"Why are we still here? This is a very beloved and well-respected company within the game industry."
"Activision Blizzard devs demand breastfeeding protections and other reforms."
"So good for them for sticking up for workers' rights, and I hope Activision Blizzard treats its employees better."
"The only way you're gonna get big studios to take a fresh look at the way they make games is to make your voice heard and maybe stop buying games with blatantly exploitative and terrible progression systems."
"It has received a reputation as ‘the very first game that made me have tears in my eyes’ from Japanese players. I was most pleased by that comment."
"It's going to affect the quality of the games, but more importantly, it is just human indecency and it has to be rooted out of Ubisoft, it has to be rooted out of the games industry, it has to be rooted out of all industries."
"Galactic Cafe's The Stanley Parable... is not only technically one of the first games to engage in the slightly navel-gazing trend of critiquing games using games but it's also one of the most incisive games dealing with the subject."
"This notion of us getting more comfortable with not owning our games is utterly ridiculous and completely dystopian."
"It is too much for no real benefit and people are buying games all year round now, especially with the digital culture."
"There's no denying that indies are a very important part of this industry, and the more we can encourage them, the better."
"A phenomenal marketing campaign and you have one of the most iconic Sonic games of all time."
"Blizzard need to stop playing catch-up... start making calls a little quicker."
"Soul Frame is the game that we're working on... it's very much a sister project to Warframe."
"This is by far the most ambitious game Rare has ever created."
"That's not how the world should [ __ ] work! That's how the world should [ __ ] work, where great games with fresh ideas are destined to be considered flops while a greed-driven juggernaut of sluggish offerings and microtransactions still wins."
"The future of game development is here, and it's beyond exciting!"
"Guilty Gear Strive finally found mainstream success, bringing Guilty Gear into the conversation in general gaming."
"I never thought I'd live to see the day where Wizards would announce something that would unite the entire Magic the Gathering community."
"Blizzard workers have been through the ringer for the last two years."
"If you like me do care about the local games store you care about Wizards of the coast continuing to invest in and support what has been a vital part of this game since its very inception."
"Dead Space would be met with widespread critical acclaim across the industry, with critics commending its gameplay for the ways in which it expanded upon that of prior horror titles."
"We want to retain our souls we don't want to sell ourselves out they want to continue speaking out fighting for justice and just fighting for a better games industry."
"The relationship between developers and players has become adversarial."
"We could have a healthier, diverse ecosystem of the game."
"If Blizzard ever want me to do anything I will do it because I'm just like just like a shameful fanboy and always have been a blizzard."
"Many who have worked at Naughty Dog over the years described it as a duality as a place that can be simultaneously the best and worst workplace in the world."
"I think there's something iconic about Bungie's creation originally about Master Chief... this iconic character hero character that I think people are drawn to." - Phil
"Everything that we've talked about today is leading to this being your big break if you're an indie dev now is your chance."
"Elven Ring provides an experience no other game in the market does."
"OFF is a very important piece of Indie gaming history."
"Steve is the avatar of Minecraft, one of the biggest franchises ever released."
"Deliver all these features... make a great product... take care of your developers... make sure it's a low price."
"Nobody should have to live paycheck to paycheck being employed by one of the biggest game developers in the world."
"Activision Blizzard announced a plan to convert all 1100 of its US temporary and contract quality assurance testers to full-time employees."
"These past few weeks have been a great reminder of how not to release a game."
"Games can take a big step forward for the industry by being cognizant of the world around us and what these symbols we're drawing on mean."
"I'm leaving Blizzard Entertainment after 19 amazing years. It was truly the honor of a lifetime."
"The business model for this game is very, very, very fair."
"I've seen how hard the development team worked on this game, sleepless nights, so much effort put into this game."
"A glitch didn't just influence its own series, but created its own genre."
"Or do you believe people are overreacting and the game is the same as it's always been?"
"A last of us remake wouldn't surprise me and it probably will release later on this year."
"Overall, I would say IGN has handled the situation pretty well."
"This is just absolutely unacceptable to launch a game like that here in 2023."
"Star Wars Battlefront 2 is the game that shook us into awakening because it showed us how a game can be top to bottom ruined by greed."
"I have to be a little bit thankful...fell into Riot's lap instead of anyone else's."
"God of War stands proudly alongside the likes of Horizon Zero Dawn, Uncharted 4, and Gears of War 4."
"Please guys, wake the [ __ ] up. You're killing the game."
"Capcom, the royalty of fighting and survival horror games, have generally held strong throughout the years."
"It's good that the new executive producer is being open about this."
"CD Projekt RED is arguably the most honest publisher in this triple-A gaming industry."
"They were freaking out three months ago, holy crap, the game is not good. What are we going to do? I can't even imagine how they feel today. I wish I had a time machine to go back and feel like that." - Eric Williams
"A majority of game publishers actively promote sharing their content."
"It's time once again for the annual Digital Foundry Game of the Year Awards. Hard to believe that yet another year has passed us by, but 2021 was a pretty good year for video games."
"The lessons they learned developing this series have allowed the studio to elevate the rest of Ubisoft's portfolio."
