The Mac gaming front has always looked quite bleak compared to the PC side, however there are some top games that do find life on the Macintosh. Needless to say, two of the most hottest games (one of them carrying the hype for several years now on the PC side) are coming to the Mac platform.

They are:

1. Gears of War
2. Unreal Tournament 3

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Both of these games use the spectacular and highly technologically advanced Unreal Engine 3.0.

Update:
In light of making the Mac version more easier to develop, these games use the TransGaming Cider engine wrapper, so as a result, they will only play on the Intel Macs. Ryan Gordon (programmer), states that neither of these games are utilizing the Cider wrapper. MacRumors.com, as well as the original article linked have updated their stories as well.


For PowerPC users, there is good news on the front. Unreal Engine 3.0, which has now been in development for several years is also in the process of being ported to Mac and Linux platforms, and on the Mac side will be universal, thus providing PPC support. However, the downside is that the final exact date of release is as of today still yet to be confirmed.

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Lack of PPC support in modern games.

That makes me angry!

i dunno about gears of war, its really more of a console game, like, you need a controller

ANY FPS is better with mouse/keyboard.

Wow - UT3? Man, I'm not much of a gamer, but when it comes to Unreal Tournament 2004, that game still has me hooked. I cannot wait for this game to be released. Only thing is, I may need to get a new video card. Not sure how well my ATi Radeon X1800 is going to do (I like my games @ 1600x1200 ).



Well, you said it yourself, it's a modern game. You need modern technology to play it.

Amazing news, GoW and Unreal T ,

PS: Last time i checked GoW was 3rd person shooter , and i concurr with Allout that game is meant to be for a controller ,you can always put the Xbox360 joystick on the PC, i dont know if it works on OSX.

Excellent, even more Apple gaming! Now all Apple need to do is have killer GPUs to go along with their killer processors!

Yep, you can use it under OS X (thus on a Mac) as well:

http://tattiebogle.net/index.php/ProjectRo...oller/OsxDriver

Thanks EFI

Heh heh heh, I was referring to Unreal... but even 3rdPS are nicer (IMO) with a mouse... take the GTA series for example.

Sorry ,after i posted i realize that you were talking about UT , its just Allout was talking about GOW .

nah, its my fault for quoting it

These games are NOT using cider. So PPC versions are still possible.

Thanks for the info mate. Your correct. Apparently MacRumors as well as the original article linked updated their stories. I have updated the story above.

Oh man, Macs are getting the gaming. EA and their titles, now this. We need ID to put all their titles on Mac to. UT2007, man I never saw that coming.

The day Counter Strike: Source runs native on Mac OS X is the day I'll buy my mac.

great news, i hope they bring halo 2 over soon

Sweet!

This means that we need a vga upgrade for our systems, because these games wont run on full speed on any mac at the moment.

Id is support Quake wars on mac.

great news on the new game releases.....

but I only own a Macbook... too bad i wont be able to run any of these amazing games