America's Army News from N4G

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  Beware of soldiers bearing video games

  The Michigan Army National Guard has revealed theyre using games - including golf, tennis and the newly-launched Halo: Reach - as well as football as part of a new project to reach potential recruits.

  PC - Sep 23, 2010
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  America's Army Online gets a graphic novel

  Fudzilla: If taxpayers weren't rejoicing enough the last time around we've heard where their money trickled in, then there's more to come as America's Army Online got a new all-expenses-paid-by-you online graphic novel. The novel has apparently been thoroughly inspected by the Army to provide maximum authenticity, to the point where experts were even checking whether uniform pockets were drawn wrong. Tough and daunting task that one.

  PC - Feb 28, 2010
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  America's Army Cost Taxpayers $32.8 Million

  America's Army, the game that makes army recruiting FUN, cost taxpayers a pretty penny. How much you ask? $32.8 million. That's what the cost of the series has been to date (the game launched in 2001). It was originally planned to be a five-year long project with a total operating budget of $7.0 million. Here's the cost breakdown...

  PC - Dec 09, 2009
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  America's Army Is Most Downloaded War Game

  The US Army has announced its PC shooter, America's Army, is the most-downloaded war game, IncGamers report.

  PC - Feb 04, 2009
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  Worthplaying: America's Army v3 Beta Coming

  Since 2002, Epic's Unreal Engine 2 has served as the foundation for America's Army. To take advantage of leap-ahead capabilities afforded by Epic's newest engine, the Army has been developing its next generation version of America's Army on the Unreal Engine 3 since 2005. While the game has no release date yet, a beta is tentatively scheduled for this winter.

  PC - Sep 09, 2008
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  Fox News: We report... about 5 years late

  Fox News weighs in on America's Army, the video game... About five years too late and Sarcasticgamer.com calls them on it. From the article: What I do care about is how horribly misinformed and uninformed these professional journalists are about the fastest growing and highest grossing form of entertainment in the world. At what point are news organizations going to catch on and stop assigning the guy who stands in hurricanes to talk about how the wind is blowing really ...

  Xbox 360, PC - Aug 19, 2008
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  ACLU Criticizes Military Recruitment, including America's Army Game

  A report issued yesterday by the American Civil Liberties Union criticizes US miltary recruitment practices, including the use of the popular America's Army game franchise as a tool to attract potential recruits.

  PC - May 14, 2008
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  Shoot to thrill: Disturbing link between gaming and military propaganda

  Various commentators have accused Generation Y, those born after 1981, of being disrespectful, constantly distracted, unable to live without a mobile phone, contemptuous of authority, cynical and precocious. A more unlikely batch of soldiers just couldn't be imagined. But this much-maligned generation is precisely the target that the US and Australian defence forces are homing in on in their efforts to keep the 'war on terror' well manned. And their key recruitment strategy? The humble video game. The Age's Fran ...

  Xbox 360, PC - Nov 27, 2007