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Amusement is the quarterly high-range French magazine dedicated to video games and digital entertainment. Its first issue was published in May 2008. This magazine of approximately 200 pages is distributed in France and in many English-speaking countries.The magazine has been mainly lauded for the very new and artistic way to represent digital entertainment and videogames. It has been founded by Abdel Bounane and Jean-Baptiste Soufron. People interviewed Since its launch, Amusement has interviewed renowned personalities such as the science fiction writers William Gibson and Michael Moorcock, Sony Computer CEO Kaz Hirai, game designers Will Wright, Tetsuya Mizuguchi, David Cage, Masachika Kawata, Kenji Eno, Keita Takahashi, Jun Takeuchi, Jordan Mechner, Guillaume de Fondaumiere, the inventor Jacque Fresco, artists Enki Bilal, Ito Morabito, Jean-Charles de Castelbajac, Miltos Manetas, Jodi, Blast Theory, Michel Gondry, Peter Molyneux, Uwe Boll, musicians Alizée, Cœur de pirate, Santigold, Yelle, Midnight Juggernauts, Phoenix, Turzi, Oxmo Puccino and actresses Sara Forestier, Alysson Paradis, Helena Noguerra and French Minister Nathalie Kosciusko-Morizet. Issues First issue : "The new player takes over" Second issue : "Castelbajac, digital creator in Spore" Third issue : "Jap/On&Off" Fourth issue : "Magic! The internet makes your magazine alive" Fifth issue : "Sara Forestier, an actress in The Sims 3" Sixth issue : "The bugged issue !" Seventh issue : "Helena Noguerra, Virtual in Heavy Rain" Eight issue : Politechnology : Politics x Digital Media coverage Amusement gained worldwide reputation in April 2009 when its 4th issue was the first magazine containing an RFID tag, connecting to the Internet and giving access to digital art and videogames exclusively for the owner of the magazine.

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“Persons without minds are like bad weeds that delight in good earth; they want to be amused by others, all the more because they are dull within.”
— Honoré de Balzac, La Peau de chagrin.
“The inhabitants have a right to take their amusements in a lawful way.”
— Heath, J., Fitch v. Fitch (1797), 2 Esp. 544; reported in James William Norton-Kyshe, Dictionary of Legal Quotations (1904), p. 13.
“Dancing, the theatre, society, card-playing, games of chance, horses, women, drinking, traveling, and so on … are not enough to ward off boredom where intellectual pleasures are rendered impossible by lack of intellectual needs.”
— Arthur Schopenhauer, “Aphorisms on the Wisdom of Life,” Parerga und Paralipomena, E. Payne, trans. (1974) Vol. 1, p. 344.
“After a few days, Willie got tired of [the water-wheel] — and no blame to him, for it was no earthly use beyond amusement, and that which can only amuse can never amuse long.”
— George MacDonald, The History of Gutta Percha Willie, the Working Genius (1873).
“Amusements are to religion like breezes of air to the flame; gentle ones will fan it, but strong ones will put it out.”
— David Thomas, p. 12.
“Recreation is not the highest kind of enjoyment; but in its time and place it is quite as proper as prayer.”
— Samuel I. Prime, p. 12.

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Notable quotes

“Persons without minds are like bad weeds that delight in good earth; they want to be amused by others, all the more because they are dull within.”
— Honoré de Balzac, La Peau de chagrin.
“The inhabitants have a right to take their amusements in a lawful way.”
— Heath, J., Fitch v. Fitch (1797), 2 Esp. 544; reported in James William Norton-Kyshe, Dictionary of Legal Quotations (1904), p. 13.
“Dancing, the theatre, society, card-playing, games of chance, horses, women, drinking, traveling, and so on … are not enough to ward off boredom where intellectual pleasures are rendered impossible by lack of intellectual needs.”
— Arthur Schopenhauer, “Aphorisms on the Wisdom of Life,” Parerga und Paralipomena, E. Payne, trans. (1974) Vol. 1, p. 344.
“After a few days, Willie got tired of [the water-wheel] — and no blame to him, for it was no earthly use beyond amusement, and that which can only amuse can never amuse long.”
— George MacDonald, The History of Gutta Percha Willie, the Working Genius (1873).
“Amusements are to religion like breezes of air to the flame; gentle ones will fan it, but strong ones will put it out.”
— David Thomas, p. 12.
“Recreation is not the highest kind of enjoyment; but in its time and place it is quite as proper as prayer.”
— Samuel I. Prime, p. 12.

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