Here is the article straight from military.com:

Feb 12, 2009

Silver Spring, Md. – The America’s Army PC game, which lets players explore Soldiering, has been recognized with five records in the upcoming Guinness World Records 2009: Gamer’s Edition.

The second installment of the “Gamer’s Bible,” began hitting book-store shelves Feb. 4, featuring the definitive collection of video game records, facts and trivia. The first edition of Guinness World Records Gamer’s Edition was published in February 2008, and received critical accolades from gaming industry reviewers.

Guinness World Records is the universally recognized authority on record-breaking achievement. First published in 1955, the annual Guinness World Records book is published in more than 100 countries and 25 languages and is one of the highest-selling books under copyright of all time with more than 3 million copies sold annually across the globe.

In this year’s Gamer’s Edition, the America’s Army PC game received awards in the following categories:

• Largest Virtual Army — In January 2007, America’s Army recruited its 8 millionth registered user; at the same time, the actual U.S. Army had just 519,472 Soldiers on active duty. This makes the virtual America’s Army 15 times larger than the real thing. Today the game has more than 9.7 million registered users.

• Most Downloaded War Video Game — According to official estimates, America’s Army, in all its various iterations, has been downloaded more than 42.6 million times. It is also the most downloaded game from Fileplanet.com, itself one of the most popular gaming download sites on the Internet. The most recent version of the game was downloaded almost 2.4 million times between January and July 2008.

• Most Hours Spent Playing a Free Online Shooter — According to the U.S. Army, as of August 2008, gamers have spent more than 230.9 million hours playing the PC version of America’s Army. Gamers from more than 60 countries have played America’s Army since it was launched in 2002.

• Earliest Military Website to Support a Video Game — The Web site americasarmy.com is the first military Web site to support a video game series. America’s Army is also the first multi-platform game to receive a government-licensed trademark.

• Largest Traveling Game Simulator — The Virtual Army Experience is a highly modified version of America’s Army that includes six life-size vehicles surrounded by multiple flat screens, with room for up to 50 participants. Mounted in the vehicles are modified light-gun weapons. The teams inside each vehicle, which shakes in reaction to nearby explosions, are tasked to drive supplies to a beleaguered group of aid workers in dangerous territory. The exhibit takes up 19,500 square feet.

The U.S. Army recently announced the upcoming America’s Army 3 game will be released later this year. AA3 will be rated T for Teen by the Entertainment Software Rating Board. AA3 will use the state-of-the-art Unreal Engine 3. America’s Army game developers promise to bring the most popular trademark gameplay features from the previous versions to an all new level in AA3.

Highlights of AA3 include authentic weapons and technologies, realistic training and exciting gameplay missions. AA3 will provide players new insights into the Army and Soldiering, officials said, adding it will make the game easier to play, easier to install and easier to download.

Now that you have soaked up all the Muggs from your local stores around town or your favorite internet toy-world, you are probably wondering what the next installment of the Muggs line is going to be.  Well guess what, obviously Hasbro is wondering the same thing.  They have run out of ideas for the moment and are so back ordered on the previous releases that they cannot put out sheeot.

BUT HAVE NO FEAR!

Yes boys and girls soon you can have your new Mighty Mugg waiting for you…

No this is not Casper the Friendly Ghost.  This is a blank Mugg.  Oh and lets not forget about…

Yup.  It is coming in black as well.

Do I really need to go into all the details as to what is going to happen to these “blank” Muggs.

Come on man.  People are going to be pasting their faces on them, their girlfriends faces, their lover (whether boy or girl), the damn dog or cat, the armadillo next door, the serial rapist down the street, some will be naked, some art freak will just go crazy, some kid in Minnesota on Prozac will cut its head off, they will be having blank sex, be totally anatomically incorrect and some jack ass will just write a word on the face.

Do you see where I am going with this?

I think this is totally fucking retarded and I do not see the point.  These are useless.  You damn knuckleheads are just gonna fuck up a really cool thing.  Now I do not blame you.  I blame Hasbro for being so lame and not coming out with another really cool line of Muggs (really you could not think of anything?  What about the Thundercats?).

Now if you really wanted to be creative and you had some expendable cash.  Go buy 1,000 white and 1,000 black and just randomly place them around your house.  Do not paint them, just leave them blank.  Put them in various places all around the house like they are just living with you.

PSYCHO!  Yup, that is the point.  It will guarantee that you will never get laid or have another visitor in your CASA again.

If you do not believe me and decide to paint yours, you will have the same result as the line above.

I PROMISE!

Sounds pretty cool, I think I will tune in.

What I tuned into was one of the BEST fucking WWII movies that I have ever seen.  Sure we have all the greats like Schindler’s List, Saving Private Ryan, The Big Red One, What About Bob as well as others, but Der Untergang (Downfall), was probably the best depiction of what is actually going on with Hitler. 

Now I can go on and on for days and talk about Adolph Hitler.  I really do not think that I want to open another can of shit storm, so let me just say this; do I like what the guy did?  FUCK NO!  Do I think he was a great leader?  I think the guy came into a country that was on the verge of a meltdown and he brought it back to life but in a really fucked up direction. 

Enough of the Germany Hitler era politics. 

Back to the movie.

You get a chance to see Hitler in action and even in the last few days of the Hitler regime, he still had his generals by the balls.  There is one scene in the movie where Hitler is pissed off that they have not manned an artillery post.  His general tells him that it has been occupied by the Allies and Hitler almost blows a fucking gasket because he cannot believe that no one is manning that hill.  He basically anal rapes his generals with his mouth belittling them to ass cheese.

Then we get down to the final hours.

This is where the movie really gets fucked up.  You will have the most mixed emotions watching these last few scenes in this movie.  One moment (even though I knew what was going to happen) I was sitting there going “no man don’t do it” and the next I was fucking pissed off out of my mind that they got to give up that easy.  Lets just hope that the ones that were captured and were hauled off to jail to live out a life sentence got to ENJOY the luxuries of a life term.

“Pick up the soap little bitch!”

Here is an unusual deleted scene from the movie…

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And another by the GREAT Mel Brooks…

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Rod my brother you did a good deed.  You took one for the “brethren team” and it paid off by getting one of our fellow men some pleasure town.

Hats off to you.

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