Q&A: Virtual Heroes Training Real Heroes

By Tor Thorsen, GameSpot

10/3/08

PSPs teaching Hilton hoteliers? Silent Hill artists training Special Forces with RPGs? Grand Theft Auto designers helping police and paramedics? It's all in a day's work for CEO Jerry Heneghan's cutting-edge company.

Next time you check into a Hilton hotel, you may see one of the employees attentively playing a PlayStation Portable. However, there's a good chance that the staffer isn't just sneaking some God of War: Chains of Olympus on company time. The hotel giant has signed on to a new program, HGI Ultimate Team Play, to use a custom-designed PSP game to teach its employees about the finer points of the hospitality trade.