"Starfield is in fact coming this year and being revealed at E3 2018."
"Working on a world famous title and receiving user evaluation from all over the world is rewarding."
"The Last of Us sounds like just another zombie game, but stop looking at that paper, crumple it up and throw it away."
"The corporate culture of how magic is being ran has permanently been changed."
"When major videogame publishers don't fucking like something, it usually means it's a pretty fucking good something."
"At least there is a chance for a comeback, whereas number one Crucible is dead in the water."
"Talent and quality gameplay isn't always enough to make a successful game."
"It's fascinating to watch a game like Baldur's Gate 3 find genuine mainstream success."
"A world where the Bioware properties go down is not a world I want to be in."
"PlatinumGames, the makers behind so many incredible things."
"Grand Theft Auto 3 is digital anarchy, a perfect video game playground, and an exemplary execution of a formula that would change gaming history."
"Some of the most successful, beloved, and critically acclaimed games of all time aren't part of that subgenre... thanks to Super Metroid and Castlevania: Symphony of the Night."
"It's a relationship that we need to balance between player and Kabam."
"I'm here now telling you I think I'm on the right side here and I want you to stand with me and let's make Counter-Strike in 2021 a scene that can survive the tests it's going to face."
"I let Mick know that we would move forward with the combined effort to provide a more comprehensive collection of the music from the game." - Marty Stratton
"Bloodstained Ritual of the Night: setting the standard of what a crowdfunded game should be."
"All I'm hoping for is a brighter future and hopefully Bethesda will kind of have some inspection about all this and do what's right."
"Fans are the game. It doesn't matter how good or bad a game is, you could be the best game ever if you treat your fans like they're not going to play you right."
"Video games are real hard to make congratulations to all of these studios thank you for everything that you do appreciate you..."
"However you look at it, isometric CRPGs are back and it looks like they're here to stay."
"Baldur's Gate 3 is full of risks making it the anti-triple a game."
"Lies of P did it easily... it represents the beginning of a new golden age for these types of games."
"I'm an artist and animator, you might remember me from Game Grumps."
"Multiple Studios have been surrounded by controversy due to forced crunch."
"Despite having pretty decent sales for the following months, Activision Blizzard made a surprising announcement that they would be significantly downsizing Radical Entertainment, thus killing the Prototype franchise along with the developer itself."
"But it's okay to be frustrated at Roblox as a company."
"I want to make a difference in the world and change this game for the better."
"Diablo 4...ridiculous earnings right that if 50 year-over-year increase in net bookings."
"Despite the stereotype of any game that goes through development hell being an unfocused unfinished mess, you may have noticed that everything I've talked about to this point has been fairly competent."
"I'm just happy to see that they're changing the industry with Game Pass. They're changing the industry by getting studios and bringing out games consistently throughout the whole year." - Timmy
"I don't want your money if you don't want the game."
"The Mario Kart DS anti-piracy screen devours the camera with a creature and leaves Mario stranded on an island, delivering a message about the seriousness of piracy."
"It showcases everything that made the series so iconic."
"The design director on Cyberpunk 2077 resigned following a harassment investigation."
"Success doesn't always equal a sequel... Nintendo doesn't always feel that way."
"Being on game pass is like the exposure the exposure is humongous right like it's a massive massive deal."
"I think people think like, okay game is quality, game looks good, game must make money and the answer is that a lot of games that are very good don't make [ __ ] and I see that on Steam."
"I feel like Kojima likes money, and I feel like if they were to do it with, I'm sorry, Konami, uh, really likes money."
"AI art is now banned by many major game development Studios due to possible legal copyright issues."
"The reality is there's so many games, there's a very, very, very few new ideas."
"Just bring more people into the industry with different perspectives, and let them fall where their talents lay."
"A huge bombshell was dropped on us by Nintendo that might mean the end of the smash scene as we know it."
"Making a famous game is not the only way to make a positive impact on the industry."
"You control your own destiny; you had a very direct link to the consumers."
"We're excited to have such an amazing panel of speakers here today from Infinity Wood, Naughty Dog, and Monolith."
"If you're trying to find employment at a game studio, your job every day from nine to five is to fix your portfolio constantly."
"We are finally a full-time freelance illustrator after 16 years as a concept artist in the game industry."
"That's why Indie and double-A gaming is thriving right now because they can take risks."
"The path to generative AI becoming a useful tool in the games industry will be a slow and gradual process."
"I've been a concept artist in the game industry for about 16 years."
"The hardest part about getting into games is really just getting your foot in the door."
"We sit down in the middle of these two big industries while the films and games allow us to reinvent ourselves, thinking out-of-the-box, imagining things that might not be real or might not necessarily need to be something that's functional."
"It is literally a miracle that any game comes out."
"I'm a concept artist working in the game industry."
"I've always thought that going to events like this and networking is extremely important when being in the game dev industry."
"Machine learning is really gonna revolutionize what happens with game development."
"He's changed the game industry, yeah, legend, oh yeah, no doubt."
"The first and the most obvious way is getting a job."