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Video Games Are Working On The Railroad
2:20AM Mike Fahey | What does a one-hundred and fifty-seven year old railroad company like Union Pacific turn to in order to reach out to new, modern-age employees? Why video games, of course. More »
UK Soldiers to Train on Game That Stinks … Literally
2:30AM Maggie Greene | Well, militaries across the world may soon have a new war game to their arsenal, and it could have a trickle down effect to retail games — British researchers have come up with a game system that incorporates a ’smell box,’ in an attempt to see if they can make training stick better. In what sounds like an unpleasant experience, various smells are triggered as users ‘take an authentic walk’ around hostile areas. If it’s determined this is making training more useful, it could be rolled out next year and be used in training actual soldiers: More »
UK Military Investigating Smelly Games
8:20AM Stuart Houghton | You know who likes the smell of victory in the morning? The British Army, that’s who – and now the Ministry Of Defence is pumping research pounds into creating a Virtual Battlefield complete with Virtual Smells so soldiers can sample that smell – alongside the bouquet of bullets, the whiff of weaponry and the perfume of the paramilitary – without having to step into harm’s way. More »
On the Gaming-Academic Divide
2:30AM Maggie Greene | There are plenty of fields where the academic-’real world’ divide is pretty sharp — and it’s probably no surprise that game-related research falls into that category. Richard Bartle, MUD co-creator, criticises universities who are resistant to change — while ‘modern’ universities (ones who developed from polytechnics or institutes, at least in the UK) are more willing to lead the way with creative courses, older institutions are less likely to follow suit: More »
