Army Establishes Internal Games Office

The Army has set up a project office specifically for building and deploying training videogames:

No, the Army isn’t about to start handing out copies of Halo 3 to troops, TSJOnline.com notes. “I haven’t seen a game built for the entertainment industry that fills a training gap,” said Col. Jack Millar, director of the service’s Training and Doctrine Command’s (TRADOC) Project Office for Gaming, or TPO Gaming.  Instead, the new office — part of the Army’s Kansas-based National Simulation Center — will focus on using videogame graphics to make those dull military simulations more realistic, and better-looking. 

Army Sets Up New Office of Videogames [Danger Room]

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One Response to Army Establishes Internal Games Office

  1. us army military says:

    The U.S Army military is very well known through out the world as the most powerful military force of the world, in the number of soldiers as well as for the kind of technology used in its equipment.

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