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MI5 recruits Sam Fisher

Spy chiefs advertise for recruits in video games

Words: Ben Richardson, GamesRadar UK
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Oct 18, 2007

Science (by which we mean the few 'facts' we've picked up on Wikipedia) suggests that gaming improves hand-eye-coordination and problem solving. Even so, defeating alien invasions or rearranging pipes to hack vending machines isn't going to bag you a career. Or is it?

In actual fact, it seems online gaming might land you a job as a spook. The government's secret services have teamed up with in-game ad company Massive, and during October they aim to target recruitment adverts at online gamers, with the intention of recruiting for hi-tech roles across the country.

"This initiative will, we hope, capture the imagination of people with a particular interest in IT," a source (disappointingly not wearing a trenchcoat and dark glasses) from Government Communication Headquarters informed us today. GCHQ added: "The world of online gaming allows us to target a captive audience. These gamers are particularly receptive to innovative forms of advertising".

Perhaps predictably, two games to feature the recruitment ads will be Splinter Cell Double Agent and Rainbow Six: Vegas. But the GCHQ is spreading the net wide, and ads also appear in Enemy Territory Quake Wars and, bizarrely, Need for Speed: Carbon. Perhaps MI5 is in dire need of getaway drivers?


 
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Enemy Territory: Quake Wars
Enemy Territory: Quake Wars

Genre: Shooter
Release date: Oct 2, 2007
Published by: Activision
Developed by: Splash Damage
Franchise: Quake
Min system requirements: Intel Pentium IV 2.8 GHz, 512 MB, 128 MB, 5000 MB
Features: Widescreen, Integrated Voice Chat, Dolby Digital
Multiplayer Modes:
Online
32 player CO-OP
32 player VS
9 AWESOME
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