Joyride: NASA MMO and the Rhetoric of the Military Industrial Complex

How much “fun” will NASA’s much-touted Unreal 3-based MMO be when it is released next year? If the cap­tions to still images released on devel­oper Project Whitecard’s web­site are any indi­ca­tion, not much.

Here’s how they describe the Regolith Grinder (aka “The Taurus”):

“Con­tructed from an advanced smelt­ing process and lunar fac­tory, it is a general-purpose vehi­cle with a plow option.”

Maybe things are more excit­ing over near the Moon­base?

“The cen­tre of oper­a­tions for Moon­base Alpha, this inflat­able, rein­forced struc­ture is the core. Look at the scale of the exten­si­ble walk­way system!”

Noth­ing says “I can’t wait to play this” like “exten­si­ble walk­way system.”