Rumor: Bioshock headed to the Mac

Is there anyone out there who doesn't have a PC, or a console, or a Windows partition on their Mac, or was just somehow able to avoid the critical, cultural, and widespread success of 2007's amazing Bioshock? If so, you're in luck -- while console gamers are breathlessly waiting for Bioshock 2 updates, Mac gamers are still waiting for the first one, and the wait might finally be over. Macworld is reporting that a little birdie (read: back of a t-shirt) at last week's show told them that Bioshock was finally headed to the Mac, courtesy of Feral Interactive.

Too little, too late? Don't get us wrong: Bioshock, the spiritual successor to System Shock and its sequel, is a terrific game, combining FPS gameplay with RPG elements and one of the best videogame stories of 2007. If you haven't played it and you're willing to pick it up for the Mac, you're in for a treat. But these kind of releases just perpetuate the issues with Mac gaming: games come out years late, no one buys them (because everyone who cares has already played them elsewhere), and then developers complain that games don't sell on the Mac. A Bioshock announcement is all well and good, but next time, devs, would you kindly aim for release a little closer to everyone else?

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Source: http://www.macworld.com/article/138126/2009/01/bioshock.html

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SonOfA

Almost totally pointless and pathetic. This is the reason I installed Vista under Boocamp - just to play games when they are released, not after they are dated. I haven't bought a retail mac game since.

More game studios ought to follow in EA's footsteps and devlop their games with Cider. Also, Steam needs to come out for Mac, if those two things would happen I could say goodvye to Windows at home.

I would much rather buy the mac version but it's not worth it to have to wait so long and it's been played to death by evey one else but you.

January 14 2009 at 3:21 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

colouroflight

If there's any DRM then they can kiss any chance of success with this goodbye.

January 14 2009 at 2:46 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Damo

"...would you kindly aim for release a little closer to everyone else?" Very good. Did nobody else get that clever little reference?

January 14 2009 at 11:35 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Bearxor

I would love to buy this for the Mac, but it better be dirt cheap. I'll support the effort, but not for more than $10. I bought it on Steam a couple of weeks ago for $5.

January 13 2009 at 11:51 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Todd

That's a very late port, unless they hope to time it with a quicker release of the Bioshock sequel that's in the works.

@SlaunchaMan - totally agreed, Fallout 3 is probably my favourite game of all time, and a Mac port would pull me off the xbox couch.

January 13 2009 at 7:03 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Felipe. L

I LOVE the "would you kindly" reference. lol. Yeah I put Windows on my new MBP exclusively to play this game. I've since then played and beat it three times. I hope that BioShock 2: Sea of Dreams will be available for the Mac at the same time as for the other platforms (one can dream!)

January 13 2009 at 5:50 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Saggis

Better late than never. The fact Feral is the company in question is a huge relief, I find their game ports are far more polished than any of the competition hands down.

January 13 2009 at 5:07 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Kyle M.

You can buy Bioshock for $20 for the PC.

I've been playing games on the Mac for more than fifteen years. I gave up. I got tired of these Mac issues a long time ago. BootCamp is the only way to go. I'd rather see Mac software developers write iPhone apps than port PC games.

January 13 2009 at 3:12 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

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Stephen Lang

I think some form of Bioshock is already available on my RAZR before the Mac!

But hey, better late than never I suppose...

January 13 2009 at 2:51 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Mickey

This is just ridiculously late. I bought Spore (probably a little impulsively) soon after it was released and a big factor was that it was actually made for use in OSX. I'm far more likely to play a pirated version via BootCamp than wait around hoping that maybe these cool games will someday be released for Mac.

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