Army Funds Game Development

winter@ES writes: "The U.S. Army is teaming up with Sony, Pandemic Studios, and Quicksilver software to develop a pair of squad-level combat games. Through the Institute for Creative Technologies (jointly operated by the U.S. Army and the University of SOCAL) the Army will be funding and developing "C-Force", targetted for next-gen consoles, and "CS-12" for PCs. The project is headed up by Mech Warrior veteran, Rob Sears."

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dear god

[motherhead]

I hope the kinder dosent try rocket-jumping with LAWS portable rocket launchers...

WarGames?

[tonywestonuk]

Shall we play a game?

Global Thermo-Nuclear War

Would you not prefer a game of Chess?

No, Lets play Global Thermo-Nuclear War

OK.... Please select primary targets....

etc etc etc....

oh lord

[jbarket]

just what we need.. half of the army running around screaming 'w00t'

In other news...

[t_allardyce]

Osama Bin Laden is currently working in association with software company al-Qaedasoft to produce a new line of action games. Included in the series will be a game called:

"The Yanks Are Coming" inwhich you control taliban children with AK-47s, and must mow down as many american solders as possible.

"Attah's Fun Time" is a game aimed at a younger audience, inwhich the late mohammed attah (pilot of hijacked plane) will teach school children how to count "12-Degrees-North-15-Minutes" do arithmetic "5000ft -4000ft = 1000ft" and learn about shapes "Which tower looks like that tower?"

And finally, to replace the numbers of expensive training camps "Afgans Over the Line" or 'AOL' will be given away free to teach basic training, how to clean your AK-47, Piloting modern airliners, and how to get past passport control in 4 easy steps.