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Epic Games, the studio behind massively successful franchises like Unreal Tournament or Gears of War, has confirmed that it’s now working on a game that will come out exclusively for the PC platform. Epic Games amazed lots of PC owners at the beginning of the 2000s with the stunning Unreal Tournament series, d... |
9 April 2012
14:11 GMT |
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Earlier this week we heard that Mass Effect 3 on the PC platform won’t have support for controllers or gamepads, meaning those who get the role-playing shooter on the PC will only be able to play it with a mouse and keyboard.
According to BioWare, its developer, this was due to the team not having enough time ... |
18 February 2012
15:21 GMT |
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Digital Rights Management software packed in current PC games is nowadays employed by companies just to please shareholders and investors, not to actually try and combat piracy, at least according to Fredrik Wester, the CEO of Paradox Interactive.
DRM and other such anti-piracy problems have been criticized from all... |
24 January 2012
19:31 GMT |
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Razer unveiled Project Fiona at the CES with claims that it will redefine the way PC players look at their gaming devices and the leader of the company believes that the innovation included is a sign of how the PC market can be revived.Speaking at the CES 2012 trade show Min-Liang Tan, who is the Chief Executive Offi... |
17 January 2012
02:08 GMT |
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Sennheiser surely knows a thing or two about creating high-quality audio products and recently they have taken this expertise into the PC gaming market with the PC 320 headset.The result of its collaboration with World Champion Counterstrike team mTw, Sennheiser’s PC 320 brings not just great sound to the table... |
13 January 2012
10:49 GMT |
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The winter holiday season has been extremely good to Valve’s Steam, as not only did it host a series of massive holiday sales, but it also saw more than 5 million players connected to the digital distribution service at the same time.Steam is currently the service to beat in terms of digital distribution, as Va... |
5 January 2012
02:37 GMT |
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Another analyst has revealed his forecasts concerning PC gaming in 2012. M2 Research’s Billy Pidgeon says that the PC will trump consoles in terms of popularity due to a variety of factors, including its more flexible nature, the more powerful hardware, varied online experiences, and even through its support of... |
3 January 2012
15:51 GMT |
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Gamers will start getting more and more interested in PCs, at least according to DFC Intelligence analyst David Cole, who believes that consumers will become disappointed with the lack of next-generation console announcements and just get powerful PCs in order to experience high quality games.
Quite a few analysts h... |
30 December 2011
13:31 GMT |
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CD Projekt Red, the developer of The Witcher series, has just added its voice to the ongoing piracy debate that’s been rekindled recently, and says that developers and publishers should just forget about using harsh DRM (Digital Rights Management) software, as it’s going to be hacked in no time and just e... |
2 December 2011
03:14 GMT |
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Ubisoft has once again talked about the state of PC gaming and how the rampant piracy is seriously affecting the chances of seeing some of its new titles, like I Am Alive arrive on that platform.PC gaming has seen lots of growth in recent years due to the popularity of digital distribution services like Valve’s... |
24 November 2011
17:21 GMT |
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Microsoft has taken a big step towards its next PC operating system, Windows 8, by deploying a Developer Preview version earlier this week, showcasing to everyone interested just what are the biggest features in the new OS.
As you probably saw in our special article about gaming on Windows 8, it's pretty much... |
17 September 2011
08:31 GMT |
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Japanese games developer and publisher Capcom has just issued a few statements about its relationship with PC gaming and how more and more of its internal projects are also being made for that particular platform, not just on consoles like the PlayStation 3 or Xbox 360.
Capcom hasn't exactly had the best of r... |
13 May 2011
02:45 GMT |
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Crysis 2 is a great title, with its top notch gameplay and gorgeous graphics compensating for its lackluster story.Sadly, even if it's quite an impressive game, it received quite a lot of critiques from PC gamers, who felt that Crytek betrayed them in multiple ways.The first was because Crysis 2 would appear on ... |
8 April 2011
10:40 GMT |
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Saints Row 3 developer Volition is still adamant that the PC platform is a great one for large, triple-A games, not just for the small, online-only titles that have been popping up on it.
The studio has taken a new stance on the PC versions of its various projects, including upcoming releases like Saints Row 3 or ... |
21 March 2011
15:21 GMT |
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Processor and graphics card manufacturer AMD has recently stood up against Microsoft's DirectX software, saying that it is preventing PC game developers from exploiting all of a computer's resources, which is at least ten times more powerful than a PlayStation 3 or an Xbox 360 console.
In case you didn&#... |
21 March 2011
04:45 GMT |
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Microsoft has once again promised to PC gamers that its special Games for Windows Live service will continue to improve and is going to be supported through a variety of great games.
Microsoft pledged to help PC gaming many times before, but, almost every time, its efforts were misdirected or didn't really en... |
9 March 2011
03:15 GMT |
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Microsoft's next operating system, Windows 8, will be great for games and relaunch PC gaming as a whole, according to a new report coming from an inside source.
Versions of the Windows Operating System are powering most of the computers out there, but Microsoft hasn't really backed up the platform throug... |
23 December 2010
04:45 GMT |
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Valve, one of the leading independent game developers in the world, has released some very interesting figures concerning its Steam digital distribution platform, alongside the details about a new feature called "Recommended For You", which has been added to the service late last week.Steam, for those still unaware, ... |
23 November 2010
04:19 GMT |
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The NPD Group, the market research company which has offered both hardware and software sales charts for the video game industry in the United States every month, has announced that it will be limiting the amount of data it will make public.The company has said that starting with the data for the month of September, ... |
13 October 2010
03:42 GMT |
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Microsoft is keen to reinvigorate the PC platform once more, in terms of gaming, as it has realized that it hasn't been really supporting the Windows platform as a viable gaming one, and favored the Xbox 360 console in front of the PC.Microsoft, as the developer of the main software for the PC, the Windows opera... |
27 September 2010
02:53 GMT |
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Kojima Productions is finally ready to move to multi-platform releases. Legendary designer Hideo Kojima's outfit has been developing games mainly for Sony's platforms, but has decided that it is high time to bring their product other audiences as well. Speaking to VideoGamer, Shigenobu Matsuyama, the creati... |
25 August 2010
10:51 GMT |
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The PC is still the lead development platform for BioWare and it will continue to be so for a long time. The role playing games that the developer creates are better suited to the mouse-and-keyboard control scheme rather than to console pads, according to the writing director for Star Wars: The Old Republic, Daniel E... |
25 June 2010
06:51 GMT |
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The surprising release of Fable III on the PC may be the signal of better things to come from Microsoft for Windows-based gamers. Apparently, the company wants to promote Windows 7 also as a gaming medium and Fable III is just the first step in this direction, according to an internal Q&A sheet. Microsoft may be happ... |
22 June 2010
15:51 GMT |
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Recent research coming from the NPD Group, which also tracks both consoles and videogames sales for the United States market, shows that the average time spent playing games has increased in 2010 when compared to the same period in 2009. Players in the United States aged over 2 have used 13 of their free hours to exp... |
1 June 2010
02:02 GMT |
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Niko Partners has issued a report projecting that the Chinese online videogaming market will reach an overall value of no less than 9.2 billion dollars in 2014, the main sources of growth being the ever expanding infrastructure that is being built to connect more and more of China and the power of social networking s... |
6 April 2010
13:11 GMT |
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The NPD Group is known for putting out the monthly sales figures for the United States but the company is interested in all aspects of videogaming, not just which gaming console sells the most in 30 days. And with the Online Gaming 2010, the NPD Group is showing that players are moving their experiences online more a... |
8 March 2010
05:13 GMT |
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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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