Gaming Quotes

‘Every age has its storytelling form, and video gaming is a huge part of our culture. You can ignore or embrace video games and imbue them with the best artistic quality. People are enthralled with video games in the same way as other people love the cinema or theatre.’ – Andy Serkis

‘Gaming brings people together.’ – Lisa Su

‘Education should learn from the positive side of gaming – reward, accomplishment, and fun.’ – Sebastian Thrun

‘Man is a gaming animal. He must always be trying to get the better in something or other.’ – Charles Lamb

‘Gaming has been a great way to get to know people. That’s part of what I love about games, that they are social.’ – Rich Sommer

‘Sometimes it’s not always about what you can see or hear but what’s under the hood of a game that’s most impressive. Between those thousands and thousands of lines of code, magic happens. Sometimes the most amazing feats of gaming wizardry happen without you even noticing.’ – Rob Manuel

‘Getting to play with your friends and trash talk. That’s some of the best parts of gaming for me. It’s like having recess in elementary school.’ – Kofi Kingston

‘I think that gaming is more fun when you’re playing with people that you know.’ – Michael Morhaime

‘My mom didn’t let me play video games growing up, so now I do. Gaming gives me a chance to just let go, blow somebody up and fight somebody from another dimension. It’s all escapism.’ – Wayne Brady

‘Gaming in general is a male thing. It isn’t that gaming is designed to exclude women. Everybody who’s tried to design a game to interest a large female audience has failed. And I think that has to do with the different thinking processes of men and women.’ – Gary Gygax

‘Since I first got my iPhone and ‘Super Monkey Ball’ came out, I was like, ‘Oh my gosh, this is great.’ I’m always searching for the nirvana of mobile gaming, whether that’s from a Game Boy or a Vita or a PSP or now the Switch.’ – Todd Howard

‘I think that PC gaming is as healthy as it’s ever been. I think there’s probably more people playing games on their PCs, I just don’t think they’re gamers.’ – Peter Molyneux

‘The gaming world isn’t filled only with violence and depravity. In fact, it’s mostly enchanting.’ – Naomi Alderman

‘Our strategy is gaming for the masses.’ – Reggie Fils-Aime

‘I have been wildly enthused about gaming since I was younger, and a career path I chose not to go down but did really consider was getting into programming and game design.’ – Trent Reznor

‘An awful lot of successful technology companies ended up being in a slightly different market than they started out in. Microsoft started with programming tools, but came out with an operating system. Oracle started doing contracts for the CIA. AOL started out as an online video gaming network.’ – Marc Andreessen

‘Online harassment, especially gendered online harassment, is an epidemic. Women are being driven out; they’re being driven offline. This isn’t just in gaming. This is happening across the board online, especially with women who participate in or work in male-dominated industries.’ – Anita Sarkeesian

‘I am so pleased to be able to give back to the gaming world, which has given me so much.’ – Pokimane

‘PC gaming has always been strong, and I see it surviving for quite a few more years. It will be around for at least as long as people use PCs.’ – Markus Persson

‘I feel like a lot of the technology that happens in gaming, starts in gaming and it goes broader than gaming.’ – Justin Kan

‘I was working in a gaming company, but I really wanted to make animation. I didn’t really have anything special, no special tools at my disposal, so I used what I had on hand like Photoshop, and that’s really how I started.’ – Makoto Shinkai

‘I love mobile gaming. I love being able to take everything with me. If I start a game on my Wii U, say, I want to be able to pick it up on my DS and take it with me when I’m traveling.’ – iJustine

‘We are trying to capture the widest possible audience all around the world. In other words, we are trying to capture the people who are even beyond the gaming population.’ – Satoru Iwata

‘We have a large amount of data that shows playing fast-paced games improves hand-eye co-ordination, the ability to focus on the task at hand, and your ability to make decisions, as gaming improves your brain’s allocation of resources.’ – Daphne Bavelier

‘Essentially, I’m a 21-year-old who’s a millionaire through gaming, vlogging, and my online experience. Yo, I’ll take it!’ – KSI

‘Cloud Gaming means that the game doesn’t need to be downloaded and run on your computer; it literally means the game runs out on the Internet, in the cloud, with the experience being streamed to the players.’ – David Perry

‘Being nerdy just means being passionate about something, including everyone – the coolest people on Earth are passionate and therefore nerdy about something whatever it is, whether it’s sports, or gaming, or technology, or fashion, or beauty, or food, or whatever.’ – Zachary Levi

‘So yeah, from an early age, I always quite enjoyed gaming. It’s always been a big part of my life.’ – Asim Chaudhry

‘The further you get into technology, the further you go into gaming. That’s the general rule.’ – Nick Johnson

‘Private schools are gaming the system. There is way too much state money going in, and people who go to private schools seem to be given a head start for all of the top jobs and that’s something that needs to be dealt with as well.’ – Angela Rayner

