Modern Voices

Competitive Chat

When you think about it, it's a little bit like competitive Twittering.

-- MTV's digital team
re: BackChannel, MTV's microblogging-tv mashup

Grand Theft Auto Good for the Economy

"Grand Theft Auto IV single-handedly propped up the U.K. economy."

-- Ben Feder, CEO Take-Two Interactive Software

based on $98.2M Q2 profit from launch of the game

Online Environments can Seduce You

“These online environments are structured such that they reward and seduce you to perform complex, tedious tasks.” How difficult would it be for developers to embed real work into these environments?”

--Nick Yee, Standford University

source

Media Companies Go Where They Haven't Before

"If 18- to 34-year olds are spending more time playing video games then that's where the media companies are going to go."
-- Alan Gould, media analyst, Natexis Bleichroeder