December 5, 2010
Crytec Says Consoles Holding PC Gaming Back
Cryteq CEO held an interview over the holidays and stated that the PC platform is a whole generation ahead of the Xbox 360 and Playstation 3. While PC gamers have known this for years it hasn’t really been officially stated by a prominent company until now. Crytec was one of the last companies that held PC exclusives however with it’s new release of Crysis 2 it will be releasing the game on the PC, PS3 and 360. I’m sure for any PC gamer reading this that they are jumping out of their seats right now but this is actually a disappointing statement. Because of the focus on consoles games, quality games on the PC and exclusive titles for it have been far and in between. “PC is easily a generation ahead right now,” he told Edge Magazine. “With 360 andRead more…
July 7, 2010
Activision Wants Consoles to be Replaced by PCs
We live in a world where we have multiple platforms for gaming. PC, PS3, 360, WII, etc. Each platform has varying amounts of power when it comes to playing games. Games are released across several platforms and the platforms that have the weakest specs or the worst controls tend to get the watered down, crappier versions of the games released. Activision, one of the leading cross platform publishers, wishes to move away from the “walled gardens” set by Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo. The president of Activison, Bobby Kotick, believes that the majority of people paying to use XBL are paying to play Modern Warfare 2 — ‑Activision does not get a share of that profit. “We’ve heard that 60 per cent of [Microsoft’s] subscribers are principally on Live because of Call of Duty,” Kotick told FT. “We don’t really participateRead more…
