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Ubisoft Signs Deal With U.S. Army

Pig Hogger writes "The French video game producer Ubisoft has entered an agreement with the U.S. Army to market America's Army-branded video-games. According to the Ferrago story (and this Eurogamer story), '...the full and vast resources of the army will be at Ubisoft's disposal.'"

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  1. I'm glad by Oriumpor · · Score: 5, Funny
    '...the full and vast resources of the army will be at Ubisoft's disposal.'"


    Well it's good to know at least one company will have coffee and cigarettes for all.
  2. Joke prompting... by Godeke · · Score: 4, Funny
    ... but they are all so obvious that I will leave them as an exercise for the reader. Simply combine the following fragments as desired with a few connector words:

    • US Military
    • France
    • Game company with
    • More powerful than
    • Finally a chance
    • Surrender Monkey
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  3. In other news today... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Acting on newly received intelligence, U.S. Special Operations troops neutralized several cells of a dangerous terrorist group known as Electronic Arts.

  4. great by Areeves · · Score: 5, Funny

    '...the full and vast resources of the army will be at Ubisoft's disposal.'" Reminds me of a great story, I was working *somewhere* for the gov and they we're testing a handheld device for the marines that would say simple phrases in arabic like "get down on the ground" "freeze!" etc. A bunch of grunts are sitting around in a room messing with these things while the CO is rambling on about how many millions they blew on this thing and how much its going to help, one marine manages to say the following "sir, I've got an M-16 with a huge frikin knife on the end of it, and, well, I'm pretty sure that will be all the translation I need. The CO looks around, shakes his head and dismissed them all. God I love the Mil.

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