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Majoring in video games

Colleges retool their curricula to accommodate students aspiring to enter the field.

The Thukrals wanted their son, Dhruv, to go into nanotechnology. So when he told them he'd rather be a video game developer he might as well have said he wanted to join the circus. CLICK HERE FOR A BRIEF HISTORY OF VIDEO GAMES

"Are you serious?" they asked.

He was. The 21-year-old USC graduate student proved it by switching the focus of his computer science doctorate from a field known...

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