American Forces Network’s Virtual World News
Posted Friday, February 9th, 2007, at 10:50 am Eastern by Mark Wallace
Who knew the American Forces Network (which I believe is an agency of the U.S. Department of Defense) had a weekly podcast called Virtual World News? It’s just a few minutes, and it’s really just games-related news, not specific to virtual worlds, but it was a surprising find. On reflection, of course, it’s not surprising at all. It’s not hard to imagine the members of our armed forces in Europe hankering after some good old-fashioned gaming news. This is not a phrase that would normally cross my lips, but: Go DoD!
TrackbackURL: http://www.3pointd.com/20070209/american-forces-networks-virtual-world-news/trackback/
Feeds
I don’t think this is a DoD site. They will usually have a .mil or .gov URL. It looks like it is owned by some group called MediaSpan. However, calling games by other names is common in the DoD. Virtual Worlds might be a better term for games in the conservative environment of the DoD. For example, the Marines call their game based trainers, Tactical Decision Makers, or TDMs.