State of gaming 'tragic'

Peter Molyneux says the PC gaming market is in a tragic state and fingers spotlight hogging and design stagnation as the primary culprits, according to PC World.

"I think it's a huge tragedy," admits Molyneux. "I mean, you might as well say PC gaming is World of Warcraft and The Sims...the weird thing is everyone's got a PC, they're just not buying software for it."

"They're doing the same game over and over again with a different wrapper," he says. "It's like a mini-universe in itself which is emulating what's happening in our industry."

Nokia showcased its new Snap Mobile games platform at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco, along with live demos of N-Gage First Access, says VNUNet.

Snap Mobile is a mobile Java gaming platform that covers middleware, hosting, maintenance and online community management.

Nokia announced it will bring connected mobile Java games to the Snap Mobile platform in partnership with casual game developers PopCap Games.

A group of industry giants have come together to announce the PC Gaming Alliance (PCGA), says PC Mag.

This group will bring together competing game developers and publishers, hardware manufacturers, and original equipment manufacturer firms to help solve the problems faced by the PC gaming industry.

Companies featured as founding members of the group include: Activision, Microsoft, Epic, Nvidia, AMD, Intel, Dell, Acer, Alienware and Gateway.