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Military
2005-02-09

"U.S. Army game developers are in the process of creating a statistics-tracking system that can tell how much time a player spends online, how many kills he's made, which battlefields he's best at, how many kills he averages an hour and similar minutiae. "America's Army" isn't merely a game, recruiting device or a public-relations tool, though it is certainly all of those things. It's also a military aptitude tester. And it was designed that way from the start."

-- Gary Webb article

(Note that the author was killed shortly after this article was published.)