A lot of the interesting issues and dynamics within a city occur over things such as socio-economic issues or ethnic issues. But they require a much more elaborate model of human behavior.

We have spent quite a bit of time considering a good space game, and I can't really say anything at this point, but we are definitely still interested in that area.

It's rewarding to be able to change people's perceptions of reality, ... They just see their environment in a different way. They have a kind of different-colored glasses that they can see their world in. To me, that's really cool - when games can change you.

Because now it's the fans out there that are entertaining us, the developers, with their creations!

Television is a very different thing from video games. It's kind of hard for me to compare.

No game designer ever went wrong by overestimating the narcissism of their players.

The new generation of consoles has as much power to do the kind of games that we do as the PC does.