John Carmack on PC Gaming….

With everyone and their grand-mother passing judgment on PC games and gaming, how can the legendary programmer and the man behind DOOM/Wolf3D be left behind? In an interview with Tom’s Hardware, Mr.Carmack took a good amount of shots at PC Gaming, though he was smart enough to present them in a polite way while making some good points across the board. According to Carmack:

Well, it’s hard to second guess exactly what the reasons are. You can say piracy. You can say user migration. But the ground truth is just that the sales numbers on the PC are not what they used to be and are not what they are on the consoles.

That gets a big “No shit”. Comparing 3 platforms to a single one (One that is often orphaned and left to dry) is hardly smart. But anyway, the good news is id Software will continue to release games on PCs and support the platform, though with their uber-cynical rantings, one has to assume the clock is ticking before id goes full consoles and tells the PC platform to fuck-off like so many other devs have.

KOTOR 3 MMO In-development

Everyone wants a piece of the MMO pie. Afterall, nowadays, it’s the most profitable genre on PCs. If everyone else is doing it, why must EA be left behind? BioWare is now developing a KOTOR (Knights of the Old Republic) MMO. yay.

We’ve got two of the most compelling MMOs in the industry in development,” said Riccitiello. The first title, based on the Warhammer property, will launch soon. “And the one that people are dying for us to talk to them about — in partnership with Lucas, coming out of BioWare, which is, I think, quite possibly the most anticipated game, full stop, for the industry at the point when we get closer to telling you about it.

Does Riccitiello mean the oft rumored Knights of the Old Republic Online?  “Yes,” he said.

John Smedley: “It’s Ridiculous to say PC Gaming is in Decline”

With pretty much everyone throwing their opinions about PC gaming, why must Sony Online Entertainment’s John Smedley be left behind? Speaking with GameDaily, John Smedley shoots off at the recent “PC gaming is dying” discussions, as well as disagreeing with Tim Sweeney’s “PC is good for anything, not just games” comment. Here’s a snip:

“I keep reading all this doom and gloom. It’s the same guys that have been telling us for years that mainframes are doomed. If you just look at the actual facts on the ground, World of Warcraft – and I have to give props to our competition here – it sat on top of the PC charts for three years now. At some point, and everybody keeps talking about this, but they’re just not realizing that a lot of people’s dollars are going into these online games now and a lot of them you can buy truly digitally, which isn’t getting tracked. It’s as simple as that.”

Full interview after the jump. Read more