‘A lot of gaming and a lot of interaction is no longer physical; it’s all digital and at a distance. There’s this innate, tribal need of the people to have face time with other people and play together in person. I think there’s been this rediscovery of the joy of playing with people around the table.’ – Matthew Mercer

‘I still love gaming and the gaming community.’ – Zoe Quinn

‘Gaming’s good for many different things, I’d say.’ – Bukayo Saka

‘I created a character who plays multiplayer video games, and he’s considered the most dominating gaming specimen.’ – Dr. Disrespect

‘If gaming were seen as an art, the important question would be not whether games are good for us but whether they are good, full stop.’ – Naomi Alderman

‘I don’t play. I’m a terrible gambler. I don’t know half the rules, and I’m not really patient enough to sit through hours of gaming.’ – Pansy Ho

‘If I’m on the road, I’m going to have my little gaming laptop along with me. You can’t go wrong.’ – Josh Hart

‘Gaming is one of those things that’s pretty amazing because when you think about it, everybody wants to game; whether you’re a casual gamer, or you’re an enthusiast gamer, there’s a large market for us.’ – Lisa Su

‘For years now, I’ve used gaming to unwind and relax during the season. It’s also how I manage to keep up with my friends when I’m on the road.’ – Rudy Gobert

‘Over the years, Forgotten Realms and gaming have taken me all over the world and made me all sorts of new friends.’ – Ed Greenwood

‘I’m so glad to have Xbox as a franchise, especially at a time when gaming is becoming even more important – as a digital life category and in the mobile world.’ – Satya Nadella

‘Nevada Energy doesn’t lose money. The gaming industry loses money. It employs all the people. It pays all the taxes. And if you take the P&L, the profit and loss, of the hotels in Las Vegas and Reno, it is a number that is minus, not plus, minus.’ – Steve Wynn

‘Before there was even an official naming of the 3DS, or before it was even decided that there would be 3-D capabilities, Mr. Iwata had brought up the topic of a new portable gaming system, and with that, the request to create a new title for that system… The topic of Kid Icarus came up.’ – Masahiro Sakurai

‘I appreciate the sentiment that I am a popular woman in computer gaming circles; but I prefer being thought of as a computer game designer rather than a woman computer game designer. I don’t put myself into gender mode when designing a game.’ – Roberta Williams

‘I actually think gaming is amazing for your mental health.’ – Asim Chaudhry

‘For me, the cool thing is doing things that could only be done in gaming.’ – Warren Spector

‘The notion that gaming was not for women rippled out into society, until we heard it not just from the games industry, but from our families, teachers and friends. As a consequence, I, like many women, had a complicated, love-hate relationship with gaming culture.’ – Anita Sarkeesian

‘Mobile gaming is the largest and fastest-growing opportunity for interactive entertainment, and we will have one of the world’s most successful mobile game companies and its talented teams providing great content to new customers, in new geographies, throughout the world.’ – Bobby Kotick

‘Do we care about gaming? We absolutely care.’ – Lisa Su

‘I came quite late to gaming: I didn’t start playing until 2002.’ – Richard K. Morgan

‘The whole thing with VR is that it doesn’t matter, local versus networked gaming. The goal in virtual reality isn’t to have people sit in the same room with headsets on.’ – Palmer Luckey

‘I have fond memories of the development work that led to a lot of great things in modern gaming – the intensity of the first person experience, LAN and Internet play, game mods, and so on.’ – John Carmack

‘Marrying to increase love is like gaming to become rich; alas, you only lose what little stock you had before.’ – William Wycherley

‘As I said in my state of the state address, we can no longer rely on gaming and sales taxes to pay our way. Indian gaming next door in California is eroding our major industry in Nevada.’ – Kenny Guinn

‘In my address last year, I spoke on the issue of gaming. My preference then is my preference now: to keep gaming within its existing contours, but to explore a better deal for all Minnesotans.’ – Tim Pawlenty

‘Ay, rail at gaming – ’tis a rich topic, and affords noble declamation. Go, preach against it in the city – you’ll find a congregation in every tavern.’ – Edward Moore

‘Online console gaming will continue to grow at a healthy pace.’ – Trip Hawkins

‘I do NOT think that PC gaming is over… it will always be the choice of the gaming enthusiast who is willing to put in the extra effort for a richer, more rewarding experience.’ – Mike Wilson

‘To me the arcade experience is the ultimate gaming experience.’ – Eugene Jarvis

‘Gaming is the backbone of Nevada’s economy.’ – Kenny Guinn

‘I foresee online gaming changing when there are good audio-visual links connecting the participants, thus approximating play in a face-to-face group.’ – Gary Gygax

