Last year, we posted a series of articles that examined the
state of PC gaming and its related culture.  Since that time,
even fewer PC exclusives have found their way to market, with PC
gamers widely blaming the rapidly aging hardware in consoles.  I
pose a question: will new consoles actually help PC gaming at
all?  One of the aforementioned articles examined how, despite
reports to the contrary, PC gaming culture is booming (even if
retail titles are shoddily put together).  This article is still
relevant over a year later, with digital downloads and
independently developed games leading the way.  Despite this,
the number of hastily thrown together PC ports of retail
games has increased, and companies seem less interested than
ever in using the PC as their lead platform (DICE aside,
naturally.)  Many PC gamers cite the hardware gap between a
modern gaming PC and a current-gen console; both the 360 and the
PS3 are horrendously outdated in hardware terms, and with one or
the other console generally being cho