How interesting.

You know, I saw an MI6 ad -- alongside ads from think tanks, university programs, and the like -- in a recent issue of Foreign Affairs. But that is an infinitely more relevant place to advertise than Xbox Live.

I just don't understand what GCHQ is expecting to find from the morass of overweight, cheeto-inhaling 14-year-olds-who-love-to-talk-smack that is Xbox Live. Are they hoping people will have played Splinter Cell and thought that it was pretty cool?

And why not advertise on the PS3 as well?

I can see the connection here, the thought processes that go along with gameplaying, the out of the box thinking that can be engendered by a logical approach to games (not, perhaps, so much the trigger-finger reflexes, but the kind of thinking that finds ways to beat problems that the devs may not have thought of... You *know* you're seen these things show up in playtesting, where the player jinks right instead of left and gets the drop on the baddie before it aggros). I think they're going to have a high ratio of unqualified applicants, but they may reach some people they might otherwise have missed.