David Baszucki Quotes

Amazon creating GameOn could be a very good introduction into competitive gaming.

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.

To this day, I run into people all the time that say, whether it was 'Doom', or maybe even more so 'Quake' later on, that that openness and that ability to get into the guts of things was what got them into the industry or into technology.

Our developers are helping and participating in the virtual economy by making games that aren't just fun, but which monetize as well.

If we can make great games for PS3 players... how many PS3 players are out there? If we can make great games for everybody, that's a much bigger service. There's no reason I shouldn't do that.

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

Myself and the team at Gearbox have a very keen interest in cross-platform play.

Some of our developers are starting to make $20,000 a month, which is really significant... We're getting developers who are 14 and 20 years of age making more money than their parents, starting to make a professional career of developing games on Roblox.

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.

I wouldn't have a career if it wasn't for the 'Fortnite' Community.

Taking 'Duke Nukem Forever' on was a very easy decision for me to make.

Always trust computer games.

I've always played games. I've been brought up around gaming.

When I started, I wanted probably to make games that were inspired by films that I liked.

Roblox's strength has always been both capitalizing on the early phase but playing the long-game as well.

The mission of Gearbox is to entertain the world and with the record-breaking success of 'Borderlands 3,' we're excited to take one more giant leap down that road.

My entire career is online - I create games on the web.

People trying new ideas are a blessing for gamers and in the industry in general.

Facebook has revolutionized social games, as friends can see your points, achievements and in game events.

When we created Overwatch at Blizzard, it was always with the expectation that we would be able to celebrate and recognize our players in a way that would be consistent with traditional sports.

Nintendo's approach to our work is to greatly increase the population of gamers.

Bringing Roblox to Xbox is a huge leap forward in our mission to unite and inspire the creators, dreamers and explorers of the next generation.

Hopefully my era can help build the game.

In 1999, I was running my first tech start-up and learning the Unreal Engine, the tool that would define my career as a game developer, when news of Columbine ground all work to a standstill.

Treyarch contributed so significantly to the multiplayer technology that's in 'Modern Warfare 2,' and they didn't really get the credit for that.