US Army Spends MillionsOn Video Games

The US Army plans to spend $50 million on developing video games over the next six years for training soldiers. The US Army publication Stars & Stripes reports that the Training and Doctrine Command will start video game development in 2010, with a projected delivery date sometime in 2015. Meanwhile, the US military will be setting up its own network of LAN gaming parties, with 70 gaming systems to be installed at 53 sites in the US, Germany, Italy and South Korea by September 2009. ( www.theinquirer.net )

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