With Apple making no attempt to promote gaming on Macs, installing Boot Camp and rebooting into XP is pretty much as good as gaming gets on an Apple. But perhaps no longer: TransGaming has announced their new Cider software, which will supposedly run native Windows games on Intel based Macs through OS X.

It isn't just emulation: publishers will need to support Cider and will sell copies of PC games that are Cider enabled. However, where the ease of use comes in is that they will supposedly not have to port the games to OS X... they can just slap their Windows game on a Cider installer and ship it out.

If TransGaming is successful, Mac gamers should start seeing Cider-enhanced games as early as October. The aim is simultaneous release of both Mac and PC games. About half the staff here at Kotaku are Mac users: we're all crossing our fingers on this one. Florian Eckhardt

'Cider' makes Windows games run on Intel Macs [Yahoo News]

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