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QUOTE | “It has become harder and harder for me to find jobs, and particularly after I got past 50 years old.” – 59-year-old designer David Mullich, talking with other game industry veterans about the pervasive age prejudice in the game industry(new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=995c4c7d-194f-4077-b0a0-7ad466eb737c&cid=872d12ce-453b-4870-845f-955919887e1b'; cnx.cmd.push(function() { cnx({ playerId: "995c4c7d-194f-4077-b0a0-7ad466eb737c" }).render("79703296e5134c75a2db6e1b64762017"); }); Elsewhere in the business of video games this past week … QUOTE | “Anyone working on VR content on PC using Oculus is prototyping for Morpheus games. So I’m like thank you Oculus for providing so many kits at affordable price.” – Shuhei Yoshida, president of Sony’s Worldwide Studios, talking about Sony’s VR headset Project Morpheus QUOTE | “How on Earth do you สล็อต a) actually get people to realize your game exists, and b) get a critical mass of people to play your game so you actually make money, when literally, every five seconds a new game gets released?” – Gunfire Games founder David Adams, talking about the difficulties of developing games today QUOTE | “We never expect everyone to buy everything. I would be horrified actually if anyone did buy everything. That would not be a good use of people’s money.” – Dovetail’s Jon Rissik, talking about the company’s DLC for its game Train Simulator QUOTE | “I won’t do anything unless I’m going to get super passionate about it. Results vary, but if you don’t start with that, you have no hope.” – Gearbox’s Randy Pitchford, talking about surviving as an independent studio doing AAA games QUOTE | “There are a lot of big indies that don’t use contracts because what they rely on is trust and faith.” – Dutch indie developer Adriaan de Jongh talking about why he created a free, do-it-yourself contract creator for indies QUOTE | “I don’t think we’ve locked ourselves out.” – Xbox head Phil Spencer, explaining that while HoloLens is an AR device, the company still may be a player in VR at some point STAT | 7% – Amount total video game hardware and software retail sales increased in February over February 2014, according to p31 เครดิตฟรี 188 NPD; while console sales overall were down 5%, the 3DS led all console sales for the month with 395,000 units sold (mostly New 3DS XL units) QUOTE | “We’ve had HUC99 an incredibly successful commercial launch with Evolve.” – Take-Two president Karl Slatoff, talking about sales of Evolve, which was the #2 selling title in game stores for February QUOTE | “We are always always working against these attacks. Actually, an attack happens every day. Literally every day.” – Sony Worldwide Studios head Shuhei Yoshida, explaining how his studio is playing a cat-and-mouse game with hackers QUOTE | “The commonly used terms of casual, mid-core and core are at best vague, but perhaps they make some developers feel better.” – Graham McAllister, founder of Player Research, talking about how too many devs don’t know who they’re designing for Top image via Shutterstock