‘You cannot drive a system that’s going to be aiming at preventing illness if everyone is not in it. The whole gaming of health insurance and health care in America is based on that fundamental principle: insure people who aren’t sick and you don’t have to pay more money on them.’ – Mehmet Oz

‘Short of baseball and my family, it was gaming. And gaming is a $20-million to $200-million multi-year effort. It’s an insane, stupid and utterly irresponsible act. But I did it.’ – Curt Schilling

‘Zynga made social gaming and play a worldwide phenomenon, and we remain the industry leader.’ – Mark Pincus

‘I got involved early on in social media – I created one of the first social networks – and for me, social gaming was a natural evolution of that.’ – Mark Pincus

‘I’ve always thought that gaming and YouTube and the web is a very post-punk extravaganza.’ – Malcolm Mclaren

‘Macau is limited in size and land is expensive, so gaming and leisure development must be more efficient. We follow a very conservative financial strategy.’ – Stanley Ho

‘It’s a mistake for Hollywood to impose themselves on the gaming space. Not only is it arrogant, but it hasn’t really worked.’ – Gore Verbinski

‘I don’t think anything really consciously went into ‘Legend’ that was influenced by videogames, but I’m pretty sure some of my experiences and love for gaming contributed to a few of the factors that are in ‘Legend’.’ – Marie Lu

‘A goal of Twitch is to be wherever gamers are, whether it’s on laptops and handheld devices or integrated into gaming consoles and software.’ – Emmett Shear

‘Given the huge number Xbox owners and how many of them love gaming spectatorship, it’s a natural fit to bring the Twitch experience to the 360.’ – Emmett Shear

‘There’s no bigger gaming franchise on the console than ‘Call of Duty’, and we can’t wait to see what the community can create with this new tool.’ – Emmett Shear

‘I’m always impressed by how compassionate the gaming community can be when they have a cause and appreciate that they leverage our platform to raise money for those in need. We continue to encourage giving in support of important causes, including Extra Life 2012.’ – Emmett Shear

‘Democrats love to criticize Republicans on guns, but they are generally mute when it comes to taking on Hollywood or the gaming industry.’ – Mark McKinnon

‘I’ve always been a bit of a mix between art and technology. I used to paint a lot, but I’m not very good with my hands. It has always been a fusion between my computer gaming interests and being exposed to the rich data of society that we live in.’ – Aaron Koblin

‘The idea of the ‘lone gamer’ is really not true anymore. Up to 65 percent of gaming now is social, played either online or in the same room with people we know in real life.’ – Jane McGonigal

‘New video gaming systems are coming out that track every joint of your body. It’s basically going to become a normal thing for us to allow Microsoft to put a three-dimensional camera on top of your television set looking at you, which sounds like a Big Brother scenario if ever I heard one, but, still, it’s what we’re going to allow.’ – Jesse Schell

‘I’m super excited about gaming always. That’s the thing that I geek out over; those are the vlogs that I’m surfing if I’m not already playing a game at night.’ – Felicia Day

”TableTop’ is packed with gaming celebrities and independent game creators. This is a huge subculture that really doesn’t have a vehicle to rally around or educate people with.’ – Felicia Day

‘The gaming world is a complete mystery to me! Well, I did play Pac Man and Frogger using big machines at an arcade back in the ’80s.’ – Doug Jones

‘I watch NFL football on Sundays. I enjoy gaming with friends, meaning role-playing games; I still enjoy going to conventions and traveling.’ – George R. R. Martin

‘There is this tremendous amount of arrogance and hubris, where somebody can look at something for five minutes and dismiss it. Whether you talk about gaming or 20th century classical music, you can’t do it in five minutes. You can’t listen to ‘The Rite of Spring’ once and understand what Stravinsky was all about.’ – Penn Jillette

‘I’ve watched with a kind of wary eye how gaming has progressed. I was there at the beginning with Pong in the arcade, and a lot of my great childhood memories were around a ‘Tempest’ machine.’ – Trent Reznor

‘With the recent addition of a full soundtrack and the players map, millions of Poptropicans around the globe are now fully immersed in a multimedia gaming experience when they embark on our high quality adventures.’ – Jeff Kinney

‘The video game market is huge, and the ability to tell stories, and tell different kinds of stories in the gaming space is quickly evolving and changing for the better.’ – Jim Lee

‘Maintaining the trust of the consumer is critical to our business. We live and breathe only one thing, which is wanting to connect consumers with great local businesses, and I don’t feel we can do that if we don’t have effective ways to prevent gaming of the system.’ – Jeremy Stoppelman

‘Digital intimacy ruins the appetite for the real thing. So, when kids are gaming or even when spouses are gaming, they lose their appetite for genuine intimacy. Kids lose their appetite for getting their intimacy needs, their hunger for significance and attachment, with the family, and it erodes the relationship between them and their parents.’ – Gordon Neufeld

