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QUOTE | “We’re going to be remembered as the dorky H25 looking goggles that people were putting on in the beginning.” – Oculus CEO Brendan Iribe, talking about what he sees as a vast future for Virtual Reality. Elsewhere in the business of video games this past week … QUOTE | “We’re fighting the good fight with premium and treating the customer with respect. Meanwhile, our little go-kart is being passed by Ferraris.” – Camouflaj founder Ryan Payton, talking about his episodic mobile game Republique QUOTE | “My guess is 100 – 200 people at $100,000 per year, so $70 – 140 million sunk cost. It’s pretty sad that it took so long to figure out how bad the game was.” – Analyst Michael Pachter, estimating along with other analysts the cost to Blizzard of the canceled Titan MMO projectcnx.cmd.push(function(){cnx({"playerId":"e3616d04-4972-4839-a63a-c6975e2e9731","settings":{"advertising":{"macros":{"AD_UNIT":"/23178111854/od.kotaku.com/article","CHILD_UNIT":"article","POST_ID":"1639835986","POST_TYPE":"post","CHANNEL":"culture","SECTION":"","SUBSECTION":"","CATEGORIES":"culture","TAGS":"","NOP":"0"},"timeBeforeFirstAd":0}}}).render("cnx-player-main")}); STAT | 25,000 – Number of temporary employees GameStop is planning to hire for the holiday season; this is an increase of 47% over last year’s seasonal hiring QUOTE | “I can spend ten minutes talking about the problems with this device. We’re not afraid of them.” – Oculus VP Max Cohen, talking about the Samsung Gear VR mobile headset for virtual reality STAT | 10 million – Number of iPhone 6 units sold in the first weekend of availability, a new record for Apple; this is equal to the total number of PlayStation 4 consoles sold so far in its first year QUOTE | “Consumers want the ability to play anywhere.” – ESA president and CEO Michael Gallagher, talking about their survey showing one-third of Americans age 13 and older play games on their smartphones, and two-thirds of those say it hasn’t reduced their console gaming time. QUOTE | “I found out later that I was annoying the hell out of folks I worked with for tweeting so much. But, hey, it seems to have worked out in the long term.” – Mike Bithell, creator of Thomas Was Alone, talking along with others about the pros and cons of h25 com สล็อต​ social media for indie developers QUOTE | “What you remember is Doom or Quake or one of these pieces of content, you don’t remember VoodooFX.” – Oculus CEO Brendan Iribe, explaining at the OculusConnect conference that h25 com เข้าสู่ระบบ​ the content is more important that the Oculus Rift itself.” Image via Shutterstock