"The video game industry is a $200 billion plus industry. It's bigger than music. It's bigger than movies."
"This isn't just like one studio said anything about this. We had Mega Crit, the developers behind Slay the Spire, saying, 'Despite the immense amount of time and effort our team has already poured in development of our new title, we will be migrating to a new engine unless the changes are completely reverted.'"
"The world was introduced to a thrilling Zombie Survival game that promised to define the genre and change the gaming landscape forever."
"The year is 2004, and Blizzard is getting ready to release its biggest game yet."
"A former developer provided some insight into circumstances around its abrupt collapse."
"Ultimately, The Witcher 1 is an ambitious RPG from Polish developer CD Projekt Red in 2007...it's a game that introduced me to what games could be."
"It's about the games and not about the stores. If a game is good enough and generates enough excitement, it will sell regardless."
"The only truly destructive thing about destruction in video games is how the industry keeps ignoring it, putting it on the back burner while they spend resources on unimportant things."
"Video games are meant to be fun and fulfilling, not just for players but also for the people making them."
"In 1985, Nintendo released the NES in the United States, a console that rejuvenated consumer confidence in gaming in its darkest hour."
"Unions in video games would be good and would help out in this extremely brutal and abusive environment."
"The mainstream game industry is led by spineless, pathetic cowards. This is not news."
"Video game publishers are making billions selling you a game as a good, not telling you how long it will last, purposefully killing it later so you're left with nothing, but then they get to keep your money."
"Tony Hawk was stuck in an odd spot. It had soared to the heights of smash success, but it was time for its fall from grace."
"He said where is it where is this quote one sec, 'The goal that I had in bringing a lot of the packaged goods folks into Activision about 10 years ago was to take all of the fun out of making video games.'"
"EA was adamant about Dead Space 2 hitting a 90 rating from Metacritic upon its release."
"Thank you to organisations like A Better ABK and A Better Ubisoft for organising and showing the potential power for organization. That's what this industry has needed more than anything else, is an organized workforce, a unionized dare I say it workforce."
"Another week, boys, and another 12 this week at Bungie. We've been heads down making sure season 17 is poised to rock and roll."
"Video game actors should get what the cartoon actors do, I guess."
"Disco Elysium, for those that don't know it, absolutely startled the games industry."
"Shu Yoshida's plan included fostering inter-team collaboration to increase the quality of titles and reduce development costs."
"You're not getting, you know, video game passionate designers, developers, artists that are super into it coming together."
"Portal made an immediate impact on the video game industry."
"Blizzard continues to be a disgrace to the very industry that they built up."
"David Wise has contributed a substantial amount to the video game world through his profound impact on the Donkey Kong franchise."
"Piracy of video games and on video game consoles should end."
"At least under new leadership there would be some hope that things can turn around for activision blizzard that games can be made with more integrity with less focus on factory producing them out there."
"Red Dead was only out for nine days but yeah, just like Call of Duty 2, Call of Duty is still crushing it."
"If players simply didn't buy these crates, they would not be added into games in future."
"We are really witnessing a massive moment in the games business, similar to Sega."
"EA executives are passionate about making single-player games."
"Banjo-Kazooie provided the groundwork for Rare's future projects and solidified their reputation as industry leaders in 3D platforming."
"Started the lowest level of the design ladder at Bungie and make your way up and learn from a bunch of super smart folks and make a bunch of goofy mistakes along the way." - Luke Smith
"This was a risk on the part of Sony, this was a huge undertaking for the guys at Guerilla Games."
"We only have a handful of AAA companies to still look up to like Naughty Dog, Insomniac Games, Santa Monica Studios... it just, it just bums me out."
"A big draw of video games is time away from the [ __ ] of the world and now time and time again microtransactions, loot boxes, ridiculous cosmetics, advertisements are now being aggressively shoved down our throats in our video games."
"Ubisoft doesn't seem to have any sort of shame towards trying every single way to make more money off of their customers."
