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Hands-on: League of Legends for the Mac

by Mike Schramm (Jun 4th, 2010)

Defense of the Ancients is one of the most interesting stories in all of gaming -- it was originally a player-created mod for the Warcraft III real-time strategy game, and it completely revamped the RTS game into a RPG/hack-and-slash mashup, where the player controlled a champion character that ...

Dragon Age: Origins coming to Mac as a digital download December 21st

by Mike Schramm (Dec 15th, 2009)

Gamepro's got the news that Electronic Arts is fast-tracking Dragon Age: Origins for release on the Mac -- they're now saying that it'll be out as a download as soon as next week, on December 21st. I've been playing the game on PC (it came out for both PC and consoles in November), and it is ...

Warhammer Online coming to the Mac

by Mike Schramm (Jul 31st, 2009)

More good news for MMO players on the Mac: Warhammer Online has joined the ranks of EVE and of course World of Warcraft by announcing the release of a Mac-compatible client. Most of you already interested were probably playing with Boot Camp, but that hasn't stopped Mythic from working on a Mac ...

Transgaming to use SecuROM for Cider games

by Mike Schramm (Aug 21st, 2008)

As if Mac gaming needed more problems getting off the ground. Transgaming has proudly announced that in the future, their games will include Sony's SecuROM digital rights management software. They don't mention which games will be getting the extremely restrictive DRM (that some folks have compared ...

Transgaming makes deal with Ubisoft

by Mike Schramm (Jul 3rd, 2008)

First EA, and now gaming giant Ubisoft has inked a deal with Transgaming to wrap their titles in Cider and port them over to the Mac. Which seems like great news -- Ubisoft has a huge number of quality titles, and bringing those to the Mac must be great for gamers who appreciate a better operating ...

Will Wright: Mac users will love Spore

by Mike Schramm (Feb 15th, 2008)

Well, who won't, right? If you haven't read a single gaming blog this week (you serious worker bee, you), then you may not have heard the big news: Will Wright's rumored-to-be-a-masterpiece Spore has gotten a release date. It's hitting stores (for both PC and Mac simultaneously-- now that's what I ...

Madden and the iMac: a story of woe

by Mike Schramm (Oct 20th, 2007)

Mac | Life wasn't content to just read about Madden 08 on the Mac-- they tried to actually run it. And for all of us Mac gamers out there, I'm sorry to say the experience didn't go well. Now, we already knew that neither Madden nor Tiger Woods would run on any Mac with the GMA950 graphics ...

Oh EA, where art thou?

by Mat Lu (Jul 31st, 2007)

Remember back at WWDC when EA announced they were coming back to the Mac in a big way? Well several of our readers did, and have written in to point out that it's the end of July and EA on the Mac is nowhere to be seen. Back in June Macworld reported that EA would be bringing four popular franchises ...

Five things Apple can do to bring gamers back

by Mike Schramm (Jun 20th, 2007)

Apple is releasing games for the iPod. EA and id show up at the WWDC keynote. And the rumors say Nintendo may team with Apple for the iPhone. All signs point to an Apple that seriously wants to reenter the gaming market, an arena that has been dominated by PCs and consoles for quite some time. But ...

EA, id back gaming on the Mac

by Mike Schramm (Jun 12th, 2007)

Well how about that. Not a few days after I announce that I'm going to be posting news about gaming on the Mac, we get the biggest announcement about exactly that since Bungie released Marathon: EA and id both showed up at the WWDC Keynote yesterday to promote 3D gaming on Apple's computers. id went ...