Spike released a new teaser today for some mysterious game by 2K. No details were released but we were promised the full reveal during the VGAs on December 12.

Unfortunately for Spike, it looks like this trailer was already released. Four months ago in fact. 1Up caught  the original video which reveals this new game to be Spec Ops. For those of you that don't remember, Specs Ops was a war game for the original PlayStation, PC and Dreamcast. It was also complete crap.

The trailer does look interesting, but the name Spec Ops just brings up bad memories. How about you? Does this look good to any of you?

The Onion News Network got an exclusive look at the next Modern Warfare game. It's looking like it will be a lot more realistic as you'll be doing a bunch of boring ass sh*t throughout the game, just like in the real Army!

Modern Warfare 3 will have you talk to people, debate which actress is hotter and there's even going to missions set in America. Modern Warfare 3 will also hit the Wii with a 17 pound controller shaped like an M249 machine gun. Nothing says immersion like an oversized peripheral that's a waste of money!

Even though this is a spoof, you just know someone is going to make an M249 machine gun attachment for the Wii now.

[via dronkmunk's C blog]

This week sees the release of three new Call of Duty games across multiple platforms from Activision. This Wednesday is also Veterans Day here in America. To honor both occasions, Activision will be donating $1 million to create a non-profit organization that will assist soldiers with finding jobs and re-integration back into civilian life. The organization will be named Call of Duty Endowment (CODE) and a long list of retired veterans will be heading up the group. 

Bobby Kotick talked about the new organization and was quoted by the Washington Post saying "The joblessness rate that [veterans] should have should be far less than the national average, not more. How do you expect people to actually join the military if when they leave the military they can't integrate back into the free market they're supposed to be protecting?"

It's really great to see Activision giving back like this. It goes without saying that it can be a real b*tch coming back to normal life from duty and it doesn't help that the economy is in bad shape either. 

When you think of a contemporary urban warfare videogame, almost every one is going to think of, well, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare. That's an amazing game, setting the standard for contemporary shooters. The Wii version, exists, yes, and any game entering the Wii market is going to compete with that.

So what do you do? Well, Destineer hopes to enter the niche ofmodern warfare stylings with Marines: Modern Urban Combat. It's a game from a company who has worked with the American military to create training simulations, so this is really a child of professional training tools. How does it stand up in my hands-off preview? Hit the jump for my impressions.

Pro vs. GI Joe has partnered up with Activison to host the Activision Showdown competition. The competition brings together active duty troops with professional athletes as they play games like Guitar Hero and Call of Duty.

The Showdown starts next Friday at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. The Indiana National Guard stationed in Kuwait will be facing off against Nascar's Martin Truex Jr and Felix Sabates in some Guitar Hero Smash Hits. More information about the partnership can be found after the jump.

In other news, this actually has nothing to do with those other G.I. Joes, which is what I thought the press release was all about before actually reading it. Hence the joke in the headline. More importantly, who wants a body massage? I'm just a body massage machine GO! 

Players of Fallout 3 will no doubt draw some similarities between the conceptual design image above and the Pip-Boy 3000 so integral to the game. Working with HP Labs, the US Army has been developing a device to replace much of the equipment soldiers currently carry in their packs. Using an e-ink screen with the components stamped on to flexible plastic, the wrist-mounted display unit could replace field laptops, GPS units and radios as early as 2011.

Right now, the technology is only capable of outputting a monochrome image (just like the Pip-Boy) but it is expected that the device will have a color display by the time it is ready for deployment. It's currently undergoing field testing, but the tech seems to be durable. "You can strike these things with a mallet, and they just keep on working," claims HP's director of information surfaces, Carl Taussig.

As I'm sure is the case with a lot of sci-fi fans and tech nerds, I've long prayed for the day that I can have a computer on my wrist, however impractical it may be for my everyday needs. With devices like this in development, my dreams of having a big ass screen on my forearm seem just a little bit closer today.

My thanks to Veterans for Peace for giving me my favorite new term for 2008. Yes, the US army has been accused of "military pedophilia" after hosting a gaming tournament for teenagers, as protesters criticized the event for targeting youngsters.

The Army-sponsored tourney was held in Rancho Cordova, California on Saturday, and offered a chance to get to grips with the controversial America's Army game. The Veterans for Peace organization staged a protest, where member John Reiger claimed: "It's like giving candy to kids. It's sort of like military pedophilia in a way, preying on our young people."

