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GDC 2010 and the Mac

EDIT 2: Discovered today that TellTale will not be bringing Secret of Monkey Island: SE to the Mac…Aspyr is!

EDIT: Stupid me, I forgot all about the Fallen Earth MMOG announcement! Yeah, that’s right, the Fallen Earth Mac beta is available now. Check it out!

I want you all to understand how awesomely cool the news has been for Mac gamers from the GDC this week so far. We’ll be getting the complete rundown on tonight’s podcast from Peter Cohen of The Loop, who is manning the front line there in San Francisco. But for a brief rundown, here it is:

  • OnLive has announced that they are going live come June 17, 2010. This is the on-demand gaming service that will be available for PC and Mac (and soon iPhone).
  • Razer has announced that they will increase support for Mac drivers on all upcoming peripherals, including the Razer StarCraft II peripheral suite.
  • Gas Powered Games, awed by Valve deciding to bring Mac support to Steam, has announced that they would be behind Mac support on Steam from now on: “We, as a developer, will include a Mac platform option in all of our proposals moving forward,” said Chris Taylor of Gas Powered Games. “We’re in 100% support of it. Absolutely.”
  • TellTale’s Monkey Island: Special Edition and Secret of Monkey Island 2: Special Edition will be hitting the Mac as well. Not that this is a surprise…
  • Khronos Group announced that OpenGL 4.0 has been released. More graphic goodness for us all!
  • Bigpoint is making some significant news for the Mac. It announced that it had chosen the Unity platform for the upcoming browser-based Battlestar Galactica MMO. This means that Mac users should be able to play the game. Also, it announced leveraging the Unity platform to create a synchronous gameplay experience cross-platform, code-named Uniter, for the purpose of playing games on PCs and smartphones. Though the press release doesn’t specify, there is no reason not to include Mac and iPhone in there, and including iPhone but not Mac would be, well, kind of stupid. IMHO.

I’ll be grilling Peter tonight about it all. So stay tuned!

March 11, 2010 · Posted in GDC  

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4 Responses to “GDC 2010 and the Mac”

  1. BJ Wanlund on March 12th, 2010 6:20 am

    Actually, it’s LUCASARTS who is doing The Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition and LeChuck’s Revenge: Special Edition for the Mac, they’re going to sell them through TellTale’s store, which might have led to your confusion.

    BJ

  2. Aspyr bringing Secret of Monkey Island: SE to Mac : iGame Radio on March 12th, 2010 4:41 pm

    [...] can pop out to those who aren’t in attendance, leading to incorrect conclusions. Yesterday, I posted that Monkey Island: Special Edition would be coming to the Mac via Telltale Games. Well, the site I had linked to didn’t mention TellTale…I had just assumed this because [...]

  3. omaha on March 12th, 2010 4:44 pm

    I just found out today that TellTale is not going to be selling them at all…or at least not Secret of Monkey Island: SE. Aspyr Media is! But thanks for pointing out the confusion in my original post. I’ve updated that post to reflect that.

  4. Secret of Monkey Island: SE launched today from GameAgent | iGame Radio on April 20th, 2010 6:31 am

    [...] Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition for the Mac was announced back in March, and we’ve been eagerly awaiting it since. Well, wait no longer, because the game is now available for download. [...]