This link (thanks Tara) came across my desk today and after looking at it, I decided it was worthy of a nod. It's a cutely drawn web comic and the topic today is how box covers can sell games. The funniest comics always have some truth in them, don't they?

I certainly wish this wasn't a truthism of our industry. Of course, the gaming industry isn't the only one around who uses the notion of 'sex sells'. We just do it more loudly.

Would you, as a man, buy a game with a busty woman on the box, even if you didn't know if the game was good or not? Would cleavage make you give it a second look?

Would you, as a woman, completely ignore a box with boobs on it, even if the possibility existed it might be a fairly decent game?

Does box cover matter all that much in our purchase decisions?