Best Games Quotes of the Week - May 26

We do this every week. We dig our arms into the roiling muck and scoop up big handfuls of stories about video games and sift through them until there's nothing left but a few precious nuggets. Then we gnaw at them with our black teeth before laughing and cavorting into town to get drunk and fleeced and shot dead in the street. It's not an easy life, but it's a life. Dig in pardners.

His Own Son

“One happy accident we had whilst shooting was the fact that the metro commander happened to have a child who was the exact age we were looking for, for the baby, so in the film, the baby that is passed to the guard is actually his own son.”

The best moment of the best trailer of the week just got better.

IGN

Choosing this Person

"We're not trying to put anyone on a pedestal. We're trying to create our fiction as game developers, as creators. Choosing this person, somebody who has met with leaders, and has run black operations, and understands that was really valuable to have that sort of first-hand account from him.”

Treyarch head Mark Lamia, justifies working with Oliver North, one-time supplier arms to Iran.

Kotaku

Games Make Life Better

Image: Martin Darby

“Games are belief engines. Games are canvases for stories in motion. Games are a challenge and a learning activity. Games are ideas. Games are explorations both intellectual and meaningful. Games are positive. Games make life better. Games help you feel success when all around you is grey and confusing. Games are change.”

Game developer Tadhg Kelly takes on the big questions, on his blog.

What Games Are

Suspending Playing

"A method for use in advertising includes initiating playing of interactive content, suspending playing go the interactive content, displaying an advertisement, and resuming playing of the interactive content."

Evil comes in the bland form of a patent filing. Sony’s plan to put ads in front of your game experience.

GamesIndustry International

Demise of Guys

“Is the overuse of video games and pervasiveness of online porn causing the demise of guys?”

Psychologist Dr. Philip Zimbardo writes an article for CNN on how porn and games are ruining young men particularly in sexual success.

CNN

I Discovered Porn

“I struck out with women LONG before I discovered porn and video games.”

IGN reader Scattershot1 offers a stunning rebuttal.

Scattershot1



Source : http://www.ign.com