Two employees of Microsoft created a company of their own to create this product. Initially, they started two teams, one codenamed as a reference to something in (1) and the second codenamed as the guy highlighted in (2). The first team was supposed to create something frightening while the second was supposed to be dark and moody and literary.

The second didn’t really take off. All employees of the company were eventually merged into the first. Strong influences of the second can still be noticed in the final product, though the product eventually had nothing to do with either (1) or (2) save for a few references here and there.

Identify the codenames and the final product.

Once again, sorry for the delay. Question stays up for longer :)

Cracked by udupendra , Advaith , Mo , Dibyo , Rogi , Logik , shenoyvarun86 , akhi , Raghuvansh , varuns88 and madhur.

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Who he?

Hints:

1. 

2. Scroll down
   Cracked by: krudebox , Rogi , emrohit , Debasish , joe , jayanth , Logik , Advaith and Rithwik K.

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Guest question from udupendra. Thanks sire!

If you were using this, what would your likely destination be?

Plz to send guest questions to boiledbeans@gmail.com. THX.

Cracked by: Rogi , udupendra , Abhilash , poo , shenoyvarun86 , Higgers , Logik , Advaith , Deepthi JS , Ananth , prasadbhat , Dibyo , Gurupad , Kaiser Soze , Kamal Rathi , varuns88 , Raghuvansh , Mo , madhur and duriel.

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Identify and connect:

Cracked with the expected answer by Udupendra and Logik.

An unexpected connect by prasadbhat! Awesome stuff :-). Sorry, jumped the gun here. Thanks for pointing it out Rogi.

udupendra and Logik

What are(were) these towers used for? The other pic is a hint.

Cracked by: shenoyvarun86, krudebox , udupendra , Dibyo , tete80 , Logik , duriel , Rogi , Siddharth Jain and Hitesh T S.

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What does this photo taken from the ISS show?

Cracked by: Ananth , krudebox , shenoyvarun86 , Raghuvansh , Gurupad , udupendra , Rogi , Advaith , Logik , byslexia , Dibyo and Rithwik K.

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Identify the game

Cracked by: Rogi , udupendra , Logik , Advaith , Hari K , Ananth , Raghuvansh , Deepthi JS , madhur , Joshan , superbrat , Dibyo , shenoyvarun86 , krudebox , yaksha , akhi , mayugh , Aditya , achyuth , duriel.

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Sitter.

Actors from a famous movie. What character did the short dude play?

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Another Google question :)

Connect

and a few others..

P.S: Sry for the delay.. will be open longer

P.P.S: udupendra sent this question(in a slightly different form) at a timestamp lesser than the timestamp I posted it, but I had not seen it. This is to ACK his contribution :)

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Connect

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