<![CDATA[Kotaku: Spies]]> http://cache.kotaku.com/assets/base/img/thumbs140x140/kotaku.com.png <![CDATA[Kotaku: Spies]]> http://kotaku.com/tag/spies http://kotaku.com/tag/spies <![CDATA[Righteousness]]> Targeted for a demonstration by the tantrum-throwing hate whores of the Westboro Baptist Church, Comic-Con's cosplayers fought fire with fire - very clever fire - in San Diego this afternoon. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5594177&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Custom Video Games Training American Spies]]> Fascinating article on Wired.com — the U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency, the Pentagon's CIA counterpart, just paid $2.6 million for three custom video games to train its entire analyst corps, young and old. So, you want to bitch about $60 titles on the Xbox, think of that next time. Plus, these games are bereft of squad-based FPS tactics or any real arcade action. They're designed to get to the heart of epistemology, which is, in essence, how you know what you know, and in these three cases, it's how to assess a threat or judge the quality of information. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=384343&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[British Spies, Found in Videogames]]> British intelligence agencies—specifically the Government Communications Headquarters—will start recruiting Xbox 360 and PC players of Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Double Agent through virtual billboards. So what is this organization exactly in charge of? Spy stuff. Cool stuff. Surveillance stuff. According to an agency rep, they are looking for recruits who are:
computer-savvy, technologically able, quick thinking...We find increasingly we have to use less conventional means of attracting people . . . to go beyond glossy brochures and milk-round stalls.
In short, they're looking to teabagging specialists. But before you get your hopes up, know that most of what they need are less with the knifey and more with the typey. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=312290&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Citizen Zero Canned, Spy MMO Announced]]> Once it was an MMORPG. Then it was a persistent world online shooter. Now it is so much poo gas, as developer Micro Fort 's crumbles up the 7 year old project and tosses it in the rubbish bin, while their other hand distracts us with news of a top-secret spy themed MMO. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=240678&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Splinter Cell: Double Agent Multiplayer Vids]]>
We hope you're curious about multiplayer in Splinter Cell: Double Agent and want to see some videos, because we've got two of the blasted things to insert into this one throwaway post. The first details the 'Spies' multiplayer mode; the second, 'Mercenaries', after the jump. I'm not quite sure I'm any more in the clear on how 'Spies' is played after watching it, though. But 'Mercenaries' sure looks cool. Florian Eckhardt More »
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