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Posts Tagged ‘wargames’
Slaying the Lone Gunman
Posted: June 21, 2011 by Twitchdoctor in Games and Life, Games and the Media, UncategorizedTags: Avatar, Galaxy Quest, games, Last Starfighter, science fiction, The Fellows Hip: Rise of the Gamers, The Lord of the Rings Online: Shadows of Angmar, The Matrix, Tron, Video game, wargames
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Uncle Sam Wants You!
Posted: May 13, 2010 by Twitchdoctor in Games and the Media, Games and the MilitaryTags: military, recruitment, simulation, videogames, wargames
One of my former students, Ajay Kumar, has just published a piece on the US military’s use of videogames as recruitment tools. The piece appears in GW Discourse, the student-run publication of George Washington University’s Political Science Department. The piece was written prior to the leaked video footage of the helicopter gunship attack in Baghdad, [...]
