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How The Wii Can Help Fight Terrorism
3:00AM Brian Crecente | The war on terrorism can be a real hassle, just ask anyone who has flown recently. Fortunately, science and the Wii have joined forces to try and cut-down on those mammoth airport security lines with the Fidget Monitor. More »
Splinter Cell Voice Actor Shot By Terrorists
8:30AM Stuart Houghton | Canadian actor and videogame voice specialist Michael Rudder was among the casualties in the terrorist attacks in Mumbai yesterday. More »
Suicide Bombing Game Too Dull To Be Truly Offensive
8:20AM Stuart Houghton | Aw, bless. This one really tried to be offensive but it comes across like a three year old trying to get a rise out of his grandparents by shouting “POO!” in public. More »
Al Qaeda Suspects ‘Making Detonators Out Of Sega Cartridges’
6:20AM Stuart Houghton | So it’s true – there really is a link between violence and video games. In an otherwise run of the mill article on how the next US President will have to deal with the issue of detainees at Guantanamo Bay, the New York Times printed this little nugget: More »Someone Dumb Thinks GTA IV Violence Inspired By ‘Al-Qaeda’
11:30AM Michael McWhertor | A report from Spiegel online points to someone who isn’t that bright theorising that Grand Theft Auto IV’s designers were inspired by attacks from the Osama bin Laden lead terrorist group. Spiegel cites a member of a message board populated by “cyber-jihadists and al-Qa[e]da sympathisers” who contends that GTA IV’s use of mobile phone triggered bombs “shows the power and effectiveness” of, well, something Al-Qaeda related that is just too dumb to reprint. The theory is fleshed out by evidence that things explode in GTA IV. Compelling stuff. You’ve given us a lot to think about this day, random internet moron. Was Grand Theft Auto IV Inspired by Al-Qaida? [Spiegel via GamePolitics] More »Terrorists Using Fallout 3 Concept Art?
4:50PM Logan Booker | News.com.au is reporting (though the story is sourced from The Australian via Reuters) that the “computer generated” image of the city that appears above was posted on an “Islamist forum”, apparently to show off what Washington DC would look like after a nuke strike. Which I guess is kind of right, seeing as that’s exactly what it’s supposed to be. It was supplied by SITE, a group that monitors Islamic websites.
Wait a minute…
That’s no CG image! That’s concept art by Bethesda for Fallout 3. I tell you, those terrorist groups are getting sloppy. They should spend more on artists and less on AK-47s. Stop stealing stuff off Google Images! It’s bad!
[Thanks JamesC] More » 
World of Warcraft, Now More Terrorist Insightful Than Ever
10:40AM Michael McWhertor | Members of the U.S. intelligence community are soon to be on the hunt for dangerous terrorist boogey-men inhabiting online games like World of Warcraft. At least, that’s what what we assume they’ll tell their superiors, when conducting a four-hour plus raid on taxpayer time. According to fun speculation from Wired, WoW might not just tell us who is going to blow up national treasure X or spread communicable disease Y, it may tell us how. More »
Chinese Police Like Counter-Strike
3:30AM Maggie Greene | The Chinese government may not want kids playing it for hours, but Counter-Strike is good enough for police to play – as anti-terrorism training games. Over 300 members of the Tianjin police force took over an Internet cafe on Wednesday for a three-day competition (including a team of judges to ensure no one was ‘cheating’), and took to heart the mantra of “Enhancing police forces through technology”: After the competition was announced in March, Zhang [Bin, one of the competition organizers] said, police officers were enthusiastic. Now almost half the total Tianjin force are regular players. “Of course, they play, or should I say train, after work,” he added. Officers reported noticeable improvement in self-protection on field missions after the play, Han said, stressing the game was only “a supplement to their traditional means of training.” Now all they need is an outpost in Second Life to recruit officers, and they’ll be in business. Counter-Strike, China police’s latest tool of anti-terrorism [People's Daily Online] More »
