Wednesday, June 13, 2007

America's Army


For some reason, Blogger is only showing two editing icons in the editing bar. But they are "improving" the system again (Whenever I hear that someone is "improving" something and how this will be "so much better for me", I want to dive under a table. Because I know it won't be improved and it won't work out well for me). So no way to change the size of text or block quote or bold. They have keyboard shortcuts listed below, but I am boycotting them. End of rant.

Going to Vegas for the WSOP for a couple of weeks, but I wanted to give a quick note about America's Army (http://www.americasarmy.com/). They are coming out with the game on XBOX 360, according to a number of news outlets.
I don't play it because they discontinued MAC development and only update for PCs.

"The game will feature a multiplayer component for Xbox Live that will include eight maps developed by Red Storm Entertainment. True Soldiers will utilize the Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Warfighter 2 game engine." - From Punch Jump (http://news.punchjump.com/article.php?id=4323)

Previous installments of the game (download and online play) are free because it is funded by U.S. tax dollars. Whether the U.S. should be using tax dollars to fund supporting and development of a video game is another issue for another time.

But I wonder if this will be the first truly free game for the XBOX and how will it be distributed.

Memo to America's Army: If you are going to develop a game with tax dollars, then make it accessible to everyone. Not just PC people. Americans use MACs too.

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