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PC Gaming Alliance Adds New Members

Posted 08/13/09 at 08:59:40 AM  by Paul Lilly

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The PC Gaming Alliance (PCGA), a non-profit consortium created to promote the awesomeness of gaming on a PC, stands eight members stronger today. These new members include BFG Technologies, Bigfoot Networks, Flextronics, GameStop, GameTap, Gas Powered Games, Howie's Game Shack, and InstantAction.

"We welcome these new members to the PCGA, a rapidly growing organization where companies of all types can come together to expand and improve the PC gaming ecosystem," said Randy Stude, PCGA president and Intel director, Gaming Program Office.

The new additions will help fill a void created when Activision-Blizzard and "a few others" left the consortium last April because "they cannot justify the budget (membership and staff) required to maintain an active role in the PC Gaming Alliance at this time," the PCGA told Kotaku.

Other members include AMD, Intel, Capcom, Dell, Epic Games, Microsoft, Sony DADC, SMU, Digital River, EMG, Gas Powered Games, Razer, and WildTangent.

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TAGS: games, Software, Videogames, pcga, PC Gaming Alliance
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avatarPCGA

Submitted by MeTo on Thu, 08/13/2009 - 8:24am

What exzactly has PCGA accomplished. All i see is good money going out the door.

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avatarYou can't rent software, unless...

Submitted by VaMage on Thu, 08/13/2009 - 8:21am

I agree GameStop is no friend to PC gaming. If you look hard enough in one of their stores you can find the little wire rack, one side of which is used to hold a few PC titles. So why they would bother with this is beyond me, PR maybe?

As to GameStop, or anyone else, renting software, it is illegal to do so unless directly authorized by the copyright holder, which simply doesn't happen. 

THE COMPUTER SOFTWARE RENTAL AMENDMENTS ACT OF 1990:

http://www.copyright.gov/reports/software_ren.html

 Of course this far sighted move gave console games a huge advantage for the last 20 years or so, because you could rent games at everything from a Mom & Pop video store to Blockbuster. I assume the on-line vendors are paying a license fee to the copyright holders to gain the authorization required. 

VaMage

American by Birth, But Southern by the Grace of God.

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avatarPC games rent

Submitted by MeTo on Thu, 08/13/2009 - 8:29am

Consider paying $5.00 or $10.00 for a old PC game rent except you get to keep it. Your only going to use it for solong so to me its the same thing.

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avatarGameStop?

Submitted by bjtalbot on Thu, 08/13/2009 - 7:30am

I can't think of a bigger unfriendly company to PC gaming than GameStop.

 

They don't sell used PC games. The PC games they do sell are overpriced. They pulled Dawn of War 2 (or was it Empire: Total War?) off the shelves before launch because they don't like the Steamworks activation.

 

Is Steam (VALVE) part of this alliance? If not, they should be.

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avatarAgreed. Steam/Valve should

Submitted by I Jedi on Thu, 08/13/2009 - 8:25am

Agreed. Steam/Valve should be apart of the alliance. They're huge in PC gaming, especially Steam. Why they're not in it is beyond me. I'm sure they have their reasoning.

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