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Mac Game of the Week: Endless Space is a beautiful space-faring 4X strategy game

by Mike Schramm (Mar 14th, 2013)

There's no question that iOS games tend to be a little more oriented towards the quicker and the easier, so when I head back to the Mac platform looking for a game to spotlight, I like to go a little more cerebral. And Endless Space, as you can probably tell from the screenshot above, is ...

Mac Game of the Week: Runner2 is a gorgeous, trippy journey

by Mike Schramm (Feb 28th, 2013)

The Bit.Trip series of games are always fun examples of mixing music and gameplay, and Bit.Trip Runner was probably my favorite of these. It is a relatively simple game, where a little black box of a guy named Commander Video runs along, jumping up over obstacles and onto platforms in time with ...

Mac Game of the Week: Assassin's Creed 2, now on sale for $4.99

by Mike Schramm (Feb 21st, 2013)

As you may have noticed in our daily deals post today, Amazon is having a huge sale on Mac games, with some of the highest-profile titles of the last few years offered up with huge discounts. There are a few really great bargains in there (including Rage for US$4.99 and Civ V for $7.50), but ...

Mac Game of the Week: Galaxy on Fire 2 HD brings iOS' best space adventure to the Mac

by Mike Schramm (Dec 6th, 2012)

While some developers have recently gone towards a philosophy of making a bunch of smaller releases and dropping them on the App Store quickly, German developer Fishlabs has done the opposite. It's focused on one huge game, Galaxy on Fire 2, and spent the last year expanding and perfecting it. ...

Mac Game of the Week: Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic

by Mike Schramm (Nov 29th, 2012)

Odds are that you may have played Knights of the Old Republic once before, but even if so, you may want to pick it up and go through it again anyway. These days, it's a classic, but back when we first heard Bioware (the company behind legendary RPGs like Baldur's Gate) was going to try and make ...

Mac Game of the Week: Battle for Wesnoth is an open source classic

by Mike Schramm (Nov 15th, 2012)

Battle for Wesnoth is one of my favorite Mac games of all time, and best of all, it's completely and totally free. It's an open source game back when creating open source games was the thing to do, but unlike most other open source games, it has endured and flourished, currently sitting at ...

Mac Game of the Week: The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings

by Mike Schramm (Nov 8th, 2012)

Most of the games I've covered for this feature so far have come down on the casual side of things, mostly iOS titles that have made their way over to the Mac App Store. But not so with this pick -- The Witcher 2 is a great game, but it is definitely not for the faint of heart (or GPU power). ...

Mac Game of the Week: Funky Smugglers offers funky fun

by Mike Schramm (Nov 1st, 2012)

Funky Smugglers continues the trend of bringing iOS games back to the Mac. The game is from Polish developers 11 bit Studios (who also made the Anomaly: Warzone Earth series). It's a somewhat silly, but still addictive, arcade game, where you have to use an airport scanner to try and grab ...

Mac Game of the Week: Cthulhu Saves the World is the best version of a great RPG

by Mike Schramm (Oct 25th, 2012)

I already sang the praises of Zeboyd Games' Cthulhu Saves the World when it appeared on iOS: I think the world could use about a million more of these kinds of classic Japanese RPGs (and Zeboyd's latest title, Penny Arcade 3, just arrived on the App Store.) But I also admitted that playing ...

Mac Game of the Week: Puzkend plays it casual

by Mike Schramm (Oct 19th, 2012)

Azkend is a casual puzzle game that's been available for PC, Mac and iOS. Its success inspired a sequel called Azkend 2. The gameplay is similar to the match-three genre, and it's not unlike Bejeweled. You must match three (or more) items of a certain kind, and your eventual goal is to line the ...

TUAW's Mac Game of the Week: Trine 2 is a beautiful puzzle adventure game for $4 right now

by Mike Schramm (Sep 27th, 2012)

Trine is a terrific puzzle/adventure game that's akin to Blizzard's old The Lost Vikings title, if you remember that one. It features three different characters (a thief, a knight and a wizard) all controlled by one player, each with different abilities that are used to navigate various ...