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Massively rounds up MMO iPhone apps

by Mike Schramm (May 22nd, 2010)

Our friends over at massively.com, a site all about massively multiplayer online games, have put together a quick roundup of iPhone apps related to MMO games. Inspired by this week's update to the World of Warcraft app, they've got apps for MMOs like Aion, Dungeons and Dragons Online, and EVE, ...

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 ...

Warrior Epic MMO releases iPhone tie-in

by Mike Schramm (Dec 15th, 2009)

This is an interesting trend: Warrior Epic, an MMO game by True Games, has announced that they've released an iPhone app [iTunes link] version for free, featuring "a small portion of the strategy, role-playing and battles found in the online MMORPG," kind of like a taster for the actual PC game. The ...

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 ...

Blizzard releasing Mobile Authenticator for iPhone, iPod touch

by Mike Schramm (Mar 19th, 2009)

Blizzard is one of the biggest software developers in the world -- they're behind some of the most popular games of all time, including the Diablo series, and of course their legendary MMO World of Warcraft (full disclosure: I'm a senior editor over on TUAW's sister site about that game, WoW ...

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 ...

City of Heroes coming to Mac under Transgaming's Cider

by Mike Schramm (Oct 30th, 2008)

Yet another MMO on the Mac -- EVE Online and World of Warcraft are already there, of course, and now NCSoft has announced that City of Heroes is coming to the Mac. Unfortunately, they're using Transgaming's Cider software to port the game, and as we've said before, the software isn't only ...

Wowhead Warcraft database releases OS X client

by Mike Schramm (Jun 3rd, 2008)

Our friends at WoW Insider (disclaimer: I'm a lead blogger over there) have good news for Mac World of Warcraft players who want to support one of their favorite sites. Wowhead, which is one of the premium online databases of all the items, quests, and NPCs there are to find in the game, has ...

CrossOver Games released, designed to play Windows games on Mac and Linux

by Mike Schramm (Mar 26th, 2008)

Codeweavers has released CrossOver Games, a games-specific version of CrossOver, their Windows emulation software. Jeremy White has the story behind the release over on their blog -- apparently the application team wasn't working quite as quickly as they wanted, but the games team was chugging ...

10.5.2 makes your WoW go faster

by Mike Schramm (Feb 11th, 2008)

Our good friends over at WoW Insider (disclaimer: I'm a lead over there) have unlocked one of the first secrets about 10.5.2 (which dropped today in Software Update): it'll make World of Warcraft play faster. After hearing that the patch made reader Jason's Mac play faster, WoW Insider's Adam ...