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The U.S. military has long suspected that troops who have long experience with video console and computer games have made Americans better soldiers, at least when it comes to operating high-tech military equipment. But now a study (by the Office of Naval Research) has found that such experience also enables troops to solve problems faster, and act more quickly with those solutions. In technical terms, the computer game experience increases perceptual and cognitive ability 10-20 percent, over those with no computer game experience. The navy was interested in this because most sailors have technical jobs, and many of them involve...

Players of a new video game are reportedly cast as terrorists who murder unarmed civilians in an airport in scenes described as "reminiscent of last year's mass killings in Mumbai". Secret video footage of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 was leaked earlier this morning, showing one level where characters wearing body armour over business suits shoot down other characters. The footage of the massacre — described by gaming blog IGN as "some of the most violent-looking and realistic scenes we've seen in a video game" — was published on YouTube but later pulled because of "copyright infringement". It showed...

This is quite a funny presentation. I'd discuss it but I'd rather you watch instead. Total runtime--5:52. Safe for work. I was hooting toward the end. Click here or at the link above.

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Electronic Arts makes an on-line game called Ultima on-line which has around 200,000 accounts at $10 an account. It is basically a mid-evil adventure game on-line. I have been playing the game since 1997 about as long as I been coming here to FreeRepublic. Not long ago they have allowed kids under 18 to play this game on-line. As a result they have a new problem on their hands. A great deal more harassment calls. The problem has gotten out of hand for the people running the game and as a result they have made a ‘zero tolerance’ policy on...

Hey Ann Coulter you should make SLANDER INTO A COMPUTER AND BOARD GAME Just a thought as it would become a big hit. I can see it now, play the game of slander the hottest political game ever. Pitt the liberal against the right and find out who does the slander all the time. It is the liberals of course and no the games not rigged. It really is the liberals that do slander all the time. Slam the liberals AND Play the Game of SLANDER. Its a great idea, patting self on back! LOL So what do you think?...

An honest-to-God computer game I spied today at the store: "Gore's story is set in a very dark future. The year is 2085, and chaos has become a way of life. Major cities are falling into ruin due to low fuel and no power, and street gangs have grown into predatory terror groups that control the streets. Governments the world over are in trouble. They need a new breed of soldier to establish order-fighters able to handle situations of extreme danger and violence. Enter the 'advanced combat training emulator,' a virtual reality training simulator that weeds out the mentally weak,...