Army Targets Video Gamers

The military targeted video gamers with a 2015 recruitment campaign deemed “dark” and “aggressive”, according to in-house research. The Department of National Defence assembled focus groups to pre-screen the TV ads depicting guerrilla warfare with flash explosions, leaping paratroopers and “heavy breathing” sound effects: “You are preaching to the converted”.

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