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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 platform.
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.
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?”
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.
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.
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.
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?
“Ubisoft is extremely excited about the partnership with TransGaming to bring our titles to the Mac”, said Jay Cohen, senior vice president of publishing at Ubisoft. “This is the perfect opportunity to reach the growing Mac community so they can enjoy games such as CSI: Hard Evidence and our Petz franchise with Catz and Dogz”.
Oh. That’s…nice? Finally Mac gamers will be able to experience the titles PC gamers have been raving about for ages! I assume we’ll see something a bit more meaty (yes, I know Petz have meat) as the partnership continues.
