In the wake of a shrinking market and continual ground being lost to consoles, Intel, Nvidia, AMD, ATI, Microsoft, Dell, Acer, Alienware Epic, Activision and other big names in PC gaming announced at this year’s GDC (February 20, 2008) the formation of the PC Gaming Alliance.

This new non-profit group, as it told Develop, is aiming to give PC game developers a “unified voice” similar to how Nintendo, Sony and Microsoft act with their respective consoles. The group will be focusing on what it considers “industry leadership, platform leadership and…

Nvidia was founded in 1993 by Jen-Hsun Huang, Christopher Malchowsky and Curtis Priem, with the aim of breathing life into the visually-restricted games of that day with their graphic cards. It was not smooth sailing for the company from the word go, as it had to contend with the failure of several of its products more »