I spoke at TED Global 2010 about the ways that video games engage the brain, and in particular, the idea of reward structures: how a challenge or task can be broken down and presented to make it as engaging as possible.
I don’t play video games because I know that if I ever started, I’d never be able to maintain a career again.
The only time I waste is time I spend doing something that, in my gut, I know I shouldn’t. If I choose to spend time playing video games or sleeping in, then it’s time well spent, because I chose to do it. I did it for a reason – to relax, to decompress or to feel good, and that was what I wanted to do.
Video games are so popular these days, getting the opportunity to star in one is something special. More people should do it.
Doing narration is a totally different art form. I do some video games, and some that I’ve done are iconic.
Children need to move to develop their brain; it’s a natural urge. That’s why boys will run after a ball and play soccer despite how many video games are available to them, and they can’t help themselves from building with Lego bricks as well. They want to be creating something that’s uniquely their own.
I’m not even very good at most video games.
I think video games are a great kind of entertainment. They have replaced a lot of games people normally play with their friends and neighbours, like Monopoly.
I played video games for years. I immersed myself in them. They’re so beautiful. They have these gorgeous imaginary landscapes. And they were just very dear to me.
When I was 15, 16, 17 years old, I spent five hours a day juggling, and I probably spent six hours a day seriously listening to music. And if I were 16 now, I would put that time into playing video games.
I spent six figures of my own money to get a tour bus and do a fan tour for my second album. I surprised fans at their houses, and we’d eat food and play video games.
I always felt really guilty if I spent too much time playing video games. It’s a colossal waste of time. And I can’t say it’s a very satisfying feeling at the end of the day, if you’ve spent eight hours playing a video game; you just end up feeling kind of spent, and used.
I love video games.
Video games and computers have become babysitters for kids.
I’m a huge ‘Call of Duty’ fan, ‘Minecraft’ and all those kinds of video games. I’m constantly playing video games every day.
I play a lot of video games, and I go to the gym.
The last time I played video games was ‘Space Invaders.’
Video games are ubiquitous now.
My experience with video games is a far cry from ‘WWE 2K17.’ Did I ever aspire to be that character? Man, I just wanted to be a hero to kids. Whether it’s a character in a video game, a movie or a TV series, it’s an accolade that I’m greatly appreciative of.
My older brother Billy was really into video games, and of course I followed suit. I was such a dork – I was so geeky!
I remember the Vince Carter Raptor days: playing all the video games with him. Playing against him is one thing; having a chance to learn from him is a whole – another level of excitement.
I miss video games where the jump-kick was the trickiest combo to master.
Look around on your next plane trip. The iPad is the new pacifier for babies and toddlers. Younger school-aged children read stories on smartphones; older boys don’t read at all, but hunch over video games. Parents and other passengers read on Kindles or skim a flotilla of email and news feeds.
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.
Zombies are always moving fast in video games. It makes sense if you think about it. Those games are all about hand-eye coordination and how quickly can you get them before they get you.
I would love to make video games.
I’ve always liked Liverpool. I’d play a lot of video games, and I’d be them, because they played in red, like Independiente, my first club, Arsenal, or Chelsea.
Growing up, I was restricted at home from playing video games until I reached university.
For the most part, I think video games do a good job of capturing the essence of boxing. However, I’d like to continue to see them push the realism, emphasizing the skill involved.
It’s weird that, in a way, by writing about video games, I get to develop them, too.
The video game culture was an important thing to keep alive in the film because we’re in a new era right now. The idea that kids can play video games like Grand Theft Auto or any video game is amazing. The video games are one step before a whole other virtual universe.
I always have said from the beginning of my career that I was going for the ‘Geek Trifecta’ because I’m such a total geek. I want to be in everything that has to do with the things that I enjoyed when I was a kid, which was ‘Battlestar Galactica,’ and being in ‘Big Bang Theory,’ and being in video games.
Nintendo has paid a great deal of attention to the dynamic of people playing video games together in the same room.
I started a podcast about ‘X-Files’ and ended up on it. Then I started a podcast about video games, and I’m in the new ‘Mass Effect’ game. I have to pick the stuff I love and do a podcast on it.
Why are video games so violent? The ones I’ve seen remind me of the 4th of July, with everything exploding, buildings, cars, airplanes, men and women. Kill, kill, and kill for sport and entertainment.
You see all the greats, people who were idols of mine growing up. You see those guys on the cover of video games.
I’m a competitive guy, and I love the competitive nature of video games.
My nerdy pursuits are more like video games, Dungeons and Dragons, stuff like that.
I have a company in the U.K., a performance-capture studio. We’re looking to push the boundaries of performance-capture technology in film and video games, but also in live theater, using real-time performance capture with actors onstage, and combining that with holographic imagery.
Personally, I really enjoy sci-fi. I watch it, I read comic books, and I play video games. I love this kind of world, so to be able to work in it is a dream. I enjoy it.
I think the thing we see is that as people are using video games more, they tend to watch passive TV a bit less. And so using the PC for the Internet, playing video games, is starting to cut into the rather unbelievable amount of time people spend watching TV.
I actually got into ‘Ultraman’ through the video games first, before I realized they were based on something. You remember how they had those fighting Ultraman video games? That’s how I got into it. Then I started watching the show. Their kaiju look so weird.
If I wake up at 6 A. M. to work out, I’m done at 10 A. M.. Most guys play video games all day.
I like video games. I like tech. I like travel. I like my dog. I like food. I’m like, ‘That’s what I’m going to focus on.’
All we do when we’re not making music is play video games, eat food and see movies.
While films are a very visual and emotional artistic medium, video games take it one step further into the realm of a unique personal experience.
Films are pushing envelopes in terms of what is horrific, but also on other areas: in video games, in comic books and outside life.
Growing up, I ate, slept and breathed hockey. I got home from school, I shot pucks, played outdoor hockey, road hockey, go home for dinner… Remember this is pre-Internet, barely any video games, I had a Commodore Vic-20. If you weren’t doing your homework, you were outside playing hockey, most likely.
‘Wii Music’ elevates the scope of music video games by moving beyond commentary on what music is – as ‘Rock Band’ and ‘Guitar Hero’ do – to suggesting what it could be. Yet I’m still left wondering: Couldn’t it be more?
My interests in the world of technology are mainly video games, but I like tech as a means to help solve big issues, such as the demands on natural resources.
My son is 14. He watches these ‘let’s play’ videos, people playing other in video games. At first, I was bothered by it, I didn’t get it, but at the end of the day, if you go back when I was a kid, I watched much worse. These videos are more entertaining and more interesting than the bad ’80s TV.
I like to play video games like ‘Rock Band’ and ‘Guitar Hero.’
I loved Japanese culture before even realizing it was, in fact, Japanese culture. The cartoons and anime I was watching as a child, my favorite video games, and even in pro wrestling – my favorite wrestlers and matches originated in Japan.
You look at the violence that is there in entertainment, in video games, and don’t just go say, ‘We’re going to do an assault weapons ban, and that’s going to solve the problem,’ because it is not going to get to the root of the problem.
I don’t like video games.
I’ve always loved video games. I played ‘Ms. Pac-man’ with my dad, and I Ioved ‘Galaga’ and ‘Tempest’ and grew up on the standing arcade games. Even to this day, my dad will call me if he’s playing ‘Ms. Pac-man’ and hold the phone up to the game.
Obviously the thing that’s cool about games – a basketball game is just a basketball game. The thing about video games is that each different video game can be in a completely different genre.