"The last decade of games has been profoundly disappointing."
"What fallout 76 needs right now are major updates and fixes or a miraculous overhaul not additional forms of monetization."
"Watchdogs was now the alpha dog of video games."
"Microsoft and Activision Blizzard must be preserved to ensure that the next generation of video game Innovation and value are enhanced through competition and not stifled through consolidation."
"Genuinely, I think Argentina or Portugal will win. I think Messi or Ronaldo will win it."
"Few video game developers inspired as much reverence as the Massachusetts-based Looking Glass Studios."
"His legacy on the video game industry cannot be overstated."
"Signing a deal with Sony was, that was the ultimate, that was the ideal for an independent developer."
"If Activision Blizzard starts to unionize... that should realistically spark a wave across the industry."
"Platinum games won't lose too much steam coming off the failure of babylon's fall."
"Assassin's Creed is not in decline in the ways that matter in quality and treat, and that will keep the franchise around for a long time to come."
"The sixth generation pretty much had a lot of creative ideas for games."
"The videogame industry, folks. This is what it is. It’s a truly fucked up business, and it’s rotten to the fucking core."
"But if Paralives can provide a better gaming experience without going overboard on monetisation and DLC. Then it could prove to be a great alternative."
"It's clear that dice is a shadow of its former self with some even arguing that dice shouldn't even be the name of the studio anymore with almost all of the leads that worked on the likes of battlefield 3 and 4 leaving the studio in recent years."
"Recently, when President Trump implicated violent video games in mass shootings, shares of major video game companies fell sharply."
"Money-grubbing: microtransactions, day one DLC, and shovelware."
"Xbox is doing well and they're positioned well for the future, and I'm glad that they're led by someone who is willing to delay video games rather than push them out before they're ready."
"There was something that was so painfully real about this very drunk woman who's trying to act sober."
"I think Rockstar does their best social commentary in period settings."
"AAA gaming isn't without its fault... for every Persona 5 Royal that you have, you've got every AAA soulless game."
"I believe Grand Theft Auto made more money than any music or movie Project in the history of the world."
"By the time Final Fantasy 15 was released, only around 15% of the revenue was coming from Japan."
"Atari says sales of VCS consoles and cartridges fell from 2.3 million dollars Euros in Revenue to 0.2 million."
"OverWatch 2 represents everything wrong with the industry and Activision Blizzard King."
"The price of AAA games is absolutely absurd."
"Shame on the CD Projekt Red executives for just lying to our faces."
"Hello there, I'm AJ Aonuma, producer of The Legend of Zelda series."
"Halo Combat Evolved: A game so influential it created a multi-billion dollar franchise, revolutionized the FPS genre, and is credited as being the biggest reason why Microsoft was able to grab a foothold in the video game industry."
"Valve did announce yesterday that it has been delayed but only by two months."
"Call me a nationalist, but I take some pride in knowing that North American RPG developers have gone from a quaint novelty... to full-on running the fuckin' show."
"I don’t know what Nintendo has to do to make a localization work, but what I do know is that this is a game that deserves to be released."
"Overall, I'm feeling pretty dang optimistic about Sonic the Hedgehog going forward."
"Good job really because at the time it was made GTA 5 costs a whopping 265 million dollars to create."
"This is gonna be like the defining game of Sips Co Games."
"Crunch is the result of bad management masquerading as normal and acceptable business practices."
"I've never been more consistently disappointed by a company than Game Freak for Pokémon."
"Kojima Productions is very happy with the sales of Death Stranding."
"This sort of opens the doors for potentially less expensive development."
"I would be more excited to see Naughty Dog be like, 'We're doing something brand new and here's what it is.'"
"I think by that time I'd be ready for it... Right now, I would like if Naughty Dog did something new."
"The Grand Theft Auto series is one of the most high-profile top-selling video game franchises ever made."
