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Studio Head Resigns Over Green Berets Misrepresentation

The head of Pipeworks Studios today resigned from his position, saying he regrets misleading others into thinking that he was a Green Beret.

October 7, 2011
In Real Life

Green Beret Says Military Game Developer Is a Phony, ‘Liar’

This is Pipeworks, an Oregon, US-based game studio headed up by Robert Daly. Apparently, Daly’s been saying he was in the Special Forces. Apparently, Daly is a liar.

July 2, 2011
News

Are Drones So Easy To Fly That Even A Journalist Can Do It?

There’s been much talk lately about the Predator Drone and how using it to take out enemies from a distance is like playing a video game.

June 30, 2011
News

Somewhere Between Predator Drones And Battlefield Have We Lost Sight Of The Horrors Of War?

Predator drones and other high-tech weaponry are turning war into video games and making the use of military force a more, perhaps too, palatable option, an Al Jazeera op-ed piece argues.

June 16, 2011
News

Libya Is Quickly Becoming A Level From Twisted Metal

Just this morning we showed you a chopper-rocket-packing truck of the Libyan rebel army. Looks like it wasn’t the only one they’ve got: we found another hybrid missile pod pounder, firing away across flaming war wreckage. The scene is apocalyptically surreal.

June 9, 2011
Xbox

Suprisingly Competent Blackwater Kinect Title Could Be It’s Own Greatest Victim

This week was the first time we heard of publisher 505 Games’ Blackwater, an FPS that would cast you in the role of Blackwater Worldwide mercenaries.

May 30, 2011
News

Crysis 2′s Engine Will Be Training American Soldiers

Crytek’s CryEngine 3 technology, which we’ve seen most recently in the company’s own Crysis 2, is the driving force behind a $US57 million project from the US Army aimed at teaching its soldiers how to fight.

May 16, 2011
News

Army Wants Soldiers’ Heads To Control Robots

You thought laptop glare was murder on your eyes? Try sending a fleet of wheeled robots down into the horrors of battle using nothing but your icy stare.

May 4, 2011
Xbox

Xbox Live Can Now Bill Military Addresses

In a move sure to please our friends in the military, Xbox Live now accepts AA (Armed Forces of the Americas), AE (Armed Forces Europe) and AP (Armed Forces Pacific) as options for credit card addresses.

May 3, 2011
News

This Military Simulator Is A Match Made In Heavy Metal Heaven00

Brothers Ondrej and Marek Spanel – who spent their childhood in communist Czechoslovakia playing Atari games “bought on the black market” – are the surprising originators behind a military-training game employed by the governments of at least five major nations. Among the brothers’ sources of inspiration: heavy metal music.

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