‘In the 45 years I’ve worked in casinos, I dreamed of being honored by an organization like the American Gaming Association, especially since I don’t even have a hunting license.’ – Don Rickles

‘I used to game a lot, you know, back in the day. My gaming time done got so short that my skills ain’t where they need to be to be online, you know what I’m saying? I just got that Xbox One. I gotta get my skills back, up the par to call myself a gamer.’ – Ice Cube

‘If you are willing to take the trip through ‘Analogue,’ you’ll be rewarded with some of the best writing in gaming today and a look into the future of what kind of meaningful stories video games are capable of telling.’ – Rob Manuel

‘The gaming experience on Windows Vista is going to go beyond any of the gaming consoles and anything that’s been done before.’ – Jim Allchin

‘I still rate the bit in the first ‘Tomb Raider’ where the T Rex comes round the end of the valley and roars as one of the most awesome gaming experiences, and I still adore ‘Tomb Raider’ for putting that in my life.’ – Rhianna Pratchett

‘There’s established gaming IP that’s coming from console to mobile, which is interesting. Everything is converging a little bit toward mobile devices in the living room. On the casual side, the graphics and animation and game design and all of those variables are improving.’ – Chris DeWolfe

‘Where the gaming world is going – and certainly Activision proved it by hiring me – is being willing to push and bend and move in a new direction of actually capturing the character and storytelling.’ – Kevin Spacey

‘There’s a toxicity within gaming culture, and also in tech culture, that drives this misogynist hatred, this reactionary backlash against women who have anything to say, especially those who have critiques or who are feminists.’ – Anita Sarkeesian

‘My own contentious relationship with gaming continued through high school and college: I still enjoyed playing games from time to time, but I always found myself pushed away by the sexism that permeated gaming culture. There were constant reminders that I didn’t really belong.’ – Anita Sarkeesian

‘The time for invisible boundaries that guard the ‘purity’ of gaming as a niche subculture is over. The violent macho power fantasy will no longer define what gaming is all about.’ – Anita Sarkeesian

‘As others have recently suggested, the term ‘gamer’ is no longer useful as an identity because games are for everyone. These days, even my mom spends an inordinate amount of time gaming on her iPad. So I’ll take a cue from my younger self and say I don’t care about being a ‘gamer,’ but I sure do love video games.’ – Anita Sarkeesian

‘The only thing I think that is wrong with modern gaming now is the free-to-play stuff on mobile phones. I think it’s very cynical and cold and weird.’ – Markus Persson

‘We set up a situation and let you interact with it and see the consequences of your choice. That’s what gaming does.’ – Warren Spector

‘The Wii U is pretty cool, and the thing that I’m most intrigued about it is it’s the first gaming platform that actually is exploiting the second screen.’ – Warren Spector

‘A lot of the really good features of Windows 10 – things like Windows 10 Hello, where you have facial log in and you don’t have to use all your passwords, the Start screen and your ability to go through that, the touch usages of gaming, as the new games come to this product – those are going to run with PCs that have the latest features.’ – Brian Krzanich

‘I think the mainstream gaming industry has a very narrow focus on the young male audience. There are plenty of other people out there who enjoy playing games, but if you walk into most game stores, there’s nothing on the shelf for them. I mean, imagine if you could only buy cheeseburgers and nothing but cheeseburgers in every restaurant?’ – Jane Jensen

‘One of the cool things we’re seeing at TaskRabbit is local tech and gaming startups hiring TaskRabbits to test their products and deliver immediate user feedback. As the founder of a tech startup, I can tell you that this type of focus group testing is paramount – and usually really pricey and difficult to coordinate.’ – Leah Busque

‘There are times, especially when I was just getting into PC gaming, where I spent way less time playing than obsessing about the quality of the play.’ – Palmer Luckey

‘I’m a huge gamer. I’m very excited, and the idea of the Rift was as a headset that was designed around the specific uses of VR gaming. But I’m excited about a lot of stuff that’s outside of it, because I was a VR enthusiast. I want VR to be the thing that we all live in, that we all use for everything, not just games.’ – Palmer Luckey

‘The 2006 federal Internet gaming statute is not ambiguous. It does not prohibit gambling on fantasy sports.’ – Eric Schneiderman

‘If I can find time to play games, it’s console gaming. I don’t want to be plugged into my phone all the time. I’m waiting for the new Mario Kart to come out, but I’ve been playing Donkey Kong and Mario 3D World on the Wii U.’ – Michelle Phan

‘When Geoff Ramsey and Jack Pattillo started ‘Achievement Hunter,’ we expanded heavily into ‘let’s play’-style gaming videos and have since expanded with a massive roster of gaming talent and multiple channels dedicated just to gaming videos.’ – Burnie Burns

