Proliferation of ingame advertising is one thing, but using said advertising to recruit spies is another. Government Communications Headquarters, a British intelligence agency, intends to do just that. Virtual billboards in Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell: Double Agent, will be used to seduce Xbox 360 and PC gamers into a life of surveillance and information gathering. Apparently, the recruits they are looking for are:

computer-savvy, technologically able, quick thinking…We find increasingly we have to use less conventional means of attracting people . . . to go beyond glossy brochures and milk-round stalls.

It’s amusing that they would assume people who enjoy taking part in virtual espionage actually have the balls to do the real thing - although its highly probable that those recruited will be crunching numbers and handling the technical side of intelligence-gathering.

via Kotaku

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