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AMD sponsors E3 conference for PC
In a news flash AMD announced that an event sponsored by AMD, PC Gamer, Twitch and more PC gaming will take center stage at E3 2015. As the PC gaming platform will get its own first conference.
There's never been a better time to play games on PC. Gaming-capable hardware is inexpensive, digital distribution has given us unprecedented access to a huge range of games, and publishers have finally recognized that reports of its demise as a viable platform were ludicrously exaggerated. And soon the PC will have its own celebratory event during E3 week, with the first-ever PC Gaming Show. Sponsored by PC Gamer, AMD, Twitch, Bohemia Interactive, Tripwire and Digital Storm. They tease: "PC gaming is in a golden age, with more powerful and affordable hardware than ever before, thousands of games available through Steam, Origin and other platforms, and millions of viewers regularly watching esports online. Now, for the first time, the PC platform will have its own event during E3, where the community will be able to celebrate this era with some of the biggest names in PC gaming and see the innovations that lie ahead".
AMD's Corporate Vice President and General Manager of Computing and Graphics, Matt Skynner, said: "The PC Gaming Show embodies the spirit of innovation, openness and community that's part of our DNA-delivered by gamers, for gamers. The time is right for a PC-focused event in the week of E3 and we're honored to be part of bringing the industry together".
There will be some big names at the PC Gaming Show, with the following already confirmed: AMD, Blizzard Entertainment, Bohemia Interactive, Cliff "CliffyB" Bleszinski, Cloud Imperium Games, Dean Hall, Devolver, Humble Bumble, Heart Machine, Paradox Interactive, Square Enix and Tripwire Interactive.
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#5061923 Posted on: 05/02/2015 01:37 AM
I wonder if the 390X will make an appearance.
I wonder if the 390X will make an appearance.
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#5061969 Posted on: 05/02/2015 04:46 AM
Of course it will be for PR. Why else would they sponsor an event like this otherwise?
I am looking forward to seeing what the event is like. PC gaming desperately needs rejuvenation. Will we see big name titles announced for the PC only? Unlikely. What we might see are some good orignal fresh titles on show.
"PC Gaming", based solely on the number of quality titles currently available for the PC, not to mention the huge library of back-titles available (I've got games more than 20 years old that run beautifully under Win10 x64/Dosbox), has never been better or stronger...! People often forget that even during a bad sales year, PCs sell at the rate of 45,000,000 or so in just six weeks--which is more than PS4/xBone combined have sold since they started shipping, to put some perspective on it. PC Gaming is stronger than it has ever been, in fact. We could add in the huge volumes of Kickstarters for PC exclusives, etc.
There are a few developers like EA who love to put out mediocre games and charge $60-$70 a pop to console buyers, developers who don't like to ship for the PC because their software for the PC stinks compared to the developers who do things right on the PC. Whereas PC buyers have mountains of game software to sort through at their leisure, console buyers otoh are always hungry for games--and are generally much less discerning in terms of the metrics most PC'ers use in comparing games--which makes them fat targets for unscrupulous developers.
What I can't figure in that list is Bleszinski. He's far more of a PR spin man than he's ever been a "developer", and he has written many a long post about the "evils of the PC" in years past (both Sweeney and Carmack are long in the tooth and have to restrict their programming to the simplistic world of consoles because their games just don't hold up under the withering competition of the current PC games' marketplace.) But the PC is on such an ascendant track in recent years (PS4 & xBone are *both* low-end x86 AMD PCs, literally) that not even someone like Bleszinski can afford to cast sour grapes on the PC market anymore. I don't know of anything he has to say that I'd find of interest, but when even a console shill like Bleszinski is clamoring to be heard in the PC-games' space today--you know the PC market is healthy, indeed!
Of course it will be for PR. Why else would they sponsor an event like this otherwise?
I am looking forward to seeing what the event is like. PC gaming desperately needs rejuvenation. Will we see big name titles announced for the PC only? Unlikely. What we might see are some good orignal fresh titles on show.
"PC Gaming", based solely on the number of quality titles currently available for the PC, not to mention the huge library of back-titles available (I've got games more than 20 years old that run beautifully under Win10 x64/Dosbox), has never been better or stronger...! People often forget that even during a bad sales year, PCs sell at the rate of 45,000,000 or so in just six weeks--which is more than PS4/xBone combined have sold since they started shipping, to put some perspective on it. PC Gaming is stronger than it has ever been, in fact. We could add in the huge volumes of Kickstarters for PC exclusives, etc.
There are a few developers like EA who love to put out mediocre games and charge $60-$70 a pop to console buyers, developers who don't like to ship for the PC because their software for the PC stinks compared to the developers who do things right on the PC. Whereas PC buyers have mountains of game software to sort through at their leisure, console buyers otoh are always hungry for games--and are generally much less discerning in terms of the metrics most PC'ers use in comparing games--which makes them fat targets for unscrupulous developers.
What I can't figure in that list is Bleszinski. He's far more of a PR spin man than he's ever been a "developer", and he has written many a long post about the "evils of the PC" in years past (both Sweeney and Carmack are long in the tooth and have to restrict their programming to the simplistic world of consoles because their games just don't hold up under the withering competition of the current PC games' marketplace.) But the PC is on such an ascendant track in recent years (PS4 & xBone are *both* low-end x86 AMD PCs, literally) that not even someone like Bleszinski can afford to cast sour grapes on the PC market anymore. I don't know of anything he has to say that I'd find of interest, but when even a console shill like Bleszinski is clamoring to be heard in the PC-games' space today--you know the PC market is healthy, indeed!
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#5061980 Posted on: 05/02/2015 05:46 AM
That would sure be nice
I wonder if the 390X will make an appearance.
That would sure be nice
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#5061982 Posted on: 05/02/2015 06:20 AM
My thoughts in seeing this was that it might be released during the show. *crosses fingers*
I wonder if the 390X will make an appearance.
My thoughts in seeing this was that it might be released during the show. *crosses fingers*
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This is pretty awesome.