Shervin Pishevar Quotes

Zynga made social gaming and play a worldwide phenomenon, and we remain the industry leader.

Games have grown and developed from this limited in-the-box experience to something that's everywhere now. Interactive content is all around us, networked, ready. This is something I've been hoping for throughout my career.

Games are the most social of all things on the web.

In 2007 I was at Facebook, and we looked at some of the social networks in Asia, and they were full of games.

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.

Everybody is playing games. There are games now for pretty much every age, every demographic.

People don't want to leave Facebook to play games - Zynga's phenomenal success is proof of that.

[W]e spend three billion hours a week playing online games.

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.

Games have become a social phenomenon.

You can't ignore mobile. We are doing a lot of stuff in the game space, mostly nonconsole stuff, and those are primarily mobile/pad games.

I'm trying to bring social games into the zeitgeist.

But I believe that as the quality of these platforms gets better, and as products like Roblox start to look and feel more like a Pixar movie, you're going to see the span of these platforms get bigger, and ultimately I believe there will be a platform company that's as big if not bigger than the publicly traded game publishers.

Games like 'Fortnite' are way more fun to play with your real-world friends, and they're so accessible that anybody can play.

We feel the game industry is changing in some major ways. 'Fortnite' is a harbinger of things to come. It's a massive number of people all playing together, interacting together, not just playing but socializing.

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.

We're excited to bring the expansive world of Roblox to Android users around the world.

We think there is definitely a lot of use for online connectivity in creative games.

Man, Farmville is so huge! Do you realize it's the second-biggest browser-based social-networking-centered farming game in the world?

I'm a Words With Friends dork!

Mobile entertainment is a huge opportunity. We are committed to mobile just as much as we are to PCs.

The game-playing market today is pretty sizable.

I play 'World of Warcraft,' which means I end up hanging out with teenage boys a lot.

We were doing mobile games before the iPhone. We were doing free-to-play with 'Quake Live.' We wanted to do massively multiplayer stuff in the early days but didn't have the resources to do it.

People talk about PlayStations, video games, social network and Twitter; I can't handle it.