Army Sets Up Videogame Studio

Posted by simoniker on Monday June 21, 2004 @03:33AM 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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Re:Amazing that! by simoniker · 2004-06-21 03:49 · Score: 4, Interesting

To be fair, America's Army wasn't actually built by the, uhh, Army - but by a team headed out of the Naval Postgrad School in Monterey, as referenced in the article. Plus, the Army has been using external contractors such as There Inc. and Pandemic for much of their training-related development, so in some ways, it _is_ interesting that they'd set up a dev studio of their own.

Sarcasm is also always welcome on Slashdot, of course.