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Video games used in recruitment
Gamers become the new blood of GCHQ?
Beginning next month, UK intelligence agencies are placing ads in a series of espionage adventures--including Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell Double Agent--in the hope of attracting new recruits, reports The Times.
Government Communications Headquarters, which is responsible for surveillance intelligence work, is hoping that virtual spying might give gamers a taste for the real thing.
A spokesperson for GCHQ said, "We find increasingly we have to use less conventional means of attracting people...to go beyond glossy brochures and milk-round stalls."
GCHQ is not the only intelligence agency to resort to unconventional means to nab recruits. Recently MI5 has been advertising in places, such as The Guardian newspaper, Cosmopolitan women's magazine, and the sides of London buses. However, this is the first time an intelligence agency is known to have used video games as a recruiting ground
Posted by
on 10/20 at 04:11 AM
This is going to be funny. Oh well. For Queen and country, I suppose.
· Posted by
on 10/21 at 10:04 AM
video games being used for recruitment isnt anything new. the us army developed an mmo fps game (Americas Army) that is free for download and has been around for years. they have recruitment ads all over it.
· Posted by
on 10/28 at 06:12 PM
"However, this is the first time an intelligence agency is known to have used video games as a recruiting ground" Apparently you didn't read. He was targeting Intelligence Agencies. Not the Military. And on top of that, this is about England, not America.
· Posted by
on 10/30 at 11:53 AM
They should have put "However, this is the first time a non-military, intelligence agency based in UK is known to have used video games as a recruiting ground"
Doesnt sound so groundbreaking anymore now does it?
At any rate, it wont work. People who wanna enlist will do it without playing the game. And how many member of Intelligence agencies crawl around dark places at night, wearing tight spandex, and a night vision google on their head? Pointless waste of money.
· Posted by
on 10/31 at 04:11 PM
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