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While you are waiting for the new CVGA room to open, relive your times spent in the old with this awesome panoramic PhotoSynth of the old CVGA room. (You'll need Microsoft's Silverlight extension installed in your browser.)

Today we began the process of moving the CVGA to its new location.

Here are a few pictures from Friday, the final day of the CVGA in its old location.

The eagle-eyed among you may have noticed at the end of Val's last Top Games post she mentions that the CVGA will be moving.It's true! The last day of the archive for the year will be this Friday, after which we will be closed while we move to our new location. In January we will re-open in room B474 of the Duderstadt Center (that's in the Lower Level—i.e. the Basement).

Here are the top ten games played in the archive last week. Don't forget to stop by this week and play away your end of semester blues! The archive will be open through Friday night, and then will be closed until next semester, where we'll open in our new location.

Here are the top ten games played in the archive last week. Call of Duty is beginning to take the stage, perhaps in anticipation of the archive getting its copy of Black Ops. It's not in yet, but it will almost certainly make the list again when we do get it.

As the creators of DLXS, we're quite impressed with the adaptation of Text Class by NLM/NIH to provide access to oral histories.

BBC News Europe: "Spain outrage over migrant bombing game: "Spain's main opposition party has provoked howls of outrage for producing a video game which invites players to bomb illegal immigrants.

A reminder that the CVGA closes at 4pm today, and is closed throughout the holiday weekend. We open again for regular business at Noon on Monday. Have a fun and safe holiday weekend!

Here are the top ten games played in the archive last week. Halo: Reach ties for first, even though it cracked towards the end of the week. Its one-month lifespan was pretty sad next to Fifa 10's long one, despite the fact that both games were so popular.