Very interesting article in the London’s Time newspaper this week, titled “Why Video Gamers Make the Best Spies”.

One of the UK’s intelligence services, called Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ), is breaking new recruiting ground in the spy world by running ads for new recruits inside computer games. The ads will appear in “Splinter Cell: Double Agent”, when the game is played either or PCs or on the Xbox 360, connected to the internet. All adrenaline-driven junkies of spy games know Double Agent – which stars an American spy who has “little time for polite niceties and even less for lies”, who works for Third Echelon, a fictional hush-hush unit of the US National Security Agency. GCHQ hopes to draw the technology-savvy, quick-on-the-keyboard gamers that could help them better eavesdrop on others and block other from eavesdropping on them. The catch is that these jobs are not quite 007-oriented – they mostly involve listening to feeds at the agency’s main post in small, unexciting UK town of Cheltenham. But, hey, it’s a start, and it could be YOUR chance to get paid for your gaming savvy. Your next step to apply for the job? Play DoubleAgent.