Thinking of getting into independent game development? You should go with the PC over console.<\/p>\n
That’s just the advice of Epic Games’ Cliff Bleszinski, anyway, but he’s the guy who invented chainsaws on guns and he probably knows what he’s talking about.<\/p>\n
“Xbox Live and PSN, skip both of them because you\u2019re at Sony or Microsoft\u2019s will as to what\u2019s on the dashboard,” he said during a GDC panel talk about indie game development. “iOS, maybe, but you have to have Apple\u2019s approval, there\u2019s too much piracy on Android, no one has a Windows phone. Kickstarter\u2019s wonderful, go Tim Schafer.”<\/p>\n
“I would go with the PC.”<\/p>\n
Although Epic is basically sleeping with the Xbox 360 these days, the company has a history of developing iconic PC games including the Unreal and Unreal Tournament series, both of which set visual and technical benchmarks in the early noughties. Also, Unreal Tournament 2004 on PC was the best in the series, fact<\/em>.<\/p>\n PC GAMING IS NOT DEAD, etc.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":159,"featured_media":33900,"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":[2,3],"tags":[31,1448,1415,553],"class_list":["post-33876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-pc","tag-active","tag-cliff-bleszinski","tag-epic-games","tag-indie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33876","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\/159"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33876"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33876\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33898,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33876\/revisions\/33898"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Source: Kotaku<\/a><\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"