Late last year, a British documentary used footage from a video game and amazingly labelled it as a secret IRA recording. It has now, a few months later, been given a severe dressing-down. More »
British communications regulator Ofcom is investigating how a UK documentary examining possible connections between Muammar Gaddafi and the IRA confused video game play for actual IRA footage of a helicopter being shot down. More »
A UK documentary examining possible connections between Muammar Gaddafi and the IRA apparently confused video game play with actual IRA footage of a helicopter being shot down. More »
This isn’t role-playing as you generally associate it. There are no levels or perks here. Instead, this is role-playing in the strictest sense of the word, as a bunch of gamers act out the roles they’ve assumed in-game.
This is footage from a British ArmA II group, who not only went to the trouble of mocking up a fake TV news story, but even added fake news broadscast tickers and logos to go with it.
The opening is pretty hammy, but once the inevitable ambush kicks in, it all gets surprisingly entertaining/realistic and really sells just how serious a game ArmA II can be.
ArmA II is a military shooter from the developers behind the original Operation Flashpoint game. There’s a third game in the series currently in development.
Arma 2: The Player News Report [Rock, Paper, Shotgun]
Recently we ran a competition to give away ten copies of ArmA II. Last Friday we revealed half of the winners. Now, it’s the other half. More »
Our ArmA II competition is closed. So it’s time to reveal the winners. Exciting, yes? More »
Who wants to win a copy of the next PC shooter from the guys who made Operation Flashpoint? More »
