In Real Life

This Graphic Novel Shows The Horrific Costs Of Modern Warfare

Shooters protagonist Terry Glass isn’t that different from the kind of character you’d play in a Medal of Honor, Battlefield or Call of Duty game. He’s a fictional American soldier fighting in the geopolitical hotspots where America’s armed forces face off against disparate, tough-to-pin-down threats.


May 1, 2012
In Real Life

The Best Video Games Can’t Predict What Kim Jong-Un Would Do To Win War

It is curious that there are far more games on a Soviet invasion of West Germany that never happened than a Communist assault on South Korea that actually did. It is even more curious that there haven’t been more games on a Second Korean War, given how volatile the region is.


January 13, 2012
News

The U.S. Army Pulls The Trigger On Realistic Video Game Controllers

It’s not news that you can get a plastic gun to play a video game where you get to shoot other human beings. It is news that you can get gun controllers that exist with the blessing of the U.S. Army.


December 30, 2011
Uncategorized

The UK’s Ministry Of Defense Wants Simulators As Good As Battlefield 3 Or Modern Warfare 3

It’s no secret that today’s soldiers train on all manner of video game-style simulators. In the United Kingdom’s Ministry of defence, British servicemen use Virtual Battlepace 2 as part of their regimen. VBS2 is a product of Bohemia Interactive, who also make the ultra-realistic shooter sim Operation Flashpoint games for the consumer market. (The U.S. Secret Service use it, too.) However, unlike the OpFlash games, VBS2 hasn’t gotten an update since 2007. In the dog years of video game engine iteration, that’s a loooong time. With recruits already having experienced the better graphics and gameplay of Battlefield 3 and Modern Warfare 3, British military are finding that VBS2′s hoary old experience no longer holds new trainees’ attention. Bored soldiers-in-training probably aren’t what you want to be sending all over the world.


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 8, 2011
Xbox

Infamous Real-Life Mercenaries To Star In Blackwater, The Video Game

Blackwater Worldwide, the real-life mercenary team linked to the killing of civilians and noncombatants in Iraq during US operations there, will be the subject of a Kinect-supported video game coming to the Xbox 360 later this year.


May 7, 2011
In Real Life

Watch Gamers Kill Osama In Recreation Of SEALS Assault On Compound

Gamers can play through the final, fatal moments of Osama Bin Laden’s last stand in Abbottabad, Pakistan in the latest, last episode of video war game Kuma War II.


September 21, 2010

The 10 Goofiest Computer Hacking Scenes In Cinema History

Computer hacking isn’t really a spectator sport, so movies will embellish hacking scenes with funky visuals, inane jargon, and supercomputers that run on magic and prayer. Here are 10 of the most awesomely groanworthy keyboard-smashing scenes.


April 29, 2010
In Real Life

These Video Game Movies Don’t Actually Suck

By “video game movie”, I do not mean movies that were adapted from video games. Oh, no.


March 31, 2010
News

Medal Of Honor Developer: “Afghanistan Sort Of Chose Us”

This spring, one of the biggest war video game franchises will be set in a current war, the conflict in Afghanistan. Why? Not politics, a developer told Kotaku. Not current events.