‘A lot of people try to control how you access gaming. You know, they’re trying to prevent people from buying games.’ – Aisha Tyler

‘The more people who come forward and talk about how much they love gaming, how much they talk about individuality and diversity, the more gamers of color that come out and gay gamers that come out and everybody talking about what they love – that’s what the community has in common: a love of gaming.’ – Aisha Tyler

‘It’s hard because you can’t legislate creative diversity. I think it’s more that the gaming community’s more diverse, and they’re going to ask for more diverse experiences. They’re going to demand them.’ – Aisha Tyler

‘If you’re a game company, you want to create a singular gaming experience, and part of that is doing stuff that nobody else is doing. If you’re trying to create a game that feels different, you’re going to create a lead that feels different. It’s not going to be just another white guy.’ – Aisha Tyler

‘I was like, ‘I want us to stop using that term. I’m not a ‘girl gamer.’ I’m just a gamer.’ The reasons I love gaming are the same reasons everyone loves gaming.’ – Aisha Tyler

‘High-end BREW phones aren’t nearly as limited a gaming platform as you might think – they are a lot more powerful than an original Play Station, for example. Java phones, however, are saddled with a huge disadvantage for gaming.’ – John Carmack

‘I played lots of games, and I was a fan of gaming, so I was always looking for new games. I was also a science fiction and fantasy fan, growing up, in games and books and movies.’ – Duncan Jones

‘I’m interested in all forms of content, including Internet and gaming. On the TV side, cable has sparked a renaissance of the medium and that will continue for storytellers.’ – Ron Howard

‘As a PC gaming enthusiast, a significant chunk of my time and money was spent building and upgrading my rig, always in pursuit of a better gaming experience. At some point, I decided to take a look past my three 3D monitors and figure out what the absolute best theoretical gaming setup would be.’ – Palmer Luckey

‘Mr. Mr. Mr. Trump… You’ve been in New York real estate and global real estate and the gaming industry and with politicians. You can’t say, reasonably, that Ted Cruz is the biggest liar you’ve ever seen.’ – Steve Bannon

‘Gamer humor ranges all over the place. What it comes down to is taking a lot of what we see in gaming and we’re familiar with in gaming and being like, ‘OK, hold on, let’s re-examine this for a second. Isn’t this funny? Isn’t this strange? Isn’t this a little bit ridiculous?’ That’s where it is.’ – Freddie Wong

‘I can’t say I’m a full-on gamer, since, basically, I just don’t have time for it. I know nowadays, gaming can be a lot like social media. People just stay on it all day long. Like they’re logged into the Matrix. But yeah, I enjoy it. When I get the time.’ – Roman Reigns

‘It’s odd to grow up in a gaming town because… we know all of the tricks that are going on behind the scenes.’ – Madchen Amick

‘I’m still focused on the flagship businesses: Quicken Loans and RockBridge, the title company, and some of the board stuff in the gaming.’ – Dan Gilbert

‘Regional gaming across the United States has had serious challenges, not just in Cleveland or Cincinnati, but also across the United States.’ – Dan Gilbert

‘Virtual reality sort of encloses and immerses the person into an experience that can be really cool but probably has a lower commercial interest over time. Less people will be interested in that, but there are some really cool areas there for education and gaming that we have a lot of interest in.’ – Tim Cook

‘I believe in the opportunities for social gaming. It’s overlapping with mobile gaming and lots of video gaming, but it’s still different. It’s all getting more blurry as hardcore games and console games talk about being social.’ – Mark Pincus

‘I think I give myself high marks being an entrepreneur and entrepreneuring a big idea about how popular social gaming could be. But I learned a lot of hard lessons on the CEO front… and do not give myself very high marks as a CEO of a large-scale company.’ – Mark Pincus

‘Money is catching up to the technological trends transforming all aspects of society and business; entertainment, insurance, health-care, gaming, leisure, retail – all commercial and social verticals are going digital – including money itself.’ – Max Keiser

‘Realistically, guys who are into gaming are not necessarily watching television.’ – Bonnie Hammer

‘The world of online marketing, where HubSpot operates, though, has a reputation for being kind of grubby. Our customers include people who make a living bombarding people with email offers or gaming Google’s search algorithm or figuring out which kind of misleading subject line is most likely to trick someone into opening a message.’ – Daniel Lyons

‘Social gaming is not something Zuckerberg could have imagined back when he was creating Facebook in his Harvard dorm room in 2004. The change began in May 2007, when Facebook announced it would let outside developers create applications that run on top of Facebook.’ – Daniel Lyons

‘It probably wasn’t until I was a freshman in high school and I met the people who became my gaming group that I finally found people who were weird like I was: that loved reading and playing games and not just watching a science fiction or fantasy movie but talking all about it.’ – Wil Wheaton

