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August 6, 2007

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Mac gaming update

Posted Aug. 6, ’07, 6:32 AM PT by Derik DeLong
Category | Games

WoW Lich King With Intel processors and Boot Camp, I feel like many Mac gamers are basically giving up on OS X and going to the dark side. I’ll shamelessly admit I have for essentially every game except World of Warcraft (I’m hovering just below addict status at the moment).

Speaking of World of Warcraft, the next expansion pack, Wrath of the Lich King was announced. I see it as good and bad for me personally. Good because it adds a ton more content now that I’m at level 57, so I won’t be hitting that upper limit any time soon. Bad because it means it’ll be that much longer before I have a maxed out toon. The first “Hero class” will be the Death Knight. Other new features include a new profession, Inscription, new areas, and new dungeons. Shout out to the Blizzard boys for continuing the simultaneous multi-platform releases.

Another company that’s made a habit of supporting multiple platforms is id Software, creators of the Doom and Quake game series. They’ve announced Rage.

id Software on Friday unveiled their latest first person shooter. Rage will pit players against an oppressive government in a post-apocalyptic world. The new game will make use of id’s latest Tech 5 game engine, and will feature expansive outdoor environments as well as plenty of enemies to blast.

Even better, the game will be available on OS X, Windows, XBox 360, and PS3. If the pattern holds though, the Windows version will be significantly less expensive.

Finally, Aspyr, who has been porting many games to the Mac, updated their Game Agent software (available at Macgamefiles). This little utility helps you check whether your Mac is capable of their many game offerings. The latest update adds the Intel angle into the equation.


1 Comments

Kelmon said:

I started using Boot Camp for games but the games kept crashing so I gave up on the whole thing and uninstalled Windows. I got rid of almost all my PC games years ago and had only bought the Dawn of War series because I was nuts about the Games Workshop series of battle games as a kid. However, given that Windows would periodically just completely crash (probably a graphics driver issue, I suspect) it's just not worth it and I didn't really have that much spare disk space on a C2D MacBook Pro anyway. Given this I've kept my limited gaming to OS X and strongly encourage everyone else to do so if you wish to continue to see native games.

August 6, 2007 11:40 PM

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