Why Games Matter Blog - Breaking the Link Between Games and Guns

From hundreds of Humvees and Mine-Resistant Ambush-Protected Vehicles (MRAPs) to lakhs of anti-tank missiles and machine guns, US troops deployed in Afghanistan will leave behind all their war-fighting equipment when they leave the country as part ...

Available only to subscribers. SUBSCRIBE TODAY ARTICLE AUDIO TYPE SIZE Small Medium Large POST TO FACEBOOK POST POST TO TWITTER POST A year ago this month, Stanford Law School hosted a little-noticed meeting that may help decide the future of free ...

In December 1944, the Nazis looked like a spent force: The U.S. and its allies had pushed Hitler's armies across France in the fight to liberate Europe from German occupation. The Allies were so confident that the Forest of Ardennes, near the front ...

Forget guns and missiles, language may be the most powerful weapon in the human repertoire. It can be found in music and art, in politics and prayer, and now as the focal point for an exciting exhibition in Dortmund. Make a promise or murmur the ...

George Mazzant at a gun show. At the GunRunners Gun Show outside Atlanta, the line stretches out the door and around the corner. Dozens of people are waiting, ready to fork over big bucks for everything from pistols to high capacity magazines. Here, ...

Most helicopters are designed to either carry a lot of cargo at the expense of manoeuvrability — like the Chinook — or be quick and nimble while sacrificing armament and transport capabilities, like the Huey. Russia's Mi-24 HIND multi-mission ...

Marines with Bridge Companies A, B and C, 6th Engineer Support Battalion pose atop a medium girder bridge during a training exercise here, June 11. These Marines worked together late into the night in order to complete the project in a single day.

I know exactly what youre thinking. I thought it, too. Activision showed us the underwater firefight sequence from their incoming first-person shooter/blockbuster, Call of Duty: Ghosts, at a special pre-E3 event last month. After watching a ...

Marines from Combat Logistics Battalion 6, 2nd Marine Logistics Group, fire automatic weapons during CLB-6's crew-served weapons range at Twentynine Palms, Calif., May 14, 2013. The Marines qualified on multiple automatic weapons to include the ...