Virtual Worlds Quotes

Video games are meant to be just one thing: Fun! Fun for everyone.

A lot of people say video games can be stifling. Older people say, 'We had to go outside, and we had to make up stories!' For me, video games broadened my horizons. Playing 'Golden Axe,' I was those characters. I imagined myself being in that world, so honestly, it was a really good thing.

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

Platforms are going to get bigger and bigger. Minecraft and Microsoft are just the tip of the iceberg. You're going to see more and more action in this space. Not just from Microsoft's Project Spark and Sony's LittleBigPlanet.

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

When you come to Roblox, the player participates in things that are created by the community. You can hang out in a restaurant and try to survive a tornado. All of this is created by our creative community.

Jeron Lanier and 'Lawnmower Man.' That was VR. And there was the VFX1, that big giant VR prototype unit, and I was like, 'I am going to save my money and get one of those.' And then VR just sort of drifted away.

I was always an MMO fan. I'm playing 'World of Warcraft' in the clubhouse, and J.D. Drew and Coco Crisp saw me playing. They came over and got interested, and they wound up creating accounts.

Video games are ubiquitous now.

The foundation of Roblox is user-generated content: just like on YouTube there is so much to watch, on Roblox there is so much to play.

With 'World of Warcraft,' I like the potential for wasting time.

I think I was brought up with games and I don't think that they're just Pac-Man or Space Invaders. I think we've moved on, I think that there are stories being told and worlds being explored.

It's weird that, in a way, by writing about video games, I get to develop them, too.

Games have gotten so big and interesting that they've moved beyond the toy/entertainment space. It's not just a diversion from their regular lives; for a lot of people, it becomes an important part of their lives.

Growing up, I was always playing with video games.

We have this vision, that over time, social play and great content will be the core of great VR.

Games get a bad press compared with, say, opera - even though they're obviously better, because no opera has ever compelled an audience member to collect a giant mushroom and jump across some clouds.

I mostly played 'Pac-Man', but I played 'The Sims' with my kids when they were growing up.

You put on this set of goggles, and within seconds, your brain is convinced you're now in a different, virtual environment. You're somewhere else, and that somewhere else may be a video game, it may be in a real-time movie, a museum exhibit, or a medical surgical training app.

Video games are an exciting medium. The creativity of design, the technology and the interaction represent the best of American innovation.

Whenever I'm around my guy friends, I'm always playing video games. I've always enjoyed the graphics side of them, how they look.

We have a whole industry which is gigantic: games. Games is very successful. It's its own art form, though, and it's not the same as a linear narrative.

It's amazing what video games have obviously done for not only the industry and for entertainment but for the world and social interactions.

We're really building, at the highest level, the future of entertainment. And we're involved in the convergence of social communication and storytelling and we're doing it in immersive, 3D, social environment.

I think video games are going to completely take over storytelling in our society. Video games are not a fad.