An email was sent announcing the newest updates to the American's Army Operations game planned for this week. The Airborne and Ranger training missions will be added, allowing you to practice proper parachute landings or train to become a Ranger. More info here. The download will be 60mb.

A new version of the America's Army Operations game has been released, adding a sniper school level to the game among other things. You can grab the 22mb Marksmanship upgrade if you already have the game installed. If you don't have the Recon version of America's Army, you can download the new version from FileShack as well.

The America's Army site has been updated, offering some info on the upcoming Marksmanship Pack for the Operations game. New missions as well as new features will be added. Thanks Blues News.

SimHQ is the latest site with an America's Army Q&A. Lt. Col E. Casey Wardynski of the US Army is on hand to answer questions.

XGR has posted two screenshots from America's Army Operations, showing off a new level from the game.

Looks like a new patch for the America Army Recon version is out already. Grab 1.01b from FileShack courtesy of Speakeasy. This patch fixes the registry key errors that so many people were getting.

As promised, the patch for the Recon version of America's Army Operations game has now been released. You can grab the 3mb upgrade from FileShack as always, courtesy of Speakeasy. For a list of changes go here, that readme will explain how to set up a dedicated server as well. If you don't have the original Recon version, you can grab the updated version from FileShack as well (thanks to Frans @ 3D Gamers for the merge tip). Would rather not download a 213mb file all at once? Then here is the file in five parts, you'll need to run the Army.bat file to merge the files together: Army.0 Army.1 Army.2 Army.3 Army.4 Army.bat

According to an update to the official America's Army website, a patch for the game will be released today. This patch fixes client and server-side flooding issues, removes the sniper rifle bug, adds an admin spectator mode, and adds "Community Game Server" support among other things.

America's Army executive producer Michael Capps has been interviewed on HomeLAN Fed. JCal asks him about the response to the Recon version, why they lacked a dedicated server package, issues they have found so far that will be resolved, gameplay adjustements and more.

The official America's Army website has been updated with some news of this free first person shooter. Tools to create servers will be released on Monday, and new missions are on the way, starting with a Sniper School level due out July 25.

XGR sends word of another America's Army audio interview tonight. Tonight at 8:30PM Central, Jack Buser from Dolby and Russ Shilling from the U.S. Navy will be talking about the game, the response to the Recon version and more.

According to this America's Army FAQ, a patch for the Recon version of the game will be out soon. Soon being in a few days. Thanks Blues News.

HomeLAN Fed has some news on an America's Army update. The developers are working on a patch which will allow people to create dedicated servers for the game, which is much needed as there aren't too many servers out there right now.

Looks like someone figured out how to hack up Americas Army and get a server running. It's not exactly simple but if you're comfy programming a VCR then this stuff prolly wont scare you off. Thanks NSASpook

Hope everyone is enjoying their holiday in the US. Americas Army Recon came out late last night as a bit of a surprise. By now a lot of people have made it through the training missions and are probably attempting some online play. Here's a thread for you guys to discuss the game being hot or not and all that fun. Oh and for those of you who havent grabbed it yet, some purty pictures and download link.

- Download from FileShack via Speakeasy
- View screenshots of the training missions
- View the official website
- View the original thread with some good tips
- Post your own comments in this thread

Gonna give the online play a shot myself some today. If anyone comes up with performance tweaks please drop them in the comments as I believe the default resolution and settings are kinda high.

Well I guess the US Army had to one-up the game developer community. In a land where things are consistently late, it looks like the America's Army: Operations demo just came out a bit early. You can grab the demo as always at FileShack courtesy of Speakeasy. I'm in the middle of some server maintenance though and wasnt really quite ready for this, so you'll probably experience a 10-25 second delay waiting for the download dialog to pop up. Sorry about that, the download should work fine though. Here's a bunch of screenshots taken by Maarten

- FileShack via Speakeasy
- FilePlanet mirror
- NVidia mirror
- Screenshots
- Official website

IMPORTANT NOTE: You will not be able to play this online until 2AM CDT. However, there are some single player training missions to play through before you go online to play anyways. Get those outa the way this evening. Thanks HomeLAN

XGR sends word of another audio interview tonight at 8:30PM Central. Tonight's interview will be with Paul Boyce, who will be talking about America's Army.

The 'Recon version' of Americas Army is slated for release tomorrow along with that American July 4th holiday. There are a couple of previews floating around to check out. Have a looksee at what's up at GameSpot or HomeLAN for some previews. There are also some shots over at XGR then an interview with the executive producer discussing the game.

Operations is primarily a squad-based multiplayer game not unlike Counter-Strike. You pick a team to play as, you select your primary weapon, and you try to eliminate the bad guys. But before you're allowed to go out on the battlefield, you, like every soldier, have to go through boot camp first. Unlike the real thing, however, doing so in Operations is a snap. You'll simply create an online persona by picking a unique handle and password, and then you'll participate in the first of several training sessions, this one for rifle marksmanship. Normally, this portion of training takes place between weeks three and five of boot camp, but you'll be able to complete it within a few minutes.

Maarten attempted to take some screenshots of the beta yesterday but ran in to some 'issues' and I've had the woman distracting me from any of that goofy game playing stuff the past couple of days. Will try to get something more to you guys about this game this evening for ya.

The America's Army website has been updated with the news that the Operations game (the first person action one) will be released July 4. Thanks StarHawk.