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Who would have thought that the neverending dispute between PC gaming and console gaming would create such deep rift between two of the gaming industry's most iconic figures?

During an interview with Tomsgames.com, at this year's GDC, Mark Rein said that his colleague and friend from Epic Games is an idiot and that PC gaming isn't dead. That was Rein's answer to Cliff Blezinsky's, aka CliffyB, statement that the PC as a gaming platform is dying. Asked about his opinion on Cliff's gloomy view of the PC platform (the same Cliff that contributed to Gears of War for PC and that same Cliff that brought us the announcement of Gears of War 2), Mark Rein said laughing:

"Oh he's an idiot. No, he's a great guy. Cliff makes console games though, right? He's on a console team that makes what is primarily a console game."

Furthermore, Epic's boss confirmed once more what we already knew: that our beloved keyboard-and-mouse-endowed platform is alive and kicking, with more than 239 million PC gamers connected online at the end of 2007, with revenues in excess of $2.76 billion last year and with a projected growth of 14% percent in 2008. There's also another advantage worth mentioning when it comes to PC vs. consoles quarrel:

"The path we're on right now isn't going to make it the fastest selling game but PC games have a potentially much longer tail than console games. There's a good chance to sell that game for a much longer period of time than the more hit-oriented console games."

The Rein-CliffyB "friendly-dispute" began at the launch of the PC Gaming Alliance (PCGA), a non-profit organization set up at GDC 2008, who wants to resuscitate the PC and transform it into a major...erm, player on the gaming market. The list of PCGA founding members includes Epic Games, Microsoft, NVIDIA, Intel, AMD-ATI, Dell/Alienware, Acer/Gateway and Razer.

Now we'll just get back to our usual Locust fraggin' in the PC version of Gears of War, while we anxiously await for Gears of War 2... on the PC, you got that Cliffy?