
I make video games for the so-so company Namco Bandai Games Inc.
Or, erm, did. Mr. Katamari himself, Keita Takahashi badmouths his employers to The Setup.

You may actually find some of the features erotic or sexy. But that's not our intention, really.
For example, Aya, as she continues to fight, sometimes what she's wearing gets ripped and torn to reveal more of her skin, which lots of gamers may find quite sexy.
You all disgust Yoshinori Kitase. [Eurogamer]

I just heard that PC Zone will be shutting down the presses after seventeen years, and I can't decide if I'm heartbroken or pissed off. Both, I think.
It's back! Although PC Zone never will be- and Epic Games president Mike Capps has to come to terms with it. [CVG]

My present-day fascination with videogames does not derive from personal affection. I prefer working out and skiing to playing videogames. But that's a personal preference, not a value judgment. I happen to think that videogames are an ideal means to help broaden the imaginations of young people.
Mayor of Quahog Adam West weighs in on those new-fangled vidyagames in 1983. [1UP]

Most people think that Home is shit. I'm here to say that it's not.
"Most"? [Kirk Ewing talking at Game In Scotland, via CVG]

I think micro-transactions probably don't make sense for a game like StarCraft II. Unless we decide to do something much more extensive with player profiles, then maybe we'll evaluate it.
Frank Pearce of Blizzard hasn't got his eyes on your wallet just yet.[Eurogamer]

At the moment, disc based content is still very much what the consumer is used to and wants
SCEE's Andrew House on the subject of a digitally distributed future. It's never Lupus!, etc. [CVG]

You never should have made it. It was never going to work anyway. It didn't work on the Wii for a reason. That category didn't. Why did you think it was going to work on this one as well?
Sony's Rob Dyer puts the Moves on developers planning on porting their Wii catalogue to PS3. [Gamasutra]

If you're a parent and buy one of our games for your child you're a terrible parent.
Lazlow, who works on the GTA games and does the radio stations for them, fields BBC reader Heather Prue's questions about ye olde violence debate in an interview about Red Dead Redemption.

It’s not based on anything we have heard about
An Unnamed Daily Mail spokesperson tells Develop where their statistic that Red Dead Redemption cost $100million to make came from. The Daily Mail publishing stuff it's made up? Perish the thought!
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