Aspyr ships Prey for Mac

 

Aspyr Media today announced the Mac version of PreyÅ has shipped to retail outlets around the US, following the public release of the Prey demo last Friday. Prey is described as a "groundbreaking first-person shooter that turns the genre upside-down with new gameplay features and next generation graphics. Breaking the traditional first-person shoot...

 

Source: Aspyr ships Prey for Mac
Originally published on Mon, 15 Jan 2007 20:50:00 GMT

World Of Warcraft Expansion: Burning Crusade

 Relased today!

Platform: Mac OS X

Source: World Of Warcraft Expansion: Burning Crusade
Originally published on Tue, 16 Jan 2007 00:00:00 GMT

Arctic Quest for Mac released

 

Exclusive Games and Stargaze Interactive have released Arctic Quest for Mac, a puzzle game designed to test agility, strategic abilities, reflexes, and quick thinking. "With a wave of his icy fingers, the Snow King unleashed a bitter frost on the tropical islands across Earth. Palm trees iced over, fish were frozen solid in the seas and birds could...

 

Source: Arctic Quest for Mac released
Originally published on Tue, 26 Dec 2006 15:25:00 GMT

Briefly: MacNN reviews; games on demand

 

In brief: MacNN has reviewed the Saitek Eclipse II Backlit Keyboard ($70, shown at right), a keyboard with a silver casing and a weighted base with rubber feet to prevent unwanted movement.... MacNN has also reviewed the Kenpo Jacket for iPod ($100 on sale, regularly $190), a unique iPod accessory with a technological fabic control system sewn int...

 

Source: Briefly: MacNN reviews; games on demand
Originally published on Thu, 28 Dec 2006 18:25:00 GMT

Review - Burning Monkey Solitaire 4

Review - Burning Monkey Solitaire 4
The Mac Observer Mon, 11 Dec 2006 6:21 AM PST
I may not be the most avid gamer around, but I know what I like, and that's Burning Monkey Solitaire. Sure, there are tons of card games to choose from for the Mac, but only Freeverse can pull of the serious solitaire game/monkey joke combo in that special burning monkey way

Blizzard Entertainment released a 2.0.1 upgrade patch to their popular World of Warcraft game on Tuesday.

Blizzard Entertainment released a 2.0.1 upgrade patch to their popular World of Warcraft game on Tuesday.The update for the Mac version introduced a number of bug fixes and performance improvements, including:• Improved video hardware detection and default settings, especially with Intel video. • Vertex Animation Shaders have been disabled for systems with Intel video. • Improved iTunes key-binding feature for smoothness and track name display.• Fixed a bug where Tutorial Tips would not be marked as viewed correctly on PowerPC Macs. • Fixed a rare crash bug in the audio code. • Improved support for Weather Shaders. • Added support for changing the mouse sensitivity in WoW. Previously, the Mac version ignored the value from the slider in the Interface Options dialog.Most notable, however, is support for Multithreaded OpenGL for Intel Macs running OS X 10.4.8 or higher. According to the patch notes, depending on hardware, scene and settings, this can raise World of Warcraft framerates "up to a factor of 2X".We first reported on Multithreaded OpenGL in August, after it was discussed privately at the Worldwide Developers Conference. Multithreaded OpenGL allows 3d games to take full advantage of multi-core and multi-processor Macs which have become so common. Doubling of framerates had been described with the early demos, and it appears that Multithreaded OpenGL was quietly released as part of the Mac OS X 10.4.8 update released in September. Users should be aware that games need to be rewritten to specifically support Multithreaded OpenGL to see the benefits. Once rewritten, any Intel Mac with a Core Duo, Core 2 Duo or Xeon processor would see benefits. It does not appear that multi-processor PowerPC Macs are supported at this time, but this support is expected with Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)

News: Solavant solitaire game goes Universal

News: Solavant solitaire game goes Universal
MacCentral Online Wed, 22 Nov 2006 5:08 AM PST

Solavant, the "hard solitaire" game for Mac OS X, is now available as a Universal binary and sports other new features as well.