Epic Games VP aMark Rein has again debunked rumours of a PC version of Gears of War, following references to the game in recent nVidia graphics drivers.

"You know console games are developed on PCs, right? Even if we never release Gears of War on PC we still need to run the game on PC to develop and test content for it," Rein wrote in a foum post.

"Our first E3 demo, over two years ago, was done on an PC equipped with dual nVidia graphics cards. That was how we simulated the power of Xbox 360 before there was actually a real Xbox 360 to run on."

Speculation about a PC version of the shooter has circulated the 'net more than once, following comments by Microsoft and a PC boxart image found in Games for Windows magazine ads.

Explaining the latest rumour outbreak, Rein said: "We gave nVidia a copy of wargame.exe (along with some sample content from Gears) so they could help us tweak Unreal Engine 3 performance and reliability on nVidia graphics chips. That was necessary to make the development tools perform well and ensure that their drivers would support UE3 going forward."

However, we still can't help but notice that Epic has again avoided straight-out denying the PC version's existence...

via cvg