SMB3 and Kirby’s Adventure Inspired Platformer SUPER UBI LAND Coming To Wii U This Summer
Tuesday, 23rd April 2013Posted in Preview
Tags: Andrew Augustin, Calum Bowen, Climate Island, Dr. Terrestrial, exclusive interview, linux, mac, Matthew Jones, nintendo, PC, platformer, SMB3, Super Ubi Land, The Adventures of Kirby, wii u
Written by: Craig Hunter
Super Ubi Land is a 2D platforming game that takes cues from Super Mario Bros. 3 and The Adventures of Kirby. Players will take control of an alien known as Ubi on his journey to rebuild his wrecked space ship and return to his home land. In your way will stand 35+ levels of colorful, hand drawn platforming goodness, the evil Dr. Terrestrial, as well as a number of other interesting boss battles. Having already reached its Kickstarter goal, the 2 man dev team consisting of programmer Andrew Augustin, writer Matthew Jones have tapped Two Brothers composer Calum Bowen to score the game.
You can check the game’s awesome theme song and some gameplay footage as well as our exclusive interview with Augustin below.
Valve Quietly Releases The Original Half-Life for Mac and Linux
Friday, 25th January 2013Posted in Industry
Tags: 15, according, cult, half, life, mac, valve, windows
Written by: Craig Hunter
Half -Life was released nearly 15 years ago and was one of the main contributors to Valve achieving worldwide notoriety.
The cult hit shooter Half-Life appeared as a Mac and Linux download today on Steam, according to Cult of Mac via Polygon.
While no official statement has been made from Valve, the quiet release on Mac and Linux has been confirmed by several media outlets.