‘One of the things that I’ve never seen in tabletop gaming is this juvenile notion that the existence of a game that I don’t like, or the existence of a gamer who’s different than me, threatens my very existence and the very existence of my hobby.’ – Wil Wheaton

‘I don’t want to make some super cliche comment about how much more acceptable gaming is. I think it was always acceptable for me and my peers. But I think it’s become more so in pop culture, media, stuff like that – people with money have discovered that they can make money by marketing to us.’ – Thomas Middleditch

‘It’s not as if I’ve never been awkward myself. I’m a big gamer, so I’ve had access to that type of personality. I used to go to these LAN parties; that was before high-speed Internet. The only way you could get lag-free gaming was to haul these huge computers to people’s houses.’ – Thomas Middleditch

‘Looking ahead, we see the popularity of eSports exploding as competitive gaming becomes more mainstream and eSports leagues like ‘Call of Duty’ World League and Overwatch League driving greater engagement and viewership.’ – Bobby Kotick

‘Gaming is our cultural bogeyman – we blame it for everything from child obesity to violence to short attention spans. But any explanation that fits every situation ultimately explains nothing.’ – Naomi Alderman

‘As much fun as it is gaming, I have so much to do that I’ve had to get away from them. I still enjoy them. When I go to a friend’s house and they have a game on, I’ll happily join in and play.’ – Paul Dini

‘Look at music like gaming. You monetize the game to all the people who are most engaged. I wanted to bring that theory and thinking to music.’ – Steve Stoute

‘Gaming provides us with some very good signals about consumers and what they’re interested in.’ – Peggy Johnson

‘5G will be a major technology in growing industrial digitalisation, creating and enhancing industry digitalisation use cases such as immersive gaming, autonomous driving, remote robotic surgery, and augmented reality support in maintenance and repair situations.’ – Borje Ekholm

‘The web’s earliest architects and pioneers fought for their vision of freedom on the Internet at a time when it was still small forums for conversation and text-based gaming. They thought the web could be adequately governed by its users without their needing to empower anyone to police it.’ – Jenna Wortham

‘One of the things I am most excited about personally is a five-issue anthology I put together, ‘Legends of Red Sonja,’ which is full of wonderful little short stories written exclusively by my favorite female writers of comics, prose, and gaming.’ – Gail Simone

‘I haven’t ever really been close to retiring. I’ve threatened myself, that kind of thing. There were moments where I’m struggling or not healthy: It’s like, OK, is this the best way I can spend my 20s? Is this something that’s going to help me in the future, or I might as well be fishing or gaming.’ – Tennys Sandgren

‘Professional gaming competitions are creating celebrities who are recognized and revered as athletes were in prior generations. Spectator gaming is becoming as popular as mainstream sports.’ – Bobby Kotick

‘To allow our audiences to watch more professionally produced video content, we acquired Major League Gaming – MLG – and we expect MLG to become the ‘ESPN of Videogames’ with a focus on the celebration of gamers, both amateur and professionals.’ – Bobby Kotick

‘The social element has really transformed the gaming experience.’ – Bobby Kotick

‘As a general rule, Las Vegas sports books take boxing bets only on major fights.The same is true of most Internet gaming sites. Within that framework, not only does boxing allow participants to bet on their own bouts, it sometimes encourages them to do so.’ – Thomas Hauser

‘Asylum is for people fleeing persecution, not those searching for a better job. Yet our broken system – with its debilitating court rulings, a crushing backlog, and gaping loopholes – allows illegal migrants to get into our country anyway and for whatever reason they want. This gaming of the system is unacceptable.’ – Kirstjen Nielsen

‘Amazon creating GameOn could be a very good introduction into competitive gaming.’ – Ninja

‘It’s exciting to see a brand like Hershey’s is getting into the gaming world.’ – Ninja

‘I feel like Drake saw that I was up-and-coming in the gaming scene, and he thought it would be a perfect way to just tap into another source of viewers by playing with me. He also might have just wanted to game. I’m not sure.’ – Ninja

‘I do a lot of gaming.’ – Big Show

‘Some kids like books, some kids like movies, but for me, every year I still go back and play ‘Legend of Zelda.’ So to me, when I got up to the big time, I thought that Zelda was my thing. CM Punk has a Pepsi tattoo, so why can’t I have the Triforce? Gaming is huge to me; it’s all I do.’ – Cody Rhodes

‘I’ve always been interested in gaming, growing up as a kid. I played games all my life. So once I got into the music industry and I was successful with my music, I always wanted to get into the gaming world.’ – Soulja Boy

‘Gaming goes in trends, and for a bit of a too-long stretch, it focused on huge productions.’ – Markus Persson

‘I think if someone has a gaming obsession, ‘Ultima’ became mine. I would say no other series ingrained itself in how I want to make games or what I want them to be more than ‘Ultima’ did.’ – Todd Howard

