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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 fundamental thing about video games that excites me is the ability to simulate complexity, to characterize systems and how they behave,” said Ian Bogost, Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies in Digital Media in the School of Literature, Communication, and Culture.
Bogost's ideas about newsgames (a term he coined) inform many examples of games being used as journalism, such as Wired.com's 2009 game Cutthroat Capitalism, which explores the complicated world of a Somali pirate. Source: The Boston Globe: July 3, 2011.