Amusingly, the Army's response did little to make the affair sound less like a big pubescent gang bang: "The event is nothing more than an opportunity for people to become familiar with the Army." Oh yes ... very familiar.

Although the term "military pedophilia" is hilariously overboard, I quasi-agree with the stance that targeting young people like this is particularly insidious. I don't like it when the Church tries to coax kids through its doors with Halo nights, and I don't like it when the Army does the same. Kids should have a chance to get done with being kids before people start attempting to sway them toward life-altering decisions.

It's been a while since we poked fun at the silver-haired maniac known as Jack Thompson, but the videogame-obsessed protectobot of chilluns everywhere is making sure he's not forgotten. His plans for the new year involve a new target -- the United States Department of Defense. He's not just fighting games anymore, readers -- this is a man that can take on entire armies.

Thompson is going after the Defense Department for forming what he calls an "unholy alliance" with videogames. It's no secret that the military uses games as a recruitment tool, as America's Army has shown. Thompson has obviously started to believe that videogames are inherently evil creations forged in Satan's bric-a-brac shop and that the US DoD is now a malevolent force of darkness for daring to have very loose connections with this soul-fuelled engine of destruction.

In his latest rambling note, Thompson has lied that the Virginia Tech killer was a Counter-Strike enthusiast (it was later shown that Cho played nothing more violent than Sonic the Hedgehog) and makes vague allusions to "proof" of "long term immersion" in so-called "interactive violence." GamePolitics has the full barrel of mistruths and tarbrushing, and does such a great job of countering his wild claims that you really should check their post out.

While this is just another in a long line of the washed up old hack's pointless attention seeking, I wonder exactly how he expects the US Department of Defense to take him seriously. This is where I'd take glee from the fact that he's setting himself up to make some powerful enemies, but since Microsoft completely ignored his pathetic wailing, I doubt the military will care very much. This man is hilariously irrelevant outside of the very industry he hates.

For those of you old enough to recall Half-Life 2's original release, you'll remember how Steam -- Valve's downloadable content system -- absolutely ruined the entire thing for many thousands of people for almost a month after the official release date. Issues ranging from broken downloads to paranoid speculation on Valve's plans to sell personal information to the Nazis, Illuminati, space aliens, Francis Ford Coppola, etc. had many people predicting a quick death for the service. Of course, it didn't die, and has flourished into the sort of cash cow a father in India might offer up as his daughter's dowry.

Sadly, it looks like some kinks still exist, and they've all popped up simultaneously thanks to the release of Call of Duty 4. If you take a look at Valve's Steam forums, you see nothing but threads complaining about Steam and people's inability to actually play the thing. As is the usual Internet protocol, people have grown quite irate with Valve's inability to fix the issue within minutes of their complaint, and have taken to measures ranging from further whining to petty threats to (bizarre) conspiracy theories involving the Medal of Honor development team and hostage situations.

Any of you having issues with the system? We can't help you, but feel free to bitch about the situation in the comments.

[Jeremy, we're sending you a hat, but we'll need it back by Monday] 

According to Digital Battle info on the inevitable sequel to the Battlefield series -- Battlefield 3 -- has been leaked via mysterious tipster. According to the tip, the game is scheduled to hit stores late next year with a possible public beta this coming summer and the usual teaser trailers hitting your local Internets in January.

Of course, the list of features -- which you can find after the jump -- should be taken with a grain of salt until we get official confirmation from either EA or, let's say, Jesus Christ, but everything here looks pretty plausible. Unfortunately, its plausibility is directly proportional to just how similar everything sounds to previous Battlefield games. In fact, if you had read this list of features to me yesterday, I would have assumed you were talking about the futuristic Battlefield 2142, or my long-planned video game based on the Iran-Contra scandal Reaganocalypse: Hot Jungle, Cold Steel.

Hit the jump for a whole wad of theoretical features.

According to this piece on Gamepolitics -- the Daily Kos of the Mushroom Kingdom -- US military recruiters were recently found to be using ridiculously creepy creative tactics in order to get the youth of America interested in signing up for a tour of duty. It seem that during a recent Halo 2 tournament at a GameStop in Manchester, New Hampshire a large number of sub-18-year-old kiddies were turned away due to strict contest regulations (and the possiblity of hardcore teabagging action). Never one to turn away a chance at free bodies, the military recruiters apparently set up a similar event of their own nearby and ushered the crestfallen kids into their foreboding van gaming tourney.

Hit the jump for the full deets.