‘The mobile gaming experience is fundamentally limited by this very small screen in front of you that occupies maybe 15 degrees of your field of view. The PC and console experience, you have a 45-degree field of view. VR is 120 degrees: your entire view space. The expectations of users on the platform will rise to levels we’ve never seen before.’ – Tim Sweeney

‘The Wii U is not a tablet. It’s a two-screen experience. And so you have this unique GamePad that gives you a different way to have a gaming experience.’ – Reggie Fils-Aime

‘If Wii was about gaming for the masses, then think of DSi as creativity for the masses.’ – Reggie Fils-Aime

‘The gaming enthusiast that buys a tremendous amount of games is truly insatiable.’ – Reggie Fils-Aime

‘We have worked with a range of input approaches. We’ve worked with the range of mechanisms to drive immersion into the gaming experience.’ – Reggie Fils-Aime

‘We see our mobile initiatives as a way to bring our intellectual properties and our gameplay experiences to a larger population than the tens or hundred million consumers that own a dedicated gaming system.’ – Reggie Fils-Aime

”Yoshi’s Woolly World’ for young families and new entrants into the overall video gaming space, I think, is going to be a hardware driver.’ – Reggie Fils-Aime

‘One of the things that, on one hand, I love and, on the other hand, that troubles me tremendously about not only our fanbase but about the gaming community at large is that, whenever you share information, the perspective is, ‘Thank you, but I want more.’ ‘Thank you, but give me more.’ I mean, it is insatiable.’ – Reggie Fils-Aime

‘Renewables need to be developed in an environmentally responsible way. And, you know, I frankly have heard criticisms from even environmentalists saying that some wind farms impact gaming and fishing patterns, whether it’s offshore or onshore.’ – George P. Bush

‘There are only a couple characters and people in the world where, in history, where you can go anywhere in the world and say that character or person, that name, that song, and everyone knows what it is. Mickey Mouse is one, Disney, in general. In terms of gaming, Super Mario, he’s everywhere.’ – Jordan Fisher

‘I’ve always enjoyed gaming, but even as I got older, and I started to get deeper into writing and all this stuff that is my grown-up job, I couldn’t play as much as I used to.’ – Zelda Williams

‘Our product, our brand of wrestling fits a videogame better than any other form of wrestling. From our X-Division to our signature matches, just the whole gaming nation, a whole generation of people out there are going to experience TNA for the first time, so we’re really looking to do some creative, innovative things with our game.’ – Jeff Jarrett

‘If ‘Heavy Rain’ is a huge commercial success, it will show everybody in the industry that the world is sick of first-person shooters, that people are ready for an adult gaming experience. If we fail, it will say, ‘Please keep making the same old stuff.” – David Cage

‘The bulk of my work is comedy and I wanted to use the gaming world as a vehicle to deliver comedy.’ – Zoe Quinn

‘Gaming is something you have to force actively against and I will do this.’ – Ralph Hasenhuttl

‘Gamergate should have been a time of reckoning for the gaming community, which had long been rife with sexism and misogyny. It wasn’t.’ – Brianna Wu

‘There’s the idea that gaming is a closed door and that men are holding access to who gets in or out, and you have to prove – if you’re female – that you’re a real gamer. I think the younger generation, they don’t care.’ – Ashly Burch

‘I think gaming has influenced popular culture in a huge way. It’s worked its way into novels, and blockbuster movies.’ – Bill Bailey

‘Films and gaming are blurring together, and it makes for brilliant popcorn entertainment.’ – Bill Bailey

‘My passion for gaming is well-known among both the Utah Jazz and my team in France.’ – Rudy Gobert

‘Expanding Massachusetts’ developing gaming industry to include wagering on professional sports is an opportunity for Massachusetts to invest in local aid while remaining competitive with many other states pursuing similar regulations.’ – Charlie Baker

”Lost Vikings’ and ‘Rock ‘n’ Roll Racing’ were pretty critical games to us. We got some acclaim as a result, some video gaming awards. Those are the games that impressed Davidson and Associates and led to the merger talks.’ – Michael Morhaime

‘Activision and Blizzard both believe that we’re in an expanding market where we can reach more people across multiple platforms, geographies and age groups. Both of our companies are positioned very well to take advantage of those trends to keep lowering the barriers to get more people into gaming.’ – Michael Morhaime

‘I think people are interested in watching what they know and what they care about, so as you have more people where gaming is a huge part of their life, they want to see what the top players in the world are able to do.’ – Michael Morhaime

‘We want gaming and e-sports to be something that is welcoming and appropriate for everybody who wants to come and watch.’ – Michael Morhaime

‘Asia is the founding land of competitive gaming.’ – Michael Morhaime

‘The development of gaming in Asia usually serves as the marker for how their company predicts the development of gaming will go globally.’ – Michael Morhaime

