{"id":96,"date":"2008-11-24T09:30:57","date_gmt":"2008-11-24T14:30:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/games\/?p=96"},"modified":"2013-09-26T14:51:58","modified_gmt":"2013-09-26T19:51:58","slug":"us-military-making-big-gaming-research-buy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/games\/2008\/11\/24\/us-military-making-big-gaming-research-buy\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. military making big gaming research buy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi, everyone.<\/p>\n<p>I come across these stories with some frequency, and Gene asked me to share them.<\/p>\n<p>Enjoy!<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;AH<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stripes.com\/article.asp?section=104&amp;article=59009\">&#8220;GRAFENW\u00d6HR, Germany <\/a>\u2014 The Army has created a video game unit and will invest $50 million over five years on games and gaming systems designed to prepare soldiers for combat.&#8221;<br \/>\n<\/br><br \/>\n<\/br><br \/>\n<\/br><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.crispygamer.com\/news\/index.php\/2008-11-21\/my-dinner-with-halpin\/\">In July 2006,<\/a> Hal Halpin founded the Entertainment Consumer Association, an advocacy group to champion consumer rights and issues. Since that time, the organization has done its part to give gamers a voice on a variety of issues and has gone out of its way to highlight \u2014 and with the help of its members \u2014 defeat unconstitutional state and federal anti-consumer legislation all over the United States.<\/p>\n<p>re:\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/games.slashdot.org\/games\/08\/11\/25\/0149238.shtml\">promoting compassion<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/games.slashdot.org\/games\/08\/11\/25\/0149238.shtml\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi, everyone. I come across these stories with some frequency, and Gene asked me to share them. Enjoy! &#8211;AH &#8220;GRAFENW\u00d6HR, Germany \u2014 The Army has created a video game unit and will invest $50 million over five years on games &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/games\/2008\/11\/24\/us-military-making-big-gaming-research-buy\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1821,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[113393],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-96","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archival"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1821"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=96"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":462,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96\/revisions\/462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}