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From the Rubik’s Cube to Ecco the Dolphin: meet the programmers from Hungary and former Comecon countries who helped shape a generation of video games By now, there’s a library’s...
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In a China racing toward the future one reluctant young shaman fights to honour the ancient spirits that refuse to let him go Ah Lei seems to be used to...
