4 New Official Games For Apple!! And More! ->

Everyone, EA and Steve Jobs said that Command And Conquer 3 Tiberium Wars, Battlefield 2142, Need for Speed Carbon, and Harry Potter & The Order of the Phoenix are coming to MAC!

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"EA, id take bite out of Apple"
Megapublisher announces six Macintosh games; Doom-maker reveals new IP is coming to PC, PS3, 360, and Mac, promises new "Mac-related announcement."
By Tor Thorsen, GameSpot
Posted Jun 12, 2007 1:58 am GMT

Today at Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC), CEO Steve Jobs touted the fact that his company's Macintosh computer line is getting a double-shot of support on the games front.



First, in the wake of its casual game push on iTunes, Electronic Arts revealed it will release several top-tier titles onto the Mac. After Apple CEO Steve Jobs talked up the number one third-party publisher, EA chief creative officer Bing Gordon took the WWDC stage.

"Starting in July, we're going to bring four of our biggest titles to run on [Macintosh] OS 10," Gordon told an enthusiastic crowd. The quartet in question includes favorites Command & Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars, Battlefield 2142, Need for Speed Carbon, and the as-yet unreleased Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix.

Gordon also revealed that following Phoenix, EA will start releasing majors games "simultaneously on the Mac" when they ship for other platforms. The first two titles to be released on this platform will be Madden NFL 08 and Tiger Woods PGA Tour 08, both due in August.


"Who run Bartertown?"

After Gordon, id software cofounder and chief technical officer John Carmack stepped up to begin a technology demo. "We were able to put this together fairly quickly, which speaks highly of the Mac platform," said Carmack, sporting a black-on-black three-button suit. He then emceed the first public showing of the all-new engine that will power id's forthcoming game, which was first revealed in 2004.

Titled "id Tech 5," the demo began with a swooping pan through a desert canyon filled with a shantytown straight out of Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome. Carmack talked up the fact the engine supported "a world that is entirely covered in unique textures." He said the sequence, which followed a MotorStorm-esque dune-buggy racetrack, had a whopping 20GB of texture information. He said that said information will allow designers to tweak any aspect of the textures "without affecting the stability of the game."

In his concluding statements, Carmack also revealed that id's as-yet unnamed new game will be formally unveiled to the public at the E3 Media & Business Summit next month. He also confirmed the game would be "running on the PC, PS3, Xbox [360], and Mac." Between E3's kick off and the 2007 QuakeCon convention, id will also "have another Mac-related announcement," Carmack promised."


Source- http://www.gamespot.com/mac/action/battlefield2142/news.html?sid=6172346&mode=recent

 

Who here are going to get these games? (Sorry for double post, 1st post is kinda long)

I know I am, I'm going to test it out on my new Macbook Pro(has santa rosa and 256mb 8600m GT)

 

Lots of info and thanks! i can't wait to get those games nice find, and again thanks

 

you're welcome, I'm glad that there are other MAC gamers here besides me. ( I also play windows games too)

 

Hopefully some Mac native games will mean they can easily be ported to Linux. Might mean I can play BF2 on punkbuster servers finally!

 

Well, at least we know that the Battlefield series 2142 will be native to the Mac operating system. -> Yay.

And i'm sure they will allow you to play BF 2 on punkbuster servers.

Leopard should be able to take in those games. Wouldn't Mac make a patch for those games to make it compatible? Besides those games are on a MAC DVD. so they can be easily played on a Leopard no problem.

 

thats absolutely cool.. there should be more games for mac...

 

LOL, yay!!!! 4 MORE! (I don't own a mac)

 

This is great news for the mac, but I doubt it will become a gaming platform if it continues selling computers like this.
Avid and hardcore gamers usually are also into modifying their systems to get great performance. That would be really expensive to do on a mac pro and impossible in a mac mini or an imac (wich doesn't really sport great video cards).
I'm also not sure if the mac pro supports SLI or crossfire.

 

the desktop Mac Pro is really good, you can easily replace those inside it. You can even get 16 gigs of RAM on it too. lol

 

Um noob mac question here but why would you buy mac games to play on macs when you can just get the same games but for windows and a whole lot cheaper and play them on macs using bootcamp?

 

Well, if you already bought a MAC with an intel processor, and you wanted to try Windows XP/Vista on the MAC using bootcamp, you could go ahead and buy windows only games.

However, those who do not want to purchase a new OS, can just buy the game itself.

It's kinda self-explanatory on that part.

 

oh ok lol.....I'm pretty sure that if some one needs a xp os that they'll have a friend who will lend them the disk.=)

 

Interestingly, even as Macs are pushing for some more games. I don't see it very possible for the current Macbooks to be able to push the power to play these games.

Maybe, in the near future, there will be an update to the Macbook lineup with a dedicated GPU?

 

Thank you for the paraphrasing

 

You're welcome