"Don't call it a war game", Pentagon officials were saying - a reflection perhaps of the sensitivities surrounding Nato at the moment.
Let's talk about an IPO for something other than a farm game you play or a war between pigs and birds on your iPad.
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But after a bright start the game quickly became more a war of attrition.
Take Gears of War, a game critics love to say people play for the action, not the story.
This was made clear during a high-level war game at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government earlier this month.
While there are those who want to turn war into a video game, someone needs to have the decency to pull the plug.
For instance, in a war-themed video game, a PC-user might be executing attacks, while another player on his iPhone at the same time might be coordinating communications between the virtual fighting units.
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For years the Army's annual computer-simulated war game has focused on fighting a major war.
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The controversy started when the game was first announced, and people began murmuring about its apparent similarities to Day Z, a popular zombie mod of the war game ARMA II.
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The War Z has been a very controversial game, even before its disastrous launch on Steam earlier this year.
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The War Z has been a controversial zombie game since its inception.
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On the sidewalk during the long vacation months we played a new game called "I Declare War, " using a cheap rubber ball and a piece of chalk.
Artillery could be a game-changer in the war, significantly improving the ability of the army to secure ground, and replacing international air power that will soon not be available.
Meier said there are many concepts that work really well in a computer game, like fog of war -- not being able to see all the pieces on the board until your units are within range of enemy units.
The two, both aged under 18, were participating in a lunchtime game of tug-of-war at South El Monte High School near Los Angeles on Monday.
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War of the Roses is a terrifically fun game, but with the balancing issues, at-times clunky combat mechanics, and lack of a single-player campaign, it falls short of perfection.
But now that it has surfaced, the owl could be a game-changer in the water war between the U.S. Forest Service and the Wild West city made famous by the 30-second gunfight at the O.
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The package includes a standard copy of "Gears of War 3, " a wired headset, plus a download token for bonus game content including the Infected Omen Weapon Pack and the Adam Fenix character for use in multiplayer.
Developed by the Treyarch game studio, Black Ops is a first-person shooter game that has players undertake missions and follow a storyline set during the Cold War.
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If I wanted to play a Si-fi game I would play Gears of War or Halo!
It seems that the game had locked itself into a 1700-year war.
When Moore made his high school football team, Mama, a housewife, and Daddy, a carpenter and World War II veteran, showed up for every game.
Britain played a sometimes confusing game here, going back to the earlier Japanese war with the Russian czar.
The game has changed from a battle of devices to a war of ecosystems and competitive ecosystems are gaining momentum and share.
So, perhaps to show that it is giving space its due, the Air Force held its first space war game here, and even invited reporters inside for a few hours.
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Which should come as little surprise to anyone familiar with game theory, a tool used to analyse the cold war's arms race and a favourite, perhaps not coincidentally, of Europe's trade commissioner, Pascal Lamy.
For this final season, Spartacus: War of the Damned has partnered with Ubisoft for a downloadable console fighting game, Spartacus Legends.
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Obama previously called the use of chemical weapons a "red line" and a "game-changer" for how the United States approaches the war.
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