Kotaku: Mac Gaming

Deus Ex: Human Revolution Headed to Mac Later This Year

Owen Good — Sat, 17 Sep 2011 01:30:00 EDT

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For the six of you here who game on a Mac, and I am one, be advised that Deus Ex: Human Revolution will be ported to that platform by the end of the year or early next year. More »

League of Legends Shutting Down Mac Support

Owen Good — Sun, 04 Sep 2011 16:00:00 EDT

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After about a year of beta testing, Riot Games is canceling Mac OS support for League of Legends at midnight on Tuesday. More »

Civ V Puts A Hex On Mac This Holiday

Michael McWhertor — Tue, 19 Oct 2010 20:30:00 EDT

Sid Meier's deeply addictive Civilization series is coming back to the Mac platform later this year, thanks to publisher Aspyr. The company confirmed its plans to bring Civilization V to Apple computers "this holiday season." More »

Garry's Mod Brings Source Powered Insanity To Macs

Michael McWhertor — Thu, 23 Sep 2010 19:40:00 EDT

Garry Newman's crazy physics sandbox for the Source engine, the one that lets you manipulate, animate and torture characters from Half-Life, Counter-Strike and Team Fortress, has joined the list of Mac games on Steam. More »

Classic Grand Theft Auto Trilogy Coming To Mac, Says Rockstar

Owen Good — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 22:30:00 EDT

Answering reader mail, Rockstar Games today said it will be bringing Grand Theft Auto III, Vice City and San Andreas to Mac gamers "later this year." More »

Half-Life 2 Comes To Mac Tomorrow

Michael McWhertor — Tue, 25 May 2010 17:40:00 EDT

Steam for Mac gets a big update this week with the addition of Half-Life 2, coming to Mac OS X on May 26. More »

Steam For Mac Is Live, Includes Free Copy of Portal

Michael McWhertor — Wed, 12 May 2010 15:40:00 EDT

Valve Software has flipped the switch. You can now officially download Steam for Mac OS X. Do so now and Valve will throw in a copy of the original Portal for free. More »

Valve Dates Steam for Mac; It's May 12

Owen Good — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 19:16:00 EDT

Valve sent word five minutes ago that the public release of Steam for the Mac will be on May 12. No other details were included in the statement. More »

StarCraft II Beta Gets Map Editor This Week, Mac Version Next Week

Michael McWhertor — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 16:40:00 EDT

Blizzard is still hip-deep in the StarCraft II multiplayer beta, but fans of the sci-fi real-time strategy game should expect a pair of important updates over the next couple weeks, including the release of the game's Galaxy Editor. More »

A New Marathon Trademark? What's That Pfhor?

Owen Good — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 21:30:00 EDT

One week ago Bungie filed a new trademark application for Marathon, the FPS superstar of Mac gaming's brief apogee during the mid- to late-1990s. There are few details beyond that but the paperwork's enough to stoke fantasies of a reboot. More »

Valve Teases Upcoming Mac Announcement, Not So Subtly

Michael McWhertor — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 15:40:04 EST

Is Valve finally ready to make the switch and support Mac OS X? A recent update to Steam hinted at it, now it's time for the Half-Life, Left 4 Dead and Team Fortress developer to be more blunt about it. More »

Is Valve Bringing Steam To The Mac?

Michael McWhertor — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 18:00:00 EST

Yesterday's announced update to Valve's Steam digital distribution service came with a surprise—hints that the Half-Life developer may be planning to add Mac OS X support to the currently Windows-only software. More »

Mac Version Of Dragon Age Just A Week Away

Mike Fahey — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 13:40:00 EST

BioWare and TransGaming have teamed up to deliver Mac gamers their very own version of Dragon Age: Origins, available for digital download next week in both Standard and Digital Deluxe versions. More »

WAR Comes To The Mac This Month

Mike Fahey — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 12:20:00 EDT

Mythic entertainment opens the world of Warhammer Online to a whole new group of players later this month, when the MAC version of the MMO goes live. More »

Mac Users Will Get to Experience the Game of the Year — for 2007

Owen Good — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 19:00:00 EDT

Porting shop Feral Interactive has announced that they're bringing BioShock to the Mac more than two years after its original release. Mac users' immediate response was "What's a BioShock?" More »

Ten Years Ago: "Halo is the Name of This Game."

