The Steam Summer Sale has begun, and despite the growing presence of the Epic Games Store and streaming services, it still serves as one of the best ways to score big money on new games. During the sale, which runs from June 25 through July 9, you’ll be able to get games at drastically reduced…
Category: Mac Gaming
Heads up, Mac gamers: big-time PC game port studio to drop support for 32-bit
Aspyr will say 'bye' to many oldies but goodies With Apple macOS Catalina's discontinuation of all support for 32-bit coded apps, one game publisher is pulling a lot of titles from its Mac game store, reports Apple Insider. The publisher in question is Aspyr – a studio that redistributes, or 'ports', popular games on PC…
Apple is the World’s Fourth Biggest Gaming Company
Apple became the fourth biggest gaming company in the world in 2018, a new report picked up by Cult of Mac said. In total, it earned around $9.453 billion from games during 2018. This is all before the launch of Apple Arcade, which is set to arrive soon. It is ranked higher than gaming giants like…
Aspyr ends 32-bit Mac game sales in shift to 64-bit support only
Game publisher Aspyr is ceasing sale of its 32-bit Mac game catalog on Tuesday, with Monday being the last day the company is offering the titles for purchase, citing Apple's shift of macOS to 64-bit and end of support for 32-bit as the reason for the change. Apple has warned for some time that it…
E3 2019: The best game and service announcements for Mac and iOS
We’ve now heard most of the big announcements coming out of this year’s Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) in Los Angeles, and—as usual—the lion’s share of the attention went to games for consoles and Windows PCs. But there’s a decent amount of love here for the iOS and Mac crowds, too, particularly from Bethesda Softworks and…
Google Stadia vs. Apple Arcade streaming game services: Everything we know
Google Stadia comes to your browser later this year. We got a few more spilled beans about Google Stadia on Thursday, the streaming game service that will run on the Chrome browser. We now know how much it will cost, how it will work and around the time it'll come out (this fall). We know…
How Apple’s Macs lost an early lead in video gaming
Apple's investment of hundreds of millions of dollars into Apple Arcade is not only one of the biggest bets it has ever made to draw attention to iOS, but is certainly also its largest effort yet to promote video gaming in particular. Take a look back at the history of gaming on the Mac to…
Apple reportedly spending $500 million to fund development of 100+ games for its Apple Arcade subscription service
Who knew, Apple has deep pockets? The company is reportedly spending billions of dollars a year on Apple TV+ original content, will pay about $480 million for the Texture acquisition which ultimately became News+, and is reportedly also spending several million dollars per game in Apple Arcade. The Financial Times says the company is spending…
12 Technologies and Services That Saved Gaming on Linux
Gaming on Linux has never been bigger. While the library isn’t as large as what you find on Windows, today you can play thousands of games for Linux. Many of them are AAA titles. That’s a big change from a decade ago, when most games were free and open source hobbyist efforts. This transition didn’t…
Apple Arcade is a new game subscription for iOS, Mac, and Apple TV
https://youtu.be/95FuVib8mcY Apple is unveiling a new Apple Arcade game subscription service today at the company’s “show time” event. Unlike cloud gaming services from competitors like Sony, Microsoft, Google, and Nvidia, Apple’s gaming subscription isn’t designed to stream games to iOS devices. Instead, it’s a subscription game service for titles that can be installed from the…

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