I like video games, but they’re really violent. I’d like to play a video game where you help the people who were shot in all the other games. It’d be called ‘Really Busy Hospital.

Hard fun is, of course, the idea that we take pleasure in accomplishing something difficult: the joy in meeting and mastering a challenge. As a result, when someone is doing something that is hard fun,...

If Pac-Man had affected us as kids, we’d all be running around in dark rooms, munching pills and listening to repetitive electronic music.

The Government set the stage economically by informing everyone that we were in a depression period, with very pointed allusions to the 1930s. The period just prior to our last ‘good’ war. … Boiled down,...

I went in there only once, as a sane man, and I came out…well, I came out like this. But you, once you come out of there, you’ll be a king!

The worst thing a kid can say about homework is that it is too hard. The worst thing a kid can say about a game is it’s too easy.

Maybe I could use a little metal on the inside, I thought. If I’d kept my heart better armored, where would I be now?Easy—I’d be at home, medicating myself into a monotone. Drowning my sorrows...

My peak? Would I even have one? I hardly had had anything you could call a life. A few ripples. some rises and falls. But that’s it. Almost nothing. Nothing born of nothing. I’d loved...

Courage is the magic that turns dreams into reality.

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…he didn’t know when he was going to get the chance to play WoW again. And it was damn important to do his bit to save all life on Azeroth while he could.

A game is an opportunity to focus our energy, with relentless optimism, at something we’re good at (or getting better at) and enjoy. In other words, gameplay is the direct emotional opposite of depression.

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So basically, you get to play Super Mario all you want, any time you want, for FREE!””That is the single most amazing thing I’ve ever heard.

We are no longer worried that children are missing school because of video games, though. We are worried that they are murdering their classmates because of video games.

Just like the notion of “Internet natives”, who have never known a world without Internet access, we, who have lived our entire lives with video games, can be known as “video game natives.

When my dad was young he shot marbles. When I was young I played Marble Madness on my Nintendo Entertainment System.

Red wine is different from white. Removing the grape skin does all the difference.

Never judge a book by its cover; a movie by its book; or a video game by its movie.

If only I could handle my problems like a video-game style battle against a boss. But there are no power-ups in real life. No FTW moment when I can declare total pwnage. I don’t even...

In real life, you don’t get a reset, and you don’t get extra lives, and I got the crap pounded out of me.

I’ve discovered a new video game called owning my home.

The destructive effects of video games are not on boys’ cognitive abilities or their reaction times, but on their motivation and their connectedness with the real world.

To my knowledge, no one in or out of the field has ever been able to cite a game worthy of comparison with the great dramatists, poets, filmmakers, novelists and composers. That a game can...

I saw a news report recently that measured average video game use by American men between the ages of twenty-five and thirty-five: twenty hours per week. Do you mean the flower of America’s masculinity can’t...