Macintosh

TransGaming Inc., a leading developer of software portability products for the electronic entertainment industry, announced today a new and improved game player that expands the GameTap experience for broadband-enabled PC and Intel-based Mac users.
With the new faster and lighter GameTap player, games launch more quickly and it is even easier to search for and discover [...]

GameTap, the first-of-its-kind broadband entertainment network from Turner Broadcasting System, Inc. (TBS, Inc.), announced that the season finale for its popular multiplayer online game "Myst Online: Uru Live" will launch today.
"Myst Online has been a great addition to our roster of GameTap Original titles," said Ricardo Sanchez, GameTap’s vice president of content and creative director. [...]

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GameTap is launching "Deception," the newest episode in Myst Online: Uru Live this Saturday, September 8th. Players can continue the journey that has already featured all-new puzzles, all-new Ages, and brand new storylines.
Despite the ongoing battles of the Bahro and the threat of the coming war, the D’ni Restoration Council (DRC) continues its efforts to [...]

Blizzard Entertainment, Inc. today announced plans for the second expansion to World of Warcraft, its award-winning massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG). Unveiled at the company’s BlizzCon gaming festival before an audience of more than 8,000 gamers, World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King will open the forbidding wasteland of Northrend to exploration by [...]

Blizzard Entertainment, Inc. today offered players the first-ever public opportunity to play an early version of its highly-anticipated real-time strategy game, StarCraft II. Attendees of the company’s BlizzCon gaming festival enjoyed single-player skirmishes as well as multiplayer battles on six different StarCraft II maps.
“Since announcing StarCraft II at the Blizzard Worldwide Invitational in May, we’ve [...]

Last Day of Work (LDW), an independent game studio specializing in sophisticated casual games for the mainstream player, today announced that the seeds have been sown for Plant Tycoon in PC and Mac varieties. An all-new version of the award-winning handheld game, this virtual gardening simulation game will let players breed and crossbreed plants while [...]

Blizzard Entertainment has unveiled StarCraft II, the sequel to its award-winning real-time strategy game StarCraft, at the 2007 Blizzard Worldwide Invitational event in Seoul, South Korea. The announcement took place inside the Olympic Gymnastics Arena, in front of thousands of attendees, who received a presentation that included a StarCraft II cinematic trailer and a gameplay [...]

Sandlot Games, a leading developer and publisher of casual and family-friendly games, announced the release of its Macintosh version of Tradewinds Legends, one of the top selling online games of 2006. Now both PC and Mac players can join the more than 7 million people who have downloaded and enjoyed Tradewinds Legends. As part of [...]

Goozex, a leading video game trading community, has announced the addition of Apple Mac games to its trading service. Goozex is the only video game trading platform to offer Mac owners the ability to trade Mac games.
 

Sports Interactive, the sports management development specialists, has today released Out of the Park Baseball 2007 and a free demo for PC and Mac. Both the demo and full game can be obtained from the Out of the Park Baseball Web site.
Out of the Park Baseball 2007 gives players the chance to do almost anything [...]

Sillysoft Games has released its new strategy game Ancient Empires Lux. It’s available now to download for Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux. The game lets players take control of the greatest early civilizations of mankind, including Egypt, Greece, and Rome.
Ancient Empires Lux is a strategy game, but also fits into the “casual games” segment [...]

Disney Online today announced the availability of Disney’s Toontown Online for Macintosh computers, plus the addition of new “gags” to keep players on their toon-toes. The first massively multiplayer online game designed for kids and their families, Toontown invites players to live life as a cartoon character, along with thousands of other players in a [...]

Agreement with MacGameStore Makes POSTAL Games Available on All Mac Systems.
“From the day we started this company almost a decade ago,” Running With Scissors CEO Vince Desi declared, “we have supported the Mac. Even when nobody else seemed to be supporting the system, we were there and we appreciate every opportunity to reach more Mac [...]

As a company that has supported Macintosh gaming since its inception nearly a decade ago, it was only a matter of time before Running With Scissors found the right partner to make POSTAL 2: Share the Pain and its add-on scenario, Apocalypse Weekend available to Mac users worldwide via download.
That partner is UK based Vindico [...]