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Army Sets Up Videogame Studio

Posted by simoniker on from the crunch-sir-yes-sir dept.

Ralph Lee writes "Is it time to enlist? Wired News is reporting that the US Army has set up a video game studio to model training and recruit soldiers on the heels of the successful America's Army title: 'The America's Army Government Applications office was quietly opened in January in Cary, North Carolina, with a team of 15 video-game creators, simulation specialists and ex-Army personnel. Many of the studio's employees come from local video-game companies like Interactive Magic, Timeline, Vertis, SouthPeak Interactive, Vicious Cycle Software and Red Storm Entertainment.'" It's also noted that "the office is working with a team of 24 video-game creators in Monterey, California, on the latest edition to its main franchise, America's Army: Overmatch, which will be released in March 2005."

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  1. Amazing that! by GeckoX · · Score: 2, Funny

    It is truly amazing that the organization that gave us the America's Army video games...wait for it...now has a video game studio!

    Holy shit! Who would have thunk that releasing a Game like America's Army would lead to building a game studio?

    Do you catch the hint of sarcasm yet?
    WTF, like really. Of course they have a freaking game studio...somebody had to build the freaking game in the first place.

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    1. Re:Amazing that! by osullish · · Score: 5, Funny

      Not that amazing - this company are able to make this product product without any known manufacturing facilities!

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  2. Don't do it! by silicon+not+in+the+v · · Score: 3, Funny

    It's a front to get more recruits for the war. You'll get deployed! (I'd better put in this ;) or I'll need to search for my asbestos underwear.)

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  3. Re:Am I alone...? by Anixamander · · Score: 2, Funny

    The propaganda has always existed, and may even be necessary, and this is just a new way of doing it. I for one am looking forward to America's Army: Torture!, but I just hope they can get better models than this. She's no Lora or Samus, that's for sure.

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  4. Re:Am I alone...? by ObsessiveMathsFreak · · Score: 2, Funny

    Well... your tax money was spent!
    I'm just a freeloading european! ;E

    I guess the marshall plan never really ended. :E

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