A game is an opportunity to focus our energy, with relentless optimism, at something we’re good at (or getting better at) and enjoy. In other words, gameplay is the direct emotional opposite of depression.
I cannot get myself interested in video games. I've been given video game players and they just sit there connected to my TVs gathering dust until eventually I unplug them so I can put in another special-region DVD player.
Being young is an advantage. You've grown up with games as the dominant entertainment. You have a lot of experience of video games. So what do you want to see that's not been done? Innovation is really low cost for you. You can afford to take risks a...
I came up in 1941 and I played against men who played in the 1930s. I stayed until 1963 playing against men who will be playing in the 1970s. So I think I can feel qualified to say that baseball really was a great game, and baseball is really a great...
Unfortunately, given the rules of the American political game, people who try to participate by self-righteously refusing to identify with one or the other of the two parties are like people who say they love to play baseball but refuse to join a tea...
We need games like 'A Closed World' for many reasons. When you hear another developer talk about how games need to grow up, they need to tackle adult themes, and how they need to embrace that ability to transport the player into a different world, th...
You so need a Daddy, little girl.
A mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge.
Summer will end soon enough, and childhood as well.
...grief can derange even the strongest and most disciplined of minds.
A bruise is a lesson... and each lesson makes us better.
They’re both bungholes who think they’re too noble to shit,
Now, on nights that I can't sleep, I play video games alone until the morning.
In football you always get judged on your last game. Whoever you are, or how amazing you are, it's the last game that everyone has seen.
Emotional exhibitionism is one block away from whoring for attention.
The Olympic Games are the quadrennial celebration of the springtime of humanity.
The Olympic Games were created for the exhaltation of the individual athlete.
I dress up as a middle-aged prostitute and do a game show.
There's not a whole lot of events out there on television, especially in the years between Olympic Games.
To be undefeated, to primer is to learn the game for not just your talents but for the game itself.
I never play video games! I'm so bad at it. I have, like, no manual dexterity.
