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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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Atlanta, GA | Posted: April 21, 2010
On Games.com: "Georgia Tech professor and game researcher [LCC Professor] Ian Bogost tries to put his finger on why so many people seem so worried about Zynga and what their success represents for the game industry. "I have a liberal sense of what a game is. I do think, though, that the kind of experiences that [Zynga] are creating are more like [Skinner] boxes, like behaviorist experiments with rats. They're relying on creating these compulsions so people will want to come back and click on the bar. And so, in that respect, I fear those kinds of products." Bogost weighed in on the debate about social gaming and Zynga; detailed coverage of the issue is on CNET.
