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Gears of War and UT3 coming to the Mac

by Mat Lu (RSS feed) on Jul 16th, 2007

Back at WWDC one of the most surprising things was the emphasis on gaming. Well apparently Uncle Steve and Co. were serious as Epic has confirmed that the Xbox 360 mega-hit Gears of War as well as the highly anticipated Unreal Tournament 3 are both coming to the Mac. On a video at Gametrailers.com, Epic VP Mark Rein reveals the news. As the resident 360 maven let me assure you that getting Gears on the Mac should make a lot of Mac gamers happy. There's no word on timing, but with announcements like this there's reason to hope that the future of gaming on Intel Macs looks bright.

[via MacMinute]

Tags: Games, gaming, Gears of War, GearsOfWar, Unreal Tournament, UnrealTournament, UT3

Filed under: Gaming, Video, Odds and ends

"One Thumb to Rule them All"

by Mat Lu (RSS feed) on May 30th, 2007



This video is just flat out amazing. Mike Phillips is a Mac gamer and writer, who just happens to have been born with spinal muscular atrophy. He's apparently only able to move his thumb, and yet that doesn't stop him from playing Unreal Tournament and World of Warcraft. This is possible thanks to a proximity switch connected the Swifty USB switch interface from Origin Instrument and the SwitchXS software from AssistiveWare. The latter looks basically like a kind of on-screen keyboard, that Mike scrolls through to select arrows or letters, etc. Seeing Mike frag people left and right is enough to make me keep away from him online.

AssistiveWare has a variety of products to help disabled Mac users, as well as other videos demonstrating some of them.

[via MacDevCenter]

Tags: accessibility, AssistiveWare, Swifty, SwitchXS, Unreal Tournament, UnrealTournament, World of Warcraft, WorldOfWarcraft

Filed under: Gaming, Software, Universal Binary

Unreal Tournament 2004 goes universal

by Dave Caolo (RSS feed) on Feb 6th, 2006

Ryan Gordon, who converted Unreal Tournament 2004, has written the universal update for UT 04 that you can download here (it's a 199MB bitrottent file). According to MacSoft general manager Al Schilling, UT 04 is twice as fast on an Intel Mac that it was on its older G5 siblings.

Now go get it. w00t!

Update: Post edited for accuracy. I don't play Unreal in any of its incarnations, so forgive my ignorance.

Tags: macsoft, universal binary, UniversalBinary, unreal tournament, UnrealTournament

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