US Army Video Games Office

As reported in Wired and Training and Simulation Journal, following the success of America's Army, the US Army's "Training and Doctrine Command’s (TRADOC) Project Office for Gaming, or TPO Gaming" is a new "... project office, just for building and deploying games."

63% of US play videogames

A new report from NPD claims that nearly two thirds of the population of the USA play video games.

"In terms of the number of gamers in the U.S. and the amount of time spent playing them, 63 percent of the U.S. population plays video games - defined as console and portable games, PC games, games on kid-oriented systems or games on devices like cell phones or iPods"