The ''Open Gaming Alliance'' is a

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organization of hardware manufacturers, game developers, game publishers and others, with the goal of promoting and advancing the PC as a gaming platform. The PC Gaming Alliance was announced during the

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2008. In 2014, the PC Gaming Alliance changed its name to the Open Gaming Alliance and now focuses on all mainstream non-console gaming platforms, including Windows,

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, desktops, laptops, and tablets.

Goals and activities

The OGA is among other things working to develop

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for PC games, combat

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, developing new

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s beyond

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sales, and establish minimum hardware requirements for computer games, along with guidelines for developers to make games work for those requirements. According to former president Randy Stude, the PC Gaming Alliance is to "help make certain that the PC game industry had a public voice and a pulpit for accurately communicating the size, growth and overall popularity of the single largest gaming platform worldwide." They also perform market research for their members and the public.

Members

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* Cloud Imperium Games * Corsair Components Inc *

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* DinoPC *

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* Nexosis *

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. *

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Former members

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* Bigfoot Networks *

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* Howie's Game Shack *

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* Pyxel Arts Digital Entertainment S.L. *

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* Southern Methodist University Guildhall *

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References

External links

The official Open Gaming Alliance website
Video game organizations {{international-org-stub

Goals and activities

Members

Former members

See also

References

External links