{"id":10391,"date":"2011-03-01T14:03:00","date_gmt":"2011-03-01T12:03:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T22:00:00","slug":"pc-gaming-on-the-up-says-pc-gaming-alliance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/10391-pc-gaming-on-the-up-says-pc-gaming-alliance","title":{"rendered":"PC gaming on the up says PC Gaming Alliance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to the PC Gaming Alliance, the PC gaming market is performing very well at the moment, and it grew by 19% in 2010 in combined established territories such as UK, US, Japan and Germany over 2010.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The spotlight has definitely shifted back to the PC game market,&#8221; declared PC Alliance president Matt Ployhar, who claims that factors such as digital distribution, free-to-play business models and online games contributed to the overall growth.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Large game publishers are looking at digital revenue on the PC game platform as one of their key areas of growth,&#8221; he added, &#8220;and it is clear that the performance of the PC game market in 2010 is resulting in substantial investment money flowing into the PC game business.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Last month PC gaming leaders Valve declared that Steam is more profitable than Google and Apple, per employee.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>19% growth recorded in 2010<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":161,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10391","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/161"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10391"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10391\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}