Check out my new, more generalist blog at My Life and Prophecies. I'll still be blogging here about things related to videogames+war as the spirit moves me, but other event announcements, musings and various mathoms will be posted at MLAP from now on. See ya there...!
Via Wired News: AP reports that the Union of Students Islamic Association finally released their game "Rescue the Nuke Scientist" (my past posts on this topic: here and here plus more from GamePolitics)
Via Water Cooler Games: call for papers for an academic collection entitled Joystick Soldiers: The military/war video game reader
Via Selectparks: the DoD is working on something called the Sentient World Simulation
Via Gamepolitics:
* Sydney Morning Herald looks at new recruitment games for the Australian Defence Force
* US Army criticized for including violent Gears of War in its first Army Gaming Championships.
* Muqtada al Sadr is a gamer???
* Another Islamogame from Iran: Saving the Port
* Ian Bogost's Gamasutra editorial Designing for Tragedy. Relevant to the depiction of war?
Plus, via Who Sucks, a little bonus for the Summer of Simpsons:
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