"Chris Metzen has done more to shape the world, vibe, story, characters, and just general everything of Warcraft and especially World of Warcraft than any other human on earth." - Taliesin
"It's Bioshock, man. Bioshock to this day still left its mark in the industry."
"I was just blown away yesterday at the announcements that Insomniac made for their upcoming next-gen console video games."
"2021 has already proven to be a phenomenal year for independent video games."
"The Last of Us Part Two is unlike anything we've seen in video games before." - Greg
"Mike Watson passed away... He worked on the Saint Row 2 patch until his dying day."
"One anonymous fan bought $40,000 worth of Nintendo shares to ask during the annual shareholder meeting if they're ever gonna make a new F-Zero or Wario Land game."
"It's rare that I would ever declare a game immoral, but I think the sum total of these deliberate tactics to deceive and ensnare consumers marks a low point for Bethesda and for games in general."
"Capcom have proved that Resident Evil was going nowhere."
"At its core E3 is a double-edged sword: it's great to see new stuff, it's exciting, it's fun. But on the other side of the curtain, E3 is also a huge industrial tool that isn't always used with honesty, integrity, or consumer goodwill."
"Nintendo treats Megaman better than Capcom does."
"Bobby Kotick is no longer the head of the company at Activision Blizzard."
"In a year when most other third-party developers' efforts on the Wii were either exploitative cash grabs or non-existence, it was an unexpected breath of fresh air."
"One way or the other, it does seem like times are about to get pretty lean for Blizzard Entertainment."
"Nintendo was the undisputed king of not just family games, not just platformers, but ALL VIDEO GAMES."
"10 bucks simply doesn't buy you this kind of entertainment from video games anymore."
"From its breathtaking historical worlds and massive global appeal as one of the best-selling video game franchises of all time, we are committed to carefully crafting epic and thrilling entertainment based on this distinct IP."
"Elden Ring is a once in a generation video game, a culmination of all the titles that pioneered the very genre from Software built with their own hands."
"It was such a black eye for the brand that it caused Eon Productions, the owners of the Bond IP, to suspend the secret agent from active video game duty for the last 10 years."
"Nintendo made their own luck and became one of the greatest video game companies in the world."
"I think this is almost predatory tactics from the video gaming market."
"Montpellier had previously played such an integral role in putting Ubisoft's name on the international stage that the company's executives were more than happy to show their support for their latest endeavor."
"Blizzard, you're the ones who set the expectations. You're the ones who made certain promises. You're the ones who set the tone for what people expect out of the game and you are the ones who didn't deliver."
"Destiny 2 is surviving, but it's definitely not thriving."
"Somehow despite all of that, despite literally being headlines for being the worst broken remaster we've ever seen..."
"Fortnite has become such a powerhouse of a game."
"It's their right to do that, but more importantly, it's important to show Nintendo that you want to support this franchise."
"Frontiers is getting really good press, which Lost World did not, and for that reason, it’s been really fun seeing people happy about Sonic again, we don’t get to do it very often."
"Nintendo had worked hard to establish itself in the United States after the failure of Atari left many people skeptical of video games."
"The Witcher 4 seems inevitable, given the franchise's success."
"Don't pre-order video games, don't piss away your money, don't encourage Publishers to try and get away with launching [__] show unfinished product."
"Happy, good job. Now I'm not saying that some deviantART weirdo has snuck their way into a prominent position at hello games development staff."
"We live in a world where we don't have full games anymore at release."
"We make the big budget triple-A games that are going to move the industry"
"Cloud Chamber is a new studio under 2k that is going to be taking over the Bioshock franchise."
"Communication from ArenaNet has improved a lot recently, marking a potential massive change in direction for the company."
"Fallen Order is the start of a different EA."
"Bethesda prepares to move under Microsoft as a subsidiary."
"There's an interesting follow-on effect of video games sales when games fluctuate in quality a bit."
