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Why are online games so addictive? It's mostly the narcotic appeal of 'leveling.' -- Clive Thompson
I have a little obsessive-compulsive personality. You can tell because I played online games for eight hours a day. -- Felicia Day
Virtual currencies, used to buy digital goods inside online games, have become an integral part of the Internet landscape. -- Ryan Holmes
Predators will look for any way to talk to children online whether through sites like Myspace, instant messaging, or even online games. -- Mike Fitzpatrick
My goal for the next decade is to try to make it as easy to save the world in real life as it is to save the world in online games. -- Jane McGonigal
Not having the online game has made it more difficult. There are a lot of young and upcoming players in poker. But you don't get to see them because TV has sort of been taken away. -- Chris Moneymaker
Online console gaming will continue to grow at a healthy pace. -- Trip Hawkins
Online games for data-mining have a short virtual shelf life. People get bored, especially if the game seems stagnant. -- Peter Diamandis
I foresee online gaming changing when there are good audio-visual links connecting the participants, thus approximating play in a face-to-face group. -- Gary Gygax
When parents or gamers ask me, 'What's the best game to play?' I say that playing face-to-face is more beneficial than playing online. -- Jane McGonigal
There is technology where you can watch the match live online and also on TV. If people understood the game, I'm sure we would have a lot of chess fans by now. -- Viswanathan Anand
Chess: It's like alcohol. It's a drug. I have to control it, or it could overwhelm me. I have a regular Monday night game at my home, and I do play a little online. -- Charles Krauthammer
The idea of the 'lone gamer' is really not true anymore. Up to 65 percent of gaming now is social, played either online or in the same room with people we know in real life. -- Jane McGonigal
We didn't have our online service developed. We had never shipped a console game before as a company. So we were developing a lot of new competencies as a company and assembling a new team. -- J Allard
Online harassment, especially gendered online harassment, is an epidemic. Women are being driven out; they're being driven offline. This isn't just in gaming. This is happening across the board online, especially with women who participate in or work in male-dominated industries. -- Anita Sarkeesian
When Apple introduced its game-changing iPhone in 2007, Nokia was caught sleeping on the job. Although it had actually developed an iPhone-style device - complete with a color touchscreen, maps, online shopping, the lot - some seven years earlier. Astonishingly, it never released the product. -- Noreena Hertz
An awful lot of successful technology companies ended up being in a slightly different market than they started out in. Microsoft started with programming tools, but came out with an operating system. Oracle started doing contracts for the CIA. AOL started out as an online video gaming network. -- Marc Andreessen
I used to game a lot, you know, back in the day. My gaming time done got so short that my skills ain't where they need to be to be online, you know what I'm saying? I just got that Xbox One. I gotta get my skills back, up the par to call myself a gamer. -- Ice Cube
When good media takes a bounded form, and comes once in a period of time, it begs to be consumed as a whole - it creates an engaging experience. We don't dip in and out of an episode of 'Game of Thrones,' after all - we take it in as a whole. Why have we abandoned this concept when it comes to publications, simply because they exist online? -- John Battelle
There will be a few people who will resent the fact you have to be online to play a single-player game. But it'll change. -- Tim Willits

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