Gas Powered Games founder and Supreme Commander developer Chris Taylor said that the PC gaming industry needs to embrace new business models which sidestep piracy concerns to survive.

"PC gaming isn't dead. PC gaming—the old model— probably is," Taylor told GamesIndustry at GDC. "Secure PC gaming is the future—it's going to thrive and we've all got to get on that,"

Taylor suggested that server-based and online-authenticated gaming proves to be the most successful business model in an industry fraught with piracy. The developer envisioned an industry in which data would be accessed from a central server rather than directly from the user's PC.

"It's all got to be secure, we can't afford to make this stuff and give it away for free," Taylor said. "It inconveniences a little but now they know why. And then we can get the economics back in line and maybe we can actually start ... Read more

The 21st episode of the Played gaming podcast is now available, offering an interview with Chris Taylor of Gas Powered Games. Taylor talks about his design philosophies, the Games for Windows initiative, Supreme Commander, Total Annihilation and more.

Gamasutra has an article format Chris Taylor interview up, talking to him about his career that has gone from 4D Sports Boxing to Supreme Commander.

Game designer Chris Taylor has been best known for his 1997 realtime strategy title Total Annihilation, but he's likely to become better known for his upcoming Supreme Commander, which looks to one-up Total Annihilation in as many ways as possible. I recently had the chance to chat with Chris about a number of features in Supreme Commander, as well as his thoughts on the strategy genre, how he ended up making games, and why he decided to explore RPGs with Dungeon Siege. Prepare yourself for a hefty read, then check out this five page interview.

Chris Taylor: The way we're working is that we have a pool of units, so that if you're playing with fewer people, you have more units [per person]. We've toyed with two to four thousand units in a pool. So let's say you and I play head to head and it was four thousand units, we'd get two thousand each. If we played eight player, we'd get five hundred each. What that final unit count is, it's not yet been decided, but in all fairness whatever it is when we launch the game in January it will be different in June. The powers of the machines will go up, it's fully moddable, people can change the number of units to whatever they want with a mod. So if you and I get together and we know a little something about how to mod the game, we can change it to ten thousand units each. There's really nothing about how the game is architected that limits that number. It's an arbitrary limit that will be set at release, and it will probably be within two and four thousand units total.

PC Gamer magazine has launched a podcast, which you can find at http://www.pcgamerpodcast.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" class="external. In the first MP3 they have up, they talk to Chris Taylor of Gas Powered Games. Topics include Dungeon Siege 2 and Supreme Commander.

There's a Chris Taylor Q&A on FileFront, asking the Gas Powered Games founder about game development and Dungeon Siege. One thing mentioned by Taylor is that "our new, unannounced RTS has no association with the Total Annihilation brand".

Chris Taylor, the guy responsible for Dungeon Siege (along with some other folks I imagine) is doing the interview thing over at GameSpy. It seems that Chris is leaning towards the RTS genre for his next title.

GameSpy has another future of PC gaming article, this time asking designer Chris Taylor what we can expect from future games. Thanks VE.

The Electric Playground has an interview with Chris Taylor, designer of Total Annihilation and Dungeon Siege. EP ask Chris about the publicity surrounding Dungeon Siege, what his thoughts are on using his name to sell a game, how the game can be expanded, if anyone is interested in licensing the engine, and several other things.

Future Looks has a Q&A with Chris Taylor, designer behind Total Annihilation and Dungeon Siege. They ask him about the life and games of Chris Taylor.

If you didn't attend the Chris Taylor over at the MSN Zone, you can read a transcript here. Taylor's latest, the RPG Dungeon Siege, should now be in stores.

Don't think we mentioned before that tonight at 7PM CST, Chris Taylor will be chatting on MSN Gaming Zone. Of course he'll discuss his recently finished Dungeon Siege.

Here's an interview with Chris Taylor formerly of Cavedog, responsible for Total Annihilation, and now working on a Diablo style game.