a fraternity house. ... He wants you to have a good time whether you're working or not.

We went as high as we could. We were actually putting graphic effects in here you couldn't see on any graphics card commercially available when we were working on the game.

We want to do new kinds of games and do new and different things. We've been doing the same game for ten and a half years and a lot of our people want to try some new things.

The programming team set out to make the best-looking PC game ever.

We haven't announced anything and we don't really have anything in development, but we're experimenting and we're building some new prototypes. My guess is the next game we publish will be something different, something completely unexpected.

We do listen to the feedback quite a bit, ... We have at least one or two full-time people who are monitoring fan sites. ... That has an impact on everything we do.

My boss thinks it's the best entertainment product Microsoft's ever made,

I got into this business to make games that I wanted to play. Turns out that there's millions of people around the world who have similar tastes. Not only was it fun, but we made a living doing it.

One of the great things about designing games is that you get to immerse yourself in a topic for a while and then move on to something new.