war
In Real Life

Osama’s Compound Now A Virtual Commando Training Ground

TAMPA, Fla. – To passersby, T.J., a fit 20-something, is running around a red felt carpet about half the size of a basketball court inside a convention centre. In his mind, he’s wearing a full set of body armour, his face obscured by a ski mask with a death’s head silkscreened on it. And he’s just dropped a terrorist inside Osama bin Laden’s Abbotabad compound.

May 4, 2011
In Real Life

Giz Explains: What Happens When You Get Shot In The Head

You may or may or may not see it coming, but it doesn’t really matter. You’re not going to have time to react. Because a bullet can travel at speeds exceeding 975m/s, which is too fast to duck or yell or plead. Hang in there. Taking a cap to the dome means that it will be over faster than a fatal wound anywhere else.

March 31, 2011
PlayStation

SOCOM 4 Turns The Hurt Locker Into PlayStation 3 Sport

War video games let us pretend we’re in movies. They may let us pretend we’re in actual war, but come on, not really.

March 11, 2011
In Real Life

Games Help Soldiers Manage Combat Nightmares

Research that last year suggested gamers had the ability to control their dreams – or fight back in nightmares – has been applied to soldiers who have seen combat duty, and finds that those who game have fewer and less intense nightmares about war.

December 22, 2010
In Real Life

Call Of Duty Is Nothing Like The Real Thing

I’ve been a long-time advocate of somebody making a war game that plays like an actual war: one where you fight in real battles, not battles from a video game based on an action movie. This is what I mean.

November 30, 2010
News

A War Game Where Nothing Could Happen

Video game creator Sion Lenton had an idea for one level of his next war video game. The sequence would feature Marines, probably in near-future Tajikistan, on assignment, on patrol. They’d walk around, looking for bad guys. They’d find none.

November 24, 2010
News

Crisis In Korea Has A Video Game Echo

If war flares again on the Korean peninsula as it threatened to today, there will be far more dire things to worry about than a video game, but the upcoming Homefront will nevertheless feel different.

September 9, 2010
News

Nazi Zombies, Auschwitz And Uwe Boll

Uwe Boll, the German filmmaker best known for his film versions of video games, is helming two movies about World War II. Both films were shot back to back. One is based on a video game and features zombie Nazis. The other?

September 1, 2010
In Real Life

‘That’s Not The Way You Play The Game’

Long before there were video games about people shooting one another in war, there were wars with people shooting one another.

August 16, 2010
News

Inevitably, Someone’s Mad That You Can Be The Taliban In Medal Of Honor

I must be inside the bubble, because the idea of playing as the Taliban in Medal of Honor multiplayer didn’t hit me as particularly controversial. Fox News noticed. Though it did treat the subject reasonably, the woman they interviewed doesn’t.

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