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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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Ian Bogost, Associate Professor in the School of Literature, Communication, and Culture, and Director of Graduate Studies in Digital Media, took part in the Inventing the Future of Games Symposium hosted by UC-Santa Cruz's Center for Games and Playable Media. Bogost spoke of a future "in which games are as ubiquitous and ordinary as photographs, and used for as many purposes." Games as advertising is not a new thing by any means (see Burger King’s Sneak King), but Bogost brought up an even more banal possible usage: airline safety. Source: Santa Cruz News, June 29, 2011
