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GDC 2010: Fallen Earth comes to the Mac, brings an iPhone app

by Mike Schramm (Mar 12th, 2010)

Fallen Earth is a respectable postapocalyptic MMO -- I've never played it (one MMO is enough for me, and the gigantic World of Warcraft is still claiming my time), but it's grown pretty popular since release in September of last year. And now the game is set to pick up another chunk of audience, as ...

iPhone TCG to charge $9.99 for in-app purchases

by Mike Schramm (Sep 25th, 2009)

Just the other day I was talking about how prices were all over the place for in-app purchases, and now here's a company that's just going all out with the microtransaction model (or macrotransaction, maybe, in this case). Urban Rivals is an online MMO trading card game, and they're going to start ...

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 ...

Watchmen: Justice is Coming is an impressive tech demo

by Victor Agreda, Jr. (Mar 31st, 2009)

There's a whole lot of promise in the Watchmen: Justice is Coming game for iPhone/iPod touch. Unfortunately, the game is beset by some bugs and gameplay fumbles. The more I played, the more I got used to the quirks, but eventually there's a certain monotony to the game that left me rather ...

Watchmen MMO coming out for the iPhone

by Mike Schramm (Mar 2nd, 2009)

I love massively multiplayer online games, I love my iPhone, and I love Watchmen, the genre-defining graphic novel series of the late '80s (of which, I'll brag, I have a whole set of first edition copies) that's very soon to be the first movie blockbuster of 2009. That's why the news, over at our ...

Aurora Feint devs share their social code in OpenFeint

by Mike Schramm (Feb 18th, 2009)

The folks behind the popular Aurora Feint series of iPhone games have decided to share their work creating a "social MMO" system on the iPhone with other developers. They've just announced a system called "OpenFeint," which other devs will be able to license and use in their own games. OpenFeint ...

City of Heroes comes to the Mac

by Mike Schramm (Jan 9th, 2009)

Along with EVE Online and World of Warcraft, Mac users have another popular MMO to play with. It took a while, but NCsoft has finally brought their superhero massively multiplayer online game, City of Heroes, to OS X. When we heard the game was ported over by TransGaming, we flinched a bit, but ...

SnOwned tries multiplayer snowball on the iPhone

by Mike Schramm (Dec 19th, 2008)

I kind of like the idea behind snOwned, a new wintry app on the App Store that claims to be a "multiuser, online snowball fight." I think there is some great multiplayer gaming to be had with the iPhone, and, if enough people are interested, there might be some in snOwned. You download the app from ...

Aurora Feint II: The Arena adds asynchronous multiplayer, in-game messaging

by Mike Schramm (Nov 26th, 2008)

Our good friends at Massively got an opportunity that turned us green with envy -- they got to sit down with the devs of Aurora Feint, one of our favorite iPhone games, and see how its fulfilling the "MMO" promise they've been offering up since it first debuted on the App Store. The new game is ...

John Carmack planning a "graphical tour-de-force" for the iPhone

by Mike Schramm (Jul 30th, 2008)

Ah, game developers (especially EA game developers, of which id software's John Carmack is now one, after their announcement at E3 that they'd work together to publish games). They thrive on hype, and live, it seems sometimes, off of speculation. That's probably why Carmack has told Forbes that not ...

Massively offers bi-weekly roundup of Mac MMOs

by Cory Bohon (Apr 15th, 2008)

Massively, one of Weblogs, Inc.'s newer gaming blogs, recently started a Mac-centric feature devoted to all things MMO. MMOS X is published bi-weekly and tells you all about the latest native Mac MMO's ... none of that virtualized or Bootcamp stuff, only the good native games. So, if you're looking ...

EVE Online on the Mac next Tuesday

by Mike Schramm (Nov 2nd, 2007)

The Weblogs, Inc. network of blogs (of which TUAW is a part) announced its newest member today, Massively (covering news about MMO games, and co-lead by yours truly), and right there on the launch page was great news for Mac MMO fans. CCP, the company that makes the great EVE Online, has announced ...

Pirates Online goes live on Mac

by Mike Schramm (Nov 1st, 2007)

I heard a few times that Disney's new casual MMO Pirates of the Caribbean Online went live yesterday, but MacWorld reminds us that it's out for both Windows and Mac. Metacritic doesn't have too many reviews up as of this writing, but our friends at Joystiq found it to be a fun, easy to get into ...

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 ...

Disney releases Toontown for Mac OS X

by David Chartier (Nov 30th, 2006)

Joystiq is reporting that Disney has released a Mac version of Toontown, an MMO cartoon game where users can create cartoon characters, join quests to save Toontown, race carts and even hurl wedding cakes at each other. The game seems to be fairly successful so far, as over 15 million Windows users ...