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A number of health journals have started reporting on a study out of Oxford where subjects suffered less flashbacks the week after watching a terrifying movie if they played Tetris immediately after the viewing. That's right, Tetris is a potential cure for post-traumatic stress disorder.

Continuing our discussion from yesterday, 1UP reports that Graham Joyce has agreed to write the story for Doom 4. For those unfamiliar with his work, Joyce is a British author who has received many awards, including the British Fantasy Award, Imaginaire Award and the World Fantasy Award. Did I mention that he's British?

Few days give such a clear view of how vast the video game landscape has become as today. First up, the Writers' Guild of America for 2008's announced its nominees best game. The nominees include a number of franchise pieces like Command and Conquer: Red Alert 3, Fallout 3, Star Wars: the Force Unleashed, and Tomb Raider: Underworld.

CNN ran an article this week on the personality types of entrepreneurs. You know, those who might sign up for Accelerator looking for their idea to become the next Twitter.

You know a great idea when it starts popping up everywhere you look. Take the idea of low or no code game design as a classic example. Microsoft has announced Kodu an upcoming application for the Xbox 360 that will allow users to design their own basic games with little to no programming. USAToday reports that Kodu uses image-based coding to bring to life a variety of characters and objects.

Stanford professor, digital copyright reform activist, and SXSW alum Lawrence Lessig popped into my television screen last night to take on Stephen Colbert.

The Hearst Corporation, via subsidiary UGO, has acquired 1UP in a deal announced yesterday. Lots of competing voices talking about this move, but you can read the UGO announcement and the thoughts of 1UP editor Sam Kennedy, respectively.

It's a little cold in Austin, but we're warming ourselves with reflections upon last night's Fiesta Bowl. In that championship spirit, thought some might like to know that a new video game has the Eye of the Tiger when it comes to best-selling console game of all-time.

Writer, activist, and all-around Web hero Jon Lebkowsky sat down with SXSW for the New Year to discuss what panels have him excited for March.

SXSW: So, first lead us through what you'll be doing at SXSW this year? Who are your fellow panelists and what topics have you excited?

Jonathan Zittrain is the author of "The Future of the Internet -- and to How Stop It" and has been a professor at the Harvard Law School and the University of Oxford. Scheduled for Saturday, March 14, his SXSW presentation will cover how to keep Internet innovation alive in the face of ever-tightening content controls.