Activision Blizzard has announced that it has left the PC Gaming Alliance, which is devoted to protecting the interests of the developers creating videogames for the platform, with manufacturing company Acer also following suit. Neither of the two companies has said why it has chosen to leave the PCGA, but it might h... |
16 April 2009
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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
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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
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Capcom is one of the most talked about companies in the recent few weeks. Following the very successful launch of Street Fighter IV, which is breaking records left and right, the publisher has also announced that it plans to create and release a Lost Planet 2 and one of its main designers talked about how the shift t... |
9 March 2009
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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
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The gaming industry is forever changing, with trends appearing and disappearing in a relatively short time frame. As opposed to a few years ago, when the PC was the primary target for a lot of game developers and publishers, now, because of the growing phenomenon of piracy on it, a lot of companies are turning their ... |
4 February 2009
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Developers are beginning to slowly back away from the PC as their favorite design platform. Their main motivation is the fact that piracy is getting bigger and bigger for this platform, although it affects the Xbox 360 as well. The huge number of different PC configurations makes the development process very troubles... |
20 October 2008
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Blizzard has seen a lot of coverage lately, mainly because of the fact that it announced the development of Diablo III, one of the most anticipated games of the decade. One thing that slipped under the radar for most commentators was the fact that the game is set to come out for PC and Mac only, with Blizzard complet... |
1 July 2008
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Microsoft corporate vice president John Schappert signed an open letter targeted at gamers all over the world, describing how Microsoft supports game development on different platforms and the PC is still one of the most important markets for the company. Considering the mind set the "PC gaming is dead" which seems t... |
27 June 2008
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Rick Carini, Chief Technology Officer of gaming technologies at Dell, thinks that people "get fed up and don't buy PC games any more". Why are his remarks important to gamers? Well, Carini happens to be the chair of the recently created PC Gaming Alliance, which brings together major players in the PC hardware a... |
25 June 2008
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