quoted:
===

Players take target practice on Sharon, Israeli leaders
The terrorist group Hezbollah, backed by Iran and based in southern Lebanon, has begun marketing a computer game simulating attacks on Israeli soldiers and allowing target practice using Israeli officials such as Prime Minister Ariel Sharon.

The game, "Special Force," took two years of development by the Hezbollah Central Internet Bureau, according to a report today in Lebanon's Daily Star.

According to the report, the game, which hit the market two weeks ago, places players in different stages of Hezbollah operations against the Jewish state. Players face the same conditions as Hezbollah terrorists, including geographic locations, mines, the number of Israeli troops and even the weather conditions. Special Force also offers a training simulation, where players can practice their shooting skills on targets such as Sharon and other Israeli political and military figures.

On the cover of the game's box, a message to users says "the designers of Special Force are very proud to provide you with this special product, which embodies objectively the defeat of the Israeli enemy and the heroic actions taken by heroes of the Islamic Resistance in Lebanon." It adds: "Be a partner in the victory. Fight, resist and destroy your enemy in the game of force and victory."

What platform is this game?

Now we got the US Army and Hezbollah producing video games. What a surreal world we live in..

WorldNetDaily: Hezbollah's new computer game

... The next time you see a strange street sign in your neighborhood, it might just be a prop in someone else's entertainment, and the next Google search results page you pull down might contain a link to a node in the L3 universe. That's the thing about games without frontiers. You never really know when you're playing.

Geeks Without Borders, by Steven Johnson

] Computer games are good for you, say researchers who
] studied the complex social interactions in the popular
] shoot-em-up Counter-Strike.

BBC NEWS | Technology | Gaming 'is good for you'

] Gary Kasparov achieved a psychologically important draw
] against his computer opponent Deep Junior in the second
] game of their six-round match on Tuesday.
] Playing black, the former world champion forced Deep
] Junior into a draw by sacrificing a strong piece for
] better tactical position. But observers said Deep
] Junior's performance improved, compared to the first game
] in which Kasparov won easily.

Drawn chess game lifts Kasparov

] World chess champion Garry Kasparov defeated computerized
] challenger Deep Junior on Sunday in the first of six
] games pitting human wit against computer logic.

Awesome! Go Kasparov!

Kasparov 1, chess computer 0

Something new and fun to add to my already overloaded lust for RC toys. Make sure you check out the Quicktime videos.

http://www.rctoys.com/draganflyer3.php

Apple Whirlygig

You could call it Classic Console.

Proposed Set-Top MAME Emulation Console

flynn23 wrote:
] These are so cool! They are tiny RC tanks that can shoot at
] each other via infrared. They have real working treads (no
] wheels), they recoil when they fire, and they spin around and
] flash when hit. The controllers keep up with the number of
] hits and allow you to play different games. You can have up to
] four tanks fighting at once – you assign each one a different
] ID. They aren’t officially available in the US yet, so you
] have to buy them on eBay or from an international retailer
] (~$50). Internally they are very similar to Bit Char-G
] Japanese RC cars, which are also quite cool.
]
]
]
] http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=1790544656
]
]
]
] Here’s a little FAQ about them…
]
]
]
] http://tinyrc.com/forums/showthread.php?s=f4f055ef074f883ea2b3
] 1f7921661c80&threadid=1251

Those are so cool. I'm going to have to buy one! Let the games begin!

RE: All I want for xmas is to blow you up