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There is now a CONTENT FREEZE for Mercury while we switch to a new platform. It began on Friday, March 10 at 6pm and will end on Wednesday, March 15 at noon. No new content can be created during this time, but all material in the system as of the beginning of the freeze will be migrated to the new platform, including users and groups. Functionally the new site is identical to the old one. webteam@gatech.edu
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The medium of video games has come a long way in its (relatively) short history, and there are more people playing games in various forms than ever before, but if you ask Ian Bogost, game designer and professor of interactive computing at the Georgia Institute of Technology, the industry has yet to truly reach an inflection point where it's accepted without question across the globe in the way that film is.
Read the full article here: http://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2015-11-04-games-are-far-too-obsessed-with-technical-innovation-bogost