Owen Good — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 19:30:00 EDT

In 1999, Bungie was probably the best-known studio developing specifically for Macintosh, having delivered titles like Marathon, Myth, and Pathways Into Darkness. At Macworld 1999, Steve Jobs introduced the studio's next big Mac exclusive: Halo. More »

Rumor: Bioshock OTW for Mac

Owen Good — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 16:00:00 EST

Oh yeah, there was another big tech expo this past week: Macworld. And the magazine is reporting Bioshock will be out for the Mac in the first half of 2009. More »

A Case for Indie Development on Mac and Linux

Owen Good — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 17:00:00 EST

MacOS and Linux's install base is dwarfed by Windows, so in terms of which platform to develop for, that ends the argument right there. Right? Wrong, says Wolfire Games' Jeff Rosen. More »

City Of Heroes Goes Mac

Mike Fahey — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 12:20:00 EDT

TransGaming and NCsoft are teaming up to bring the ultimate battle between superheroes and supervillains to the Apple Macintosh. Using TransGaming's Cider Portability engine, the City of Heroes franchise will be available for public beta testing with the release of Issue 13: Power and Responsibility later this fall, with an official launch expected sometime before the holidays. More »

TransGaming Brings Ubisoft To The Mac

Mike Fahey — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 12:40:00 EDT

TransGaming has just announced that they are now collaborating with Ubisoft to bring their PC games to the Mac via the Cider Portability Engine. The multi-title agreement will see Ubisoft PC titles appearing on TG's digital distribution platform GameTree Online throughout the summer and into fall alongside Windows platform releases. So what games do Intel-based Mac users have in store? More »

Penny Arcade Adventures To Xbox Live Arcade, Computers This Wednesday

Michael McWhertor — Mon, 19 May 2008 19:00:50 EDT

If you somehow missed the news that the Penny Arcade/Hothead Studios joint Penny Arcade Adventures: On the Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness Episode One was hitting this week, here's your handy reminder. The debut episode of the adventures of Gabe and Tycho will set you back 1600 Microsoft Points should you buy from Xbox Live Arcade, with the Windows, Mac and Linux download a mere $19.95 via PA's own Greenhouse. I'm downloading it just to find out how "adult" this "adult humor" really is. If it's anything like the adult movies I watch and the adult situations in which I often find myself, it should be worth the price of admission. More »

Website Makes Gaming Accessible For Everyone

torif — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 17:00:00 EST

For many of us, playing video games and working on computers is second nature. My laptop and I are practically attached at the hip. But what if, due to physical limitations, you were unable to use your computer for gaming and other applications? Assistive Gaming is a website who aims to provide an answer to this question, offering ways to use assistive technology to play games on Mac computers, and make gaming more accessible to people with physical impairments. Launched this past January, the website's publisher, David Niemeijer, says that many people think only specially adapted "accessible" games are available, which are generally targeted at younger kids, and would be of little interest to adults and teenagers. However assistive gaming means that anyone can play just about any game, including Unreal Tournament 2004, or World of Warcraft. More »

Valve Wanted $1 Mil Advance For Half-Life 2 For Mac

Michael McWhertor — Mon, 08 Oct 2007 19:20:46 EDT

Why doesn't Valve care about Mac gaming? Gabe Newell says "there's never any follow through on any of the things [Apple says] they're going to do." Inside Mac Gaming has a slightly different interpretation on that, claiming that Valve's terms for bringing Half-Life 2 to the Mac OS involved a $1 million advance payment from whomever was handling the port, a big buy-in for a game that would sell exclusively to the Mac gamer demographic. More »