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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 »

1:00 PM on Sat Apr 26 2008
By ogood
3,220 views, 35 comments

Latest by bluerondo: "The three titles are called Rapid Onset, Sudden Thrust and Vital Passage, which is a Freudian trilogy if I've ever heard one." Owen, you're officially my favorite Kotaku writer. more »

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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.

Why video gamers make the best spies [timesonline] Thanks Ad!

10:40 AM on Thu Oct 18 2007
By Mark Wilson
908 views, 14 comments

Latest by Kruel: Lol, "teabagging specialist"... I wish that was my official title. :D more »

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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.
Steve Wang - Head of Studios for Micro Fort commented, "Although we were sad to stop working on CZ, we are extremely excited about the progress of our spy project."

The new MMO looks to "bring the social MMO experience together with game-play that has been traditionally the domain of single player games," which incidentally exactly what the recently launched Heatwave Interactive plans to do. I'm beginning to think what I thought was a great idea is simply a common buzzphrase in the MMO industry. Either way, rest in peace, Citizen Zero. Michael Fahey More »

12:40 PM on Thu Mar 1 2007
By Mike Fahey
1,129 views, 6 comments

Latest by DaveKap: @ArmyofJuan: Depending on the company, either the boss really did spring it on them (unlikely) or they knew this thing was dead 2 years ago and have been simply brushing up on some coding techniques (yeah right) or were already more »

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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 »

11:40 AM on Mon Jul 24 2006
By brownlee
409 views, 14 comments