U.S. Army funded game ‘America’s Army’ to shut down after 20 years
nme.comAmerica’s Army: Proving Grounds – a free-to-play military shooter made by the U.S. Army in an effort to assist in recruitment – is shutting down after 20 years.With the first entry releasing in 2002, America’s Army is funded and developed by the U.S.
Army and takes the team-based tactical shooter into a more realistic direction. The game was originally conceived by Colonel Casey Wardynski, the U.S.
Army’s chief economist in 1999.“It’s designed to give [players] an inside view on the very fundamentals of being a soldier, and it’s also designed to give them a sense of self-efficacy, that they can do it,” Wardynski told The Washington Post in 2005 (via Vice).Now America’s Army: Proving Grounds will shut down on May 5, 2022 according to a developer forum post.“The free-to-play America’s Army PC Game represented the first large-scale use of game technology by the U.S.
government as a platform for strategic communication and recruitment,” read the post, “and the first use of game technology in support of U.S.
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