PC Gaming Alliance

The PC Gaming Alliance is a non-profit organization of hardware manufacturers, game developers, game publishers and others, with the goal of promoting and advancing the PC as a gaming platform.^[1]

The PC Gaming Alliance was announced during the Game Developers' Conference 2008.^[2]

Goals and activities

PCGA is among other things working to develop marketing for PC games, combat piracy, developing new business models beyond retail sales, and establishing minimum hardware requirements for PC games, along with guidelines for developers to make games work for those requirements. According to president Randy Stude, the PC Gaming Alliance is to "help make certain that the PC game industry had a public voice and a pulpit for accurately communicating the size, growth and overall popularity of the single largest gaming platform worldwide." They will also perform market research for their members and the public.^[3]

Members

• Acer Inc./Gateway, Inc.
• AMD
• Antec
• BFG Technologies
• Bigfoot Networks
• Capcom
• Dell/Alienware (formerly)^[4]
• Entertainment Merchants Association
• Epic Games
• Flextronics
• GameStop
• GameTap
• Gas Powered Games
• Howie's Game Shack
• InstantAction
• Intel Corp.
• Logitech
• Microsoft (formerly)^[4]
• Nvidia (formerly)^[4]
• Pyxel Arts Digital Entertainment S.L.
• Razer USA Ltd.
• Sony DADC (formerly)^[4]
• Southern Methodist University Guildhall
• WildTangent

See also

• Games for Windows
• GamePC Consortium -- a similar organization formed in the mid-1990s
• Multimedia PC, an early effort by the SPA to define levels of PC hardware capabilities

References

1. ^ Worldwide Technology Leaders Launch Industry Consortium To Advance PC Gaming Platform, PC Gaming Experiences
2. ^ GDC '08: PC Gaming Alliance founded
3. ^ Big Download Interview: PC Gaming Alliance President Randy Stude
4. ^ ^{a b c d} Loaded.vg. "La organización anti piratería PC Gaming Alliance pierde dos miembros importantes" (in spanish). Twitter. http://twitter.com/loadedvg/status/49817556869070849. "La organización anti piratería PC Gaming Alliance pierde dos miembros importantes: Sony DADC y Dell. Antes se habían ido Nvidia y Microsoft" 

External links

• The official PC Gaming Alliance website