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.
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The Emeryville, California based development studio responsible for America’s Army 3 has been shut down, according to details forwarded to Kotaku by former staffers. That closing comes one day after the U.S. Army funded simulation officially shipped.
The U.S. Army is funding improvements to a drunk driving game developed at the University of Calgary, in hopes of reducing what they say is a growing drunk driving problem among soldiers returning from war zones.
You know the United States Army is hard up for recruits when they start poking around in the unicorn-filled virtual world of Linden Labs’ Second Life.
The U.S. Army has created a video game training unit that will begin operation in 2010, and has funding for it set aside to the tune of $US50 million, reports Stars and Stripes. This isn’t for recruiting or marketing, but the training of its soldiers in virtual environments.
Well, it’s not so much a Brigade, as it is an…office. The US Army have decided that rather than trying to modify existing commercial games like Full Spectrum Warrior (whose hidden Army mode was a complete arse-kicker) for use as training programs, they may as well try building their own. So they’ve established the Training and Doctrine Command Project Office for Gaming, which will be looking at the best (ie cheapest) way to turn today’s soldiers into tomorrow’s killing machines. They’re currently working on two projects: one to sex up their simulation program’s graphics, the other to set up a simulation “level editor”, which would allow officers to build their own training scenarios without the need of costly, pesky civilian contractors. Both sound just wonderful, with the “level editor” expected to be ready to enter service by around, oh, 2015.
