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UPDATE: Kill Screen at IBM’s dev@Pulse now to include Cliff Bleszinski, Dan Connors
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Meet the John Williams to Tim Schafer’s Spielberg.
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The strange etymology of the word "joystick"
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Hide and go seek-and-destroy.