Saturday, November 22, 2008

[NEWS] Army To Invest $50 Million In Gaming Unit

Stars & Stripes reports:
The Army has created a video game unit and will invest $50 million over five years on games and gaming systems designed to prepare soldiers for combat.[...]

Soldiers will be able to drive virtual vehicles, fire virtual weapons, pilot virtual unmanned aerial vehicles and do "most anything a soldier does" in a virtual battle space as large as 100 kilometers by 100 kilometers, she said.