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EA and NVIDIA in Alliance

Posted by michael on from the unholy-pair dept.

Deepak Jois writes "Arstechnica is reporting that EA and NVIDIA have entered into a pact to promote each other. Among other things it also means EA will support games on all PC platforms featuring NVIDIA hardware. Also check this link to the press release."

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  1. ALL platforms? by SixArmedJesus · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I wonder if they're just talking about hardware platforms, or software as well. Does this mean some good games getting released for Linux?

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  2. NVidia got itself a good deal by markpapadakis · · Score: 5, Insightful

    EA is, no doubt, the leader in the computer games industry. NVidia is into a head 2 head fight with ATI ( ATI is probably going to come out as the winner ), and such a deal will add points in its favor in this 'fight'. Imagine a series of games to comes with a 'NVidia' recommented stamp on the cover.

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  3. This reminds me... by Quass · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Read this this-morning on CNet avantgo...
    Anyone remember those 3dfx emblazened boxes about 5 years ago? First they get they're own graphics language (reminds me of Glide), and now they start working with companies to program for the chips they make?? For some reason I think Nvidia is being just a BIT too influenced from 3dfx.. it's like they're repeating all the mistakes!

    "Nvidia: The way it's meant to be played" ... pfft.. yeah, the cards are good, but honestly!

  4. creepy by IAR80 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I allways found that kind of alliances creepy. This kind of thing never promotes value. The end of all this will be that all EA games will work verry bad with ATI boards and non EA games will be less competitive on Nvidia. Finally the end user will end up screwed.

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