5punk

Oldish news but read here and here

Just so you know what they're talking about.

Then watch This.


In short, turns out the video was a fan video, mostly created off BF2 and some SF, with a spattering of team america. it was spotted by US govt. "experts" on an allegedly terrorist site.

I suspect the SF content is what caused the hassle, given SF contains more classic looking terrorists, given the MEC are wearing teatowels and holding RPGs

more ways for the fanvid.


Google Video, YouTube, WMV Download

"using video games to train recruits"

They will love Full Spectrum Warrior: Ten Hammers, then. When playing as the Insurgents you collect civilians, recruit and train them into soldiers.

Oh god, I hate this sort of shit.

"youths as young as 7 can play at being troop-killing urban guerillas"

Why 7? Surely any kid old enough to pick up a mouse could try to play? That's just media spin. (And is there an age limit enforced in America's Army, incidentally?)

"Critics of the U.S. video game industry have long blamed the products for violence among American teenagers in civilian society, including high-profile shootings at public schools."

Why is this relevant? Not only is it completely unproven, it has very little relation to the story and is simply put in there for shock value and sensationalism.

"SAIC executive Eric Michael said researchers suspect Islamic militants are using video games to train recruits and condition youth to attack U.S.-led coalition horses in Iraq."

Why is the narrator speaking English then?

Shame on you Reuters. I expect editorialisation and scaremongering from News Of The World, but not an established international source of reports.

Well done ABC though for bothering to check the story and for reporting on the real issue that arises from this - how qualified are the 'experts' who advise the US government (and presumably similar people advising the British government) to be advising on issues like this?

Dog Pants wrote: Well done ABC though for bothering to check the story and for reporting on the real issue that arises from this - how qualified are the 'experts' who advise the US government (and presumably similar people advising the British government) to be advising on issues like this?

^this.

It nice to see that there is an american news team that are happy to, essentially, say "our goverment has been fucking stupid".

I particularly enjoyed the moment when the guy "corrected" the..er...other guy, saying "no, just to be clear, you have to get an addon from a 3rd party to play as a terrorist."

pfft!

I read about this a few days ago. I like how their "experts" are mostly over the age of fifty and don't know the first thing about games at all.

funny to see the US government use propaganda on their own people now that theres no cold war or vietnam. Lets target the terrorist video gamers.

Bush, Intelligent design?