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people type-people status-publish has-post-thumbnail hentry"><header class="vgc-object__header"><div class="vgc-object__header-image"><div class="bytes-image fixtp"><figure class="bytes-image__container"><img alt="Emil Pagliarulo" class="bytes-image__img bytes-image__img--crop-center fixvh lazyload" src="/web/20211107051743im_/https://www.videogameschronicle.com/files/2019/04/Emil-Pagliarulo-320x320.jpg" data-srcset="/web/20211107051743im_/https://www.videogameschronicle.com/files/2019/04/Emil-Pagliarulo-320x320.jpg 320w, /web/20211107051743im_/https://www.videogameschronicle.com/files/2019/04/Emil-Pagliarulo-480x480.jpg 480w, /web/20211107051743im_/https://www.videogameschronicle.com/files/2019/04/Emil-Pagliarulo-768x768.jpg 768w" data-sizes="auto"></figure></div></div><div class="vgc-object__header-details"><h1>Emil Pagliarulo</h1><div class="post__content-body"><p>Emil Pagliarulo is an American game designer at <a class="link-relationship" title="Companies > Bethesda Softworks [284 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