the DS Fanboy crew have so long enjoyed: my weekly edition posts! You're so lucky.

Really.

- Wii: 350,358 [New Entry!]
- DS Lite: 176,901 24,477 (12.15%)
- PS3: 31,436 1,226 (3.75%)
- PSP: 23,917 6,898 (22.39%)
- PS2: 23,115 3,148 (11.99%)
- Xbox 360: 4,053 2,954 (42.16%)
- GBA SP: 1,572 308 (24.37%)
- Game Boy Micro: 1,252 17 (1.38%)
- Gamecube: 821 245 (42.53%)
- DS Phat: 140 72 (33.96%)
- GBA: 22 5 (18.52%)
- Xbox: 11 11 (N / A)

[Source: Media Create]
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Trauma Center: Second Opinion video

Posted Sep 15th 2006 8:00AM by Nikki Inderlied
Filed under: News, Fan stuff


Forget spending thousands of dollars to go to medical school! Forget dissecting real cadavers! Forget getting a piece of paper that tells people they have to pay you a lot of money for the rest of your life! You have Trauma Center!

Trauma Center: Second Opinion will teach you everything you need to know about surgery and the operating room in a fictional environment. In this video, we will learn how to drain blood! Yes!

As always, you must put in the work and click the continue link. Trust us, it's worth it.

[Via Go Nintendo]

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Atlus denies Revo Trauma Center...for now

Posted Mar 6th 2006 1:15PM by Ludwig Kietzmann
Filed under: Rumors, Controller

Given that the game largely involves slicing open people's pulsating internal organs, we were quite excited to hear about the supposed confirmation that Trauma Center was coming to the Revolution. So excited, in fact, that we hastily contacted someone at Atlus and demanded (or pleaded for, depending on how you look at it) further information. We spoke about a few things, but the official line is the one you may not like.

As it stands, Atlus officially denies the IGN "confirmation" of a Revolution-based Trauma Center sequel. Now, we'd be willing to place a substantial bet on the game appearing eventually, possibly as soon as E3--the only point of contention here is that Atlus has not officially said anything about the game. Given how well the original title made use of the DS touch screen, it would seem almost painfully obvious that the franchise is a surgically precise fit for Nintendo's controller. Sometimes a denial is all we need to confirm our suspicions.

(Subtle, Ludwig. Real subtle.)

[Thanks Tomm!]
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