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Caturday: Me-WoW!

by Steven Sande (May 25th, 2013)

We don't have a name for this week's Caturday model, but owner Baz Francis of Adelaide, South Australia says that "he's a two month old ginger kitten who loves watching my partner play World of Warcraft on my 15" MacBook Pro. When he's not intently staring at the screen with his head tilted or ...

Game Center terms of service updated, real names shared on invitation

by Mike Schramm (Nov 30th, 2010)

Apple has quietly tweaked the Game Center terms of service to add in the rule that whenever you first invite a friend to join your friends list in the gaming social network app, your real first and last names (as entered in your iTunes account) are shown to them. You still use a nickname as a full ...

World of Warcraft streaming to an iPad

by Dave Caolo (May 3rd, 2010)

For years I've wanted a decent World of Warcraft (WoW) iPhone app from Blizzard. There's an armory app that lets you browse your gear and so forth, but that's not enough. I'd like to track auctions, access in-game email, visit the bank and so on. All of that went out the window when I saw this. ...

Nintendo: Apple isn't a viable gaming platform

by Sang Tang (Apr 8th, 2010)

When asked about the impact that the iPhone and iPod touch have had on Nintendo's stranglehold on portable gaming, and whether or not there is any concern about the iPad, Nintendo of America president Reggie Fils-Aime said that Apple "is not having an impact on Nintendo when you look at our ...

World of Warcraft armory app for iPhone now in the store

by Michael Rose (Jul 16th, 2009)

Our resident WoW expert is on vacation, but he sent a quick note to let us know about the new World of Warcraft Mobile Armory application for the iPhone; the free app gives you access to character details, equipment lists, in-game calendars and more. Getting to this data previously required using ...

Found Footage: Mac Gaming 101

by Cory Bohon (Jun 30th, 2008)

Have you been wondering "where are all the Mac games?" Well, ChannelFlip (our newest favorite Mac-related podcast) has been asking the same question. In their latest episode, Mac Gaming 101, they take many points on the topic and explain why Mac users wait longer for ports of games. You may ...

World of Warcraft Mac client adds builtin movie capture

by Mike Schramm (Jul 13th, 2007)

Some of you might already know that I do some other blogging work on another Weblogs, Inc. blog called WoW Insider, all about World of Warcraft, the MMORPG videogame. Most gaming companies tend to shy away from the Mac, but Blizzard has always been the exception. And with World of Warcraft, there ...

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 ...

"One Thumb to Rule them All"

by Mat Lu (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 ...

Mac gaming on the cheap: Our favorite low-cost Mac games

by Dave Caolo (Mar 21st, 2007)

With the release of Myst Online for the Mac* (and our own nagging, monthly World of Warcraft bills), we TUAW bloggers got together to discuss our favorite low-cost Mac games. Sure, those MMORPGs are fun, but $14.99/month (Warcraft) and $6.95/month (Myst) isn't. So, in the name of gaming cheapskates ...

Control iTunes from within World of Warcraft

by Dave Caolo (Aug 28th, 2006)

Well here's something I missed last week. This past Tuesday was "patch day" in the world of Warcraft. The latest patch, v. 1.12, brought several changes to the game, including the ability to control iTunes. From the Key Bindings preference window you can set up keys to control play, pause, next, ...

Blizzard: We won't stop Mac development

by Dave Caolo (Apr 14th, 2006)

Blizzard Entertainment, creators of highly addictive cross-platform games like World of Warcraft (among others) have announced their intentions to continue work on Mac-native games. In a statement earlier in the week, the company said, “We have a recognized track record of native Mac OS ...

Hello, Mac Gaming Machine

by C.K. Sample, III (Apr 6th, 2006)

After my initial tinkering with Windows XP on my 17" iMac Core Duo, I reinstalled XP on my Mac, using Boot Camp to eliminate the original partition and build a new one, this time 20GBs in size, so I'd have plenty of room for games. I then installed World of Warcraft, since I already had ...

WoW Universal Binary FAST on iMac Core Duo

by C.K. Sample, III (Feb 8th, 2006)

In case you didn't see my post yesterday over at WoW Insider, I just wanted to point out over here that, yes, indeed: yesterday's Universal Binary patch for World of Warcraft means the game runs nice and fast on my iMac Core Duo. On a 1.83Ghz Core Duo with 2GBs of RAM and 128MB of VRAM, I'm seeing ...

Is World of Warcraft now Intel Mac Compatible?

by Fabienne Serriere (Feb 7th, 2006)

Our own C.K. Sample III posted this morning on WOW Insider hinting at the fact that World of Warcraft as of today may be Intel Mac compatible and no longer require Rosetta. When he logged in this morning, WOW launched an updater to version 1.9.3.5059. Now the comment at the bottom of his login ...