PC Gaming is absolutely not dead. I have a PC, PS3 and a Wii. 90% of the games that I have gotten this calendar year have been for the PC. Fantastic games like Far Cry 2, Dead Space, Warhammer: DOWII, Red Alert 3 and Fallout 3. Even though many of these new releases are going multiplatform, the best versions of these are still found on the PC. While this may be up for debate, nobody can argue that a PC will pump out way better graphics than any console could ever hope to, and that is NEVER going to change. In my opinion, PC gaming is still the purest form of video gaming. It is where the first person shooter was invented, and in my opinion, it is where it should stay. No matter what anybody thinks, a keyboard and mouse player will out frag a control pad player in any FPS. There is no way that those two nubs on a control pad can aim and shoot quicker, or with more accuracy than the point and click motion of a high dpi mouse. Not to mention that consoles have barely scratched the surface of the RTS genre, which a powerhouse genre on the PC. Just think about it, Starcraft, Warcraft, Command & Conquer and the numerous copy cats that were spawned from these franchises. As we saw, Tom Clancy's End War stunk it up on the consoles because they don't know how to recreate the RTS experience on a console yet. The only way it could possibly be done is by completely stripping an RTS down, essentially making it half of a game. That is how they came up with Halo Wars. Unfortunately, this "RTS for Dummies" will sell because it has Halo attached to the name. Another aspect of PC gaming is the indie side it. This includes homemade games, mods and extra levels that PC players have been downloading and playing for free ever since the original Doom. Consoles are just starting to pick up on this (Playstation Network, Wii Virtual Console, etc.), but they think that they can charge money for what PC gamers are used to getting for free. As far as I am concerned, console gaming is still one or two huge steps behind PC gaming.

There are some games that don't require you to have 2 cd's. Company of Heroes, Stalker, and I think Supreme Commander to name a few. Another great one is the Warhammer: Dawn of War games. You just have toget the original game and one of the expansions. They should be pretty cheap in stores or on Half.com. As long as the original and one of the expansions is installed on both computers. You can use the original cdin one and the expansion cd in the other. This will give you access to all of the races.