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Interview: Microsoft Game Studios' Phil Spencer
If given the choice of becoming a (presumably) anthropomorphic vegetable, Phil Spencer would opt for an eggplant. Sure, we spoke to the confident head of Microsoft Game Studios about other things -- Halo , Project Natal , Fable , Crackdown , the Xbox 360's successor, blah blah blah -- but ...
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Interview with Phil Spencer at Joystiq
HBO — Joystiq published an interview with Phil Spencer, head of Microsoft Game Studios; he holds forth on many subjects, but Halo is a big one. (It doesn't get mentioned until about a third of the way into the article, so if you're not interested in Natal, be patient.) Thanks to Mike Smith for making me take a second look.(Louis Wu 13:23:11 +0000)

Interview with Phil Spencer at Joystiq
My Halo News.com — Joystiq published an interview with Phil Spencer, head of Microsoft Game Studios; he holds forth on many subjects, but Halo is a big one. (It doesn't get mentioned until about a third of the way into the article, so if you're not interested in Natal, be patient.) Thanks to Mike Smith for making me take a second look.(Louis Wu 13:23:11 UTC) ...

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