Kotaku: Mac Os X

Wow, Psychonauts Just Got A Big Update, Achievements and a Mac Version

Michael McWhertor — Thu, 29 Sep 2011 15:40:00 EDT

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Like, totally out of nowhere, Double Fine just hit us with an update to the PC version of "excellent game" Psychonauts, adding Steam Play cloud saves, achievements and support for Mac OS X. Additionally, there's a "slightly modified Meat Circus." More »

Unreal Dev Kit Adds Mac Support... So How About Some More Mac Games, Developers?

Michael McWhertor — Mon, 19 Sep 2011 20:00:00 EDT

Epic Games' Unreal Development Kit, the developer side of the engine that powers Gears of War, Mass Effect, Mortal Kombat, and dozens of other titles, has a new beta release. Within is support for UDK games on Mac OS X, meaning, hopefully, more native games on Apple-made computers. More »

Duke Nukem Forever Bringing Its 'Special Pain Cake' to the Mac This Summer

Michael McWhertor — Mon, 27 Jun 2011 16:40:00 EDT

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Gamers who prefer their operating systems designed by Apple will also have a chance to take a bite of Duke Nukem Forever's "pain cake" this summer, when Aspyr brings 3D Realms, Gearbox Software and 2K Games' raunchy first-person shooter to Mac OS X this summer. More »

Left 4 Dead Comes To Mac, Goes Cheap

Michael McWhertor — Wed, 27 Oct 2010 22:00:00 EDT

Mac owners can start "grabbin' peels" today with the arrival of the original Left 4 Dead, which Valve has released via Steam. To celebrate the latest Windows-to-Mac port, Left 4 Dead is now 50% off. But wait, there's more! 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 »

Valve's Plan To Get More Mac Games On Steam Just Sane Enough To Work

Michael McWhertor — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 18:40:00 EDT

The creator of Half-Life, Team Fortress and Portal has a plan to increase the number of Mac games that are available through its digital distribution service, Steam. Valve plans on giving away* "some" of its Mac-specific game code to developers. 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 »

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 »

Original Left 4 Dead Also Coming To Mac

Michael McWhertor — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 18:40:00 EST

While it wasn't listed among the other Valve games that were getting Mac OS X support earlier today, the original Left 4 Dead is also making its way to Apple computers alongside its sequel. 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 »

Braid Comes To The Mac

Michael McWhertor — Wed, 20 May 2009 16:40:00 EDT

The list of excuses for not having played Number None's Braid gets shorter today with the release of the Mac OS X version of the time-shifting puzzle platformer. 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 »

When EVE Online Textures Go Wrong

Michael McWhertor — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 22:00:00 EST

Hey, making massively multiplayer online games is difficult. Sometimes things slip through the cracks. But that doesn't mean we can't poke fun at EVE Online when it accidentally snatches the totally wrong texture from the hard-drive. More »

Spore Coming To Macs In 2008

Michael McWhertor — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 12:30:00 EST

Mac gaming will become less of a punchline and more of a reality this year, as EA plans to ship the Will Wright-helmed Spore for both Windows and Mac OS X in 2008. That's dependent, of course, on Spore shipping for any platform this year, something that we don't exactly have the highest confidence in. The EA published Spore will come to the Mac platform courtesy of TransGaming Technologies, whose graphics wrapper is reported to make the transition from PC to Mac wicked easy. More »

EA Makes Good On Mac Gaming

Michael McWhertor — Fri, 17 Aug 2007 20:40:17 EDT

Mac gaming may be the punchline of many PC gamers jokes, but it's kept alive by a handful of Mac OSX publisher holdouts. Only the biggest games make their way to the Apple OS, like World of Warcraft, The Sims, Doom III, Halo and Civilization. But, EA's pledge to bring more of its games to the platform have become reality today with the release of surefire hits Madden NFL 08, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, Command & Conquer 3 Tiberium Wars and Need For Speed Carbon. All four games will be available at retail within the next two weeks. More »