According to a report on [URL=http://news.bigdownload.com/2011/02/18/update-on-pc-gaming-alliance-and-departures-of-microsoft-and-nvi/]BigDownload[/URL], Microsoft and NVIDIA, two key players in the PC industry, have left the PC Gaming Alliance. BD confirmed the news with PC Gaming Alliance president Matt Ployhar. Microsoft and NVIDIA were founding member of the organization set up to champion creating and playing games on PC. Ployhar declined comment on why these companies have left the group.

Ployhar went on to tell BD that his organization will change its focus from research and reports on the industry to assisting game developers, publishers and hardware companies make better PC games.

"Another key thing we'll be doing is creating a more technical based advisory board that you'll all be hearing more about very soon," Plyhar said via his [URL=http://software.intel.com/en-us/blogs/2011/02/16/pc-gaming-alliance-my-first-3-months/]Intel Blog[/URL]. [URL=http://www.gamepolitics.com/2011/02/22/microsoft-and-nvidia-exit-pc-gaming-alliance][B][COLOR=#8e0505]Read More[/COLOR][/B][/URL]

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