I found these in Edge a couple of months back:
Diamond on Casual Gamers:
“I’m a massive comic fan. I like the idea that it’s not massively mainstream, because the day they start writing comics for some 22-year-old posh rugby playing moron is the day the whole culture dies. The fact is that people who read comics… well I find them more intelllegent than those who don’t, and the same with videogames. So why cater to people who aren’t intrested? It’s not a massive market anyway, so let’s not taint it by dumbing down for the fuckwits”
Diamond on Eyetoy:
“There is always a problem withany game that you look like a twat playing. I would feel less embarrassed if my missus walked in to find me masturbating over bukkake porn than if she saw me play Eyetoy”
Diamond on VR:
“There are about five-gazillion soft porn films about VR, but they never managed to get that cock-based interface. It would have flown of the shelves”
Diamond on Videogame Magazines:
“I’m appalled by the lack of writing and intelligence in the magazines in general. I think the more mass amrket a machine the worse the writing. When you get the likes of official console magazines… they’ve always got fantastic covers and they’ve got stuff on the CD and you think ‘Oh great!’ and you go buy them and then they’ve got that plastic bag. The plastic bag was the most fantastic marketing invention as far as games magazines go, because you thought, ‘Fucking hell, there must be something brilliant in there because they’ve wrapped it in a plastic bag!’ Then you open it and it’s just screenshot, screenshot, screenshot, screenshot and then you come to the review and it’s just a rewording of the instruction manual.”
Diamond on Gamezville:
“I’ve got more respect for suicide bombers than I do for the people who are involved with Gamezville. It think it is just… It’s not just car crash TV, it’s a motorway pile-up involving a busload of nuns and a truckload of orphans. I just think… Fucking hell, oh, words cannot express… It’s all fucking ‘Yo mate’ I mean these guys can’t even speak fucking english. And that’s not a racist thing, they’re just morons, ugh.”
Diamond on “the intellectualisation of games”:
“[Sighs] Well, if it gives you a chubby. It’s like Nick Hornby. I think some of these things are designed to make people less guilty about enjoying things, but the fact is… Well, Nick Hornby can wirte what he likes about football, but the fact is that the greatest football player in the world, Wayne Rooney, has only basic motor neurone functions and can’t even read a traffic sign”