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Well, happy 4th, everybody, and it's time to wrap up a boatload of links from earlier last week (and previous!) before the new set start spooling in, including a neat NowGamer piece on Eugene Jarvis and the making of Defender.

Also in here - 2D Boy interviewed, exercise games examined, Edge magazine's pixel poster artist quizzed, Guitar Hero examined in an academic stylee, Jon Blow's latest ruminations, and rather more things besides.

Dance is a mysterious art:

The Making Of Defender | NowGamer

'In these enlightened times, we’ve seen hundreds of side-scrolling shooters, but when Defender appeared, it was so revolutionary, so different, and had such complex controls that many assumed it would flop.'

A Twist in the Tale | Resolution | Diverse commentary on videogames

'But even something like BioShock, heralded for its big reveal, isn’t really defined by tha