"Sure, ignorance might have been understandable about 30 years ago, but even today, TV and Film still have no clue how to represent this monumentally successful entertainment industry."
"There has been a trend for a while now where games released either seemingly unfinished or just kind of bare-bones."
"EA Originals program is good, that's like one small bastion of doing something positive for the gaming community in the gaming industry."
"Grand Theft Auto I've said it a million times now but the 3d era titles set the benchmark for nonlinear gameplay."
"Embracer has a catalog of over 200 game franchises."
"Square Enix finds itself at a crucial crossroads."
"We are at long last, we're in a golden age of video games."
"As an SIE first party studio we will have the opportunity to collaborate with some of the world's most renowned development teams." - Jade Raymond
"It's not by chance that you see so many 90 plus blockbusters from Sony." - Jade Raymond
"Modern warfare is going to be a Call of Duty game that does not have a paid season pass."
"Epic Games buys Psyonix, joining the Epic family."
"3 million units sold, big things there for the Warriors franchise."
"Last of Us Part Two took home a game of the year win yesterday."
"If No Man's Sky can come back from the brink then any game can."
"The GTA franchise has delivered plenty of excellent and influential games, but its fifth main entry is arguably its best."
"I think we're extraordinarily fortunate to live these rarefied existences where we are literally paid to play video games."
"GTA 6 is gonna blow GTA 5 away, guys. It's gonna blow it away."
"Kenna: Bridge of Spirits is a new IP from Ember Lab."
"Nintendo is committed to passing on the fun and excitement of video games to each of our customers."
"Payday 2 was able to recover from the crippling blows it was dealt by the black market update among other things."
"Our journey begins in 2006 when Brandon Beck and Marc Merril, also known as Ryze and Tryndamere, founded Riot games together."
"I hope they get popular looking for really good ideas giving them the money and letting them do their work... I hope they're they get big enough to where they can literally [__] slap EA."
"It's difficult enough being a game developer but to add on top of that this sort of sexualization or dateability thing for women just makes it so much harder for them."
"Playing most AAA games and knowing behind the scenes some of the people who work on them and the sort of things that are demanded of them, it’s hard for me to want to work in that industry."
"Next year's about to be one of the craziest years for video games of all time."
"Capcom USA has done an amazing job because they took what was a giant garbage fire disaster of a launch for a huge triple-a fighting game and made it successful."
"This honestly is just a really big deal for me personally. I love Atlas like to death."
"One of the best remasters executed in the industry."
"I'm actually really excited to see what more happens with the 'Xenoblade' franchise."
"Loot boxes are now endemic in the video game industry."
"I really got into writing for video games partly by accident."
"I think there should be new gambling regulation made specifically for video games just like it was for slots when they became a thing."
"Mario is mr. video after all so unlicensed Mario games come by the Dozen no matter what console you're looking at."
"There's amazing things happening in the world of video games."
"They stole this from the Intellivision and the ColecoVision for the 5200 and just never put it away."
"I think it's safe to say that World of Warcraft will always be around in some form."
"Hideo Kojima is one of the few video game designers that needs no introduction."
"The overall point I want to make is that it took quite some time for Sony to realize that actually they have this incredible lineup of genuinely amazing exclusives."
"A side note: can we get LA Noire 2 or some kind of spiritual successor?"
"I love it, I love it. I like the Nintendo staff meeting, they're like, 'Alright, we got Yoshi's—how do we make them more lovable?'"
"I'm not as Doom and Gloom as a lot of people are about such things. I do think Rockstar can still make good stuff ultimately."
"It is the best shave I've ever had outside of the straight razor."
"The video game industry over the next couple of decades is going to lead the way."
"Who's a video game director that is awesome?"
"There's no reason these games can't continue growing."
"As for commercial success while it was a record-breaking Kickstarter in terms of a standalone product Shenmue 3 was pretty much a failure at retail." - Narrator
"There are some monumentally talented people working in the video game industry."
"He's considered to be the John Williams of video game music."