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The computer gaming industry has grown considerably over the last few months, with new products being launched on the market, having been designed to deliver new features and essentially improve the gaming experience for gaming fans. On that note, ROCCAT Studios, a company that has been drawing attention to itself w... |
10 November 2009
03:50 GMT |
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The videogame industry has its share of speculators and fortune tellers, like any profitable business where tips are in hot demand. One of them, who has managed to make his voice heard and be taken into consideration, is Michael Pachter. This time, the Wedbush Morgan analyst predicts that Microsoft will give up on PC... |
20 October 2009
05:18 GMT |
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Randy Pitchford, the leader of Gearbox, creator of Borderlands and a known straight talker, has recently commented that Steam, the digital distribution service created and maintained by Valve, could be a problem for smaller developers because of its potential to be a monopoly and because of the conflict of interest w... |
17 October 2009
10:31 GMT |
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The current state of PC gaming isn't the best, but with the PC Gaming Alliance posting decent revenues and more and more companies joining the non-profit organization, things are looking up. Also, we've seen two of the biggest online services for the old platform, Steam and Games for Windows Live, receive n... |
27 March 2009
03:24 GMT |
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PC gaming has been plagued by a lot of analysts that proclaimed it dead and were quick to deem consoles as the main platforms for which developers would create games. But, as we've seen yesterday, thanks to the PC Gaming Alliance, in 2008 the PC was pretty successful and managed to generate a big amount of profi... |
25 March 2009
03:22 GMT |
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For quite some time, PC gaming has entered a cone of shadow, largely due to quite a lot of developers complaining about the high piracy rate and how people prefer to download their games off of the Internet, either legally or illegally. These developers are now focusing on bringing their games to consoles due to thei... |
24 March 2009
03:27 GMT |
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We've heard a lot about piracy in the last few months. From Nintendo highlighting the most pirate-friendly countries to the ELSPA scoring a big victory with a UK tribunal, convicting a video game pirate to one year in prison. But although you would expect the PC Gaming Alliance, a non-profit organization create... |
19 March 2009
03:37 GMT |
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Digital distribution is catching up quite quickly with the traditional brick-and-mortar retail game stores. Services such as Steam or Direct2Drive for the PC and the Xbox Live Marketplace, PlayStation Store or WiiWare Channel for consoles are beginning to replace outlets such as GameStop or Target. Another pretty im... |
17 March 2009
14:11 GMT |
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PC gaming isn't at its best right about now, as more and more companies or organizations are emphasizing the high piracy rates and developers and publishers tend to ignore it, focusing instead on the consoles where this phenomenon hasn't made its presence felt very badly. However, the PC is actually a huge... |
6 March 2009
02:28 GMT |
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PC gaming has been subject to quite a lot of controversy in recent months, as piracy has been on the lips of quite a few developers and other industry analysts, as they released lists of countries that indulge piracy and where the most users who tend to pirate new video games or software releases are found. But that... |
3 March 2009
16:51 GMT |
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Piracy has and will be a very hot topic for the gaming industry. Despite the big number of measures that developers and publishers resort to in order to keep their titles away from the hands of pirates, sooner or later things go out of their reach and into the large file sharing networks across the world, where every... |
2 March 2009
02:48 GMT |
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PC gaming has almost always been tied to a generation of Microsoft's Windows operating system. Whether it was 95, 98 or the more recent XP or Vista, the Redmond giant was responsible for the main platform on which developers brought their video games. Windows XP has been and still is the preferred platform for ... |
28 February 2009
03:21 GMT |
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PC gaming has entered these recent few years in a cone of shadow largely due to the fact that piracy and the troubles encountered with the different configurations have made developers adopt consoles as their main platforms.But this doesn't mean that games don't sell on the PC, as we have just received the ... |
19 February 2009
02:48 GMT |
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The PC gaming industry has always been the benchmark of performance and quality in games but as consoles, like the Nintendo Wii, the Xbox 360 and the PlayStation 3, are becoming more and more powerful hardware-wise, a lot of critics are saying that PC gaming will eventually die.Although quite a lot of effort has been... |
15 December 2008
07:01 GMT |
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The PC gaming market has been following a slow downward trend these past years, partly because of the high rate of piracy and because the consoles have gained a massive amount of popularity. More and more developers and publishers choose either to bring their games onto the PC at a later time than on the consoles or,... |
5 December 2008
02:34 GMT |
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Gaming industry analysts and critics have been stating for some time now that PC gaming would get slower and slower and people start to migrate to consoles for their gaming needs. Although PC gaming is still going strong, publishers are getting more and more hesitant to bringing their games to this pla... |
30 October 2008
13:01 GMT |
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Cliff Bleszinski is the guy behind one of the most successful shooters developed for the Xbox 360, Gears of War. Now as the clock draws near to the launch of the sequel to that game, he decided to stress the importance it would have on the market and for the players. He also brought up the problem of piracy in ... |
30 September 2008
02:46 GMT |
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One of the most persistent images regarding games and gamers in the last 10 years has been that of the hardcore FPS player, with one hand on the WASD keys and the other on the mouse, playing one of the more iconic FPS games, be it Quake II or the most recent Unreal Tournament.Recently a shift of FPS players from PCs ... |
20 March 2008
05:10 GMT |
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