‘BlizzCon is a great example of how positive and uplifting gaming can be.’ – Michael Morhaime

‘There is another person on the other end of the chatscreen. They’re our friends, our brothers and sisters, our sons and daughters. Let’s take a stand to reject hate and harassment. And let’s redouble our efforts to be kind and respectful to one another. And let’s remind the world what the gaming community is really all about.’ – Michael Morhaime

‘Gaming notebooks aren’t that abundant. Not that many gamers are able to play on notebooks.’ – Jensen Huang

‘Only ROCCAT’s sleek, precision-engineered gaming devices can meet my exact demands for the premiere tools necessary to dominate my competition.’ – Dr. Disrespect

‘Gaming related content will redefine entertainment and I am looking forward to leading the way.’ – Dr. Disrespect

‘Much of the excitement about virtual reality has come from the gaming community.’ – Maria Konnikova

‘Expanded gaming is a long-overdue and common sense way to make Kentucky more competitive and protect the hard-earned pensions of our teachers and first responders.’ – Andy Beshear

‘I’ll always put the best interests of our people first – and that includes expanding gaming to create new opportunities here in Kentucky.’ – Andy Beshear

‘Gaming content is exactly what YouTube wants (the videos are long, the audiences are engaged, and thus people stay on the site).’ – Hank Green

‘Roblox is spearheading the next generation of gaming – one in which players become developers and user-generated content is at the core.’ – David Baszucki

‘The knowledge that all the games are created by the community, it gives the opportunity to try exploratory gaming concepts. Our developers take larger risks in what they make.’ – David Baszucki

‘We continually compare Roblox to traditional gaming companies. The difference between us and them is that Roblox has millions of people always creating stuff. That gives us the viral juice both with the content and the sharing between all those users.’ – David Baszucki

‘Just because you’re a woman in gaming doesn’t mean you’re a nice person all the time necessarily.’ – Megan Ganz

‘You don’t often talk about the cultural significance of video games in places like China and Korea, but it’s a huge part of culture throughout the world, and very, very accessible too. Now that you don’t have to be locked away in your bedroom to play them, it’s gaming everywhere.’ – Peter Molyneux

‘I think, for me, it’s very simple with the Xbox; I just want the ultimate gaming console.’ – Peter Molyneux

‘Life has changed since my kids. I love visiting gaming parlors and playing with them for hours on end.’ – Kiku Sharda

‘I’m very happy to be associated with Playing 11; fantasy gaming is growing very rapidly and Playing 11 is a great stage for people/users to use their skill, create enthusiasm, fun from the comfort of your device.’ – Yuzvendra Chahal

‘We see ourselves as part of a larger gaming ecosystem: You’ve got broadcasters, game developers, sponsors, and of course the video platforms like TwitchTV.’ – Justin Kan

‘I think people have called Twitch a niche for a long time but it’s not, gaming is bigger than Hollywood.’ – Justin Kan

‘During the pandemic, obviously gaming has become almost like a primary activity. People are at home all the time, they need to entertain themselves, gaming has seen huge growth in all the gaming companies and so Twitch is no exception.’ – Justin Kan

‘We eliminated a possible tax increase on charitable organizations and lowered the tax rate on charitable gaming receipts.’ – Glenn Youngkin

‘I think, for me, you know, I don’t really do yoga. I haven’t really got the body type for it. But for me, gaming is like yoga. Like, it can be very zen for me, because even though if I’m stressed, if I’m losing, I’m focusing on one game, one thing. I’ve got an objective. I’ve got a task.’ – Asim Chaudhry

‘China has made giant investments in gaming companies, and has many eager gamers.’ – Zeynep Tufekci

‘Gaming has a certain form in which it is organized. It has different levels and a sense of participation. Achievement is very important. You are constantly judged in relation to earning points. I think that’s a way many people have learned to understand the world.’ – Hito Steyerl

‘When I go to gaming circles on I’m a ‘God of War’ guy. I’m in horror circles, I’m ‘The Walking Dead’ guy. In sci-fi, yes, there’s ‘Battlestar,’ but there’s also weird fare, like ’10 Cloverfield Lane.’ ‘Outlander’ is a historical epic, and there’s ‘Black Sails.” – Bear McCreary

‘Though I’m not as addicted to gaming as I’m to books, I have to admit that I can’t stop myself from grabbing the console whenever I see one.’ – Akshara Haasan

‘Sometimes I need to switch off and I like being competitive and am not able to play tennis 15 hours per day. Where else can I be competitive? I feel like I am quite good in gaming and it helps my career sometimes.’ – Daniil Medvedev

‘I’m not really into online gaming because I like to talk smack to guys when I play. I like to see the disappointment in their faces as they sit across from me.’ – Shelton Benjamin