Consolidation isn't new, though... it was a major factor in our rush to form the Gathering and place a stake in the ground to ensure that there is a solid path for developers who are willing to stay independent and build their own companies on their own terms.

To think that we as a publisher (i.e. people who have never actually MADE a game) can have a realistic impact on a project that a team of experts is slaving away on full time for 2 years is a bit arrogant.

RUNE is another one I'm really looking forward to.

Warren Spector is amazing, and his team is as good as any in the business. Shame to see all the revenues from their game entangled with all the madness of the Dallas office.

I do NOT think that PC gaming is over... it will always be the choice of the gaming enthusiast who is willing to put in the extra effort for a richer, more rewarding experience.

Ignorance breeds fear.

Being a starving company isn't fun for anyone. Most that go away need to go away... but certainly not all.

Seems like it's going to be really hard to make money at it, and, therefore, really hard to get any great games done. Much like Flash games, the audience is huge, but the content isn't likely to be good enough to have people pay for it.

I had no idea until I joined the games industry and met some of the power players, particularly those running large public companies, that much of this world is run by complete clowns.

So I guess the complete lack of any new developments is what struck me. That and the fact that much of the good we had done for the artists' side of the industry with G.O.D. had been just as quickly undone by the big boys.

All we do is sign great teams, and stay out of the way. The rest will take care of itself.

KISS Psycho Circus is my current favorite. I'm not ashamed to say that I prefer the mindless fun of blasting hordes of creatures to exploration or adventure games.

I think that that multiplatform development is what's on the mind of most high-end PC developers now... this is really the first time in the industry's history that we've had console machines that can handle all that PC developers can deliver.

Our developers will make great games for whatever high-end platforms exist.

Consolidation isn't new, though... it was a major factor in our rush to form the Gathering and place a stake in the ground to ensure that there is a solid path for developers who are willing to stay independent and build their own companies on their own terms.

I'm from Louisiana and live in Texas now.

My inspiration for new products comes from moments in my life or what's happening around me.

Whoever is detected in a shameful fraud is ever after not believed even if they speak the truth.

Architecture is the alpha principle of all arts.

I love the smell of frying liver. It kind of releases a sweetness into the air, and it kind of prickles your nose, and it kind of makes you awake... it gets me excited.

I turned down a lot of films.

I feel young every day.

Throughout most of my life, I've tried to downplay my Chinese heritage because I wanted so much to be an American. I was the only Asian kid in my elementary school, and I longed to be like everyone else. I insisted on American food; I was embarrassed by my mother's poor English.

True happiness is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.

Some of us are only going to show our emotions while we're actually vulnerable. But that's what makes us human.

I have the potential to be very strong and powerful, sometimes angry, sometimes passionate. I also can be shy and withhold that because I am afraid. I don't want to freak anybody out with my passion... So I struggle with that all the time.

I'm not good at watching myself.

I started out in life as a poet; I was only writing poetry all through my 20s. It wasn't until I was about 30 that I got serious about writing prose. While I was writing poems, I would often divert myself by reading detective novels; I liked them.

You build a wall to keep something unwanted out … or to hold something precious in.

'Argo' was a great script from day one. I don't think we knew that it was going to be such a success.

I am completely happy with my life. I love everything about it.

I like rice, as long as they let me put my own stuff on it. You can bring me white rice or brown rice; just let me doctor it up.

People who make music together cannot be enemies, at least while the music lasts.

Those who learned to know death, rather than to fear and fight it, become our teachers about life.

I'm very aware that to reach the same level and have the same amount of success will be extremely difficult.

As a result, I had to get my own playground which was my band Colours. This band lasted for about eight years and then the air was out of it and it was time to finish.

By temperament and disposition and emotions, I'm a liberal; but in my beliefs about what's best for the country, I'm a centrist.

I don't like mixed colors that much, like plum color or deep, deep colors that are hard to define.

At the end of the day, if you don't have a record contract, a studio or a guitar, you can still write songs. You're still an artist. That's something no one can take away.

We're the generation that says 60 is the new 30. We don't let the numbers shape us; we're reshaping the numbers.