The
Our Members Page on the PC Gaming Alliance Website now has two recent
changes worth noting to the membership of this nonprofit corporation "whose
mission is to promote PC gaming worldwide." One is the departure of cofounding
member Activision, and on this departure (and apparently others)
Kotaku
got a response from the PCGA saying: "a few members have decided they cannot
justify the budget (membership and staff) required to maintain an active role in
the PC Gaming Alliance at this time." Also,
Big Download notes the addition of a mysterious new member called Sony DADC.
This mystery is solved by clicking the link which leads to the
SecuROM Website, so the purveyors of the
widely reviled DRM solution are in at the PCGA, but one of the world's largest
third-party publishers is out.