Treating Trauma with Games

For soldiers struggling with memories of their combat time in Iraq, USC Centers for Creative Technologies psychologist Skip Rizzo has concocted an unusual prescription: a video game. Since last year, Rizzo has been developing a program that reconfigures the Xbox game...

Apollo tours Sill

Actor/producer Carl Weathers, best known for his portrayal of boxer Apollo Creed in the first four “Rocky” movies, toured the Joint Fires and Effects Trainer System at Fort Sill along with other USC ICT creative and senior administrative staff.

The Smell of War

I’m Army, Special Operations. My mission: to sneak up on a rebel training camp. If the intelligence is right—if the place is being operated by the enemy Tiger Brigade—then I’m supposed to plant a radio transmitter so that F-16 pilots can launch smart bombs directly to...

Serious Games

Saving the world—one game at a time. Some may scoff at the notion, but while gaming news in recent weeks has been bombarded with talk of legislation or hearings on violence against the GTAs of the world, there’s a genre of games that has its sights set on things like...