America's Army Announces New Honor Program and Second Group of Preferred Providers
Westlake Village, Calif., and West Point, NY August 23, 2005 - Pragmatic Solutions, Inc. and the U.S. Army announced today that a second group of Preferred Providers have joined companies listed at www.aahonor.com to supply Honor Services to the more than 5.5 million registered users of the America's Army PC game community. Honor points form the basis of America's Army's unique scoring and rewards system. It is modeled after the Army values of Loyalty, Duty, Respect, Selfless-Service, Honor, Integrity and Personal Courage.
As a character progresses throughout the game, Honor levels increase and decrease based upon actions and performance. Honor earnings increase for choosing to be a leader during the match (squad leader, team leader), successfully accomplishing the team's goals or objectives, winning a mission, and avoiding ROE (Rules of Engagement) violations.
By playing on official servers offered by a group of Preferred Providers or enabling Honor services on their existing servers, players can gain Honor points while playing the America's Army game. This second group of Preferred Providers was chosen for their commitment to America's Army including their dedication to support and first-rate customer service. The new Preferred Providers and their Points of Presence (POP) locations are:
- Defcon24 - Germany
- GoAmericasArmy.com - Ashburn, VA, Dallas, TX, San Jose, CA, London, UK, Amsterdam, NL
- SeeMePlayMe - San Jose, CA, Dallas, TX, Austin, TX, Atlanta, GA, Virginia, Ohio and coming soon UK and Washington.
The previously announced group of providers includes:
- Clanservers.com - NJ/NY, Dallas, Chicago, LA, Atlanta, Seattle, London, Amsterdam
- GameDaemons - Seattle, WA, San Jose, CA, Los Angeles, CA, Dallas, TX, Chicago, IL, Atlanta, GA, Washington D.C., New York, NY, London, UK
- Gamehosters - Ashburn, VA, Los Angeles, CA
- InfraBasic - Korea
The Preferred Provider partner network will broaden the Points of Presence that the America's Army community currently reaches to provide additional bandwidth in the United States as well as the UK, Amsterdam and Korea. Announcements of additional locations will be announced soon.
Additional information on America's Army, Honor and the Preferred Providers can be found at www.aahonor.com.
About Pragmatic Solutions, Inc.
Pragmatic Solutions, Inc. develops software. A company that knows no bounds when it comes to the application it's asked to develop, its team members immerse themselves into building a solid framework that then builds upon itself, layer by layer to achieve the necessary objectives. Pragmatic Solutions, Inc. blends superior talent, original thinking and a large dose of common sense. It doesn't allow itself to think in terms of simply completing a project, but evolving it. Through valued feedback by both customer and consumer, it commits its resources to constantly finding a better way. This approach, fundamental to the way each developer works, has contributed to Pragmatic Solutions, Inc. proudly becoming an America's Army technology partner. To find out more about Pragmatic Solutions, Inc., visit www.pr-sol.com. To find out more about the America's Army Honor Program, visit www.aahonor.com.
About the America's Army Game
America's Army was designed and developed to use online game technology as a virtual portal through which young Americans can explore Soldiering in the U.S. Army. In America's Army players can explore and dominate challenges ranging from basic training to Special Forces Assessment and Selection to Special Forces Qualification Course. They can join various elite Army units and see the power of Army teamwork, values and technology. One of the top online action games on the Internet, America's Army has more than 5.5 million registered players who have completed over 94 million hours virtually exploring the Soldiering in the game.
America's Army is rated T for Teen and is available as a free CD at local Army Recruiting stations, ROTC Detachments and Army events, and can also be downloaded from various partners listed on the www.americasarmy.com site.
About Clanservers.com
Clanservers.com provides top notch game servers with locations around the world. Clanservers.com prides their success on an all Tier 1 global network infrastructure located in all major areas of the US as well as in Europe. Clanservers.com also provides a fully customizable Clan Panel which allows every customer to have full control over their game server subscriptions. With features such as Instant Game Setup, Free Voice servers, Free Web hosting, Free Location Switching, and True 24/7 Live technical support, Clanservers.com offers everything any Clan needs to Frag, not Lag. For more information on Clanservers.com, please visit www.clanservers.com.
About Defcon24
Defcon24 offers high performance servers and hosting, specially for the Game Community. Our network architecture gives you the lowest ping rates, featuring our Dual Xeon CPU Servers and Blade Technologies. Defcon24, the New Generation of Online Gaming. For more information on Defcon24, please visit www.defcon24.com.
About GameDaemons
GameDaemons provides high performance game server hosting for competitive online teams throughout the United States. Founded in 2001, GameDaemons was built around a solid foundation and has provided fast, stable, low latency servers since its inception. GameDaemons was also the first game server provider to evolve a complete management system with a white label option complete with back-office and billing integration called Game Development Extensions (GDX). With professional support unmatched technical expertise for the most popular games, GameDaemons is the solution for serious online games. GameDaemons is a wholly owned subsidiary of Speakeasy. For more information on GameDaemons, please visit www.gamedaemons.net.
About Gamehosters
While Honor servers can be obtained from a variety of web hosting companies, Gamehosters.com is the only internet technology company selected by The United States Army to host the America's Army Honor database and Virtual Community. In order to maintain Honor compliance, all Honor servers from all providers must connect to the GameHosters.com parent company Carpathia Hosting's infrastructure. As a key participant in the delivery of the America's Army game to the public, GameHosters.com's interest in offering America's Army game servers to the public is exclusively to further fund the development of the game, network and sever control panel. GameHosters.com customers are on the cutting edge of technology providing valuable input to the GameHosters.com engineers that allow for the continual development of the gaming network, hardware platforms and control panels. Play our demo server now to see the difference for yourself 66.197.126.64:1716. For more information on GameHosters.com, please visit www.gamehosters.com.
About GoAmericasArmy.com
GOAA, with its 3 years of experience providing high speed server rental services for America’s Army, is recognized as an industry leader in game server technology. We utilize only high speed enterprise servers and premium bandwidth along with our own proprietary technology to ensure you the fastest, lag free experience possible! Included in all our server rentals is an Automated Manager Interface and other exciting server rental tools including free VoIP Combat Net Radio (CNR) and anti-cheat technology, GOAA Server Guard! For more information on GOAA, please visit www.goaa.net (or www.goamericasarmy.com).
About InfraBasic
InfraBasic manages cross border technology product and business launches in Asia and the U.S. After identifying promising technologies in one market, InfraBasic creates model operations in other untapped, cross border markets. InfraBasic manages the entire process of the launch, from strategic planning, corporate structuring, licensing, and raising capital to hands-on management of marketing and operations. Founded in 1991, InfraBasic is based in New York, and has offices in Seoul and soon in Beijing and Japan. The Korean local web site is www.AAonline.co.kr.
About SeeMePlayMe
SeeMePlayMe has been a trusted download, installation, and distribution partner of America's Army for over two years. SeeMePlayMe has hosted hundreds of tournaments, game servers, and voice events for Americas Army during this time. Their state of the art game management system allows you to launch multiple games in multiple locations with one single account. SeeMePlayMe has a reputation for using nothing but the best when it comes to server equipment and bandwidth. They are truly the future of gaming as we know it. For more information on SeeMePlayMe, please visit www.seemeplayme.com.
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Robert Brown
Pragmatic Solutions, Inc.
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Westlake Village, CA 91361
Phone: (818) 970-9104
E-mail: rob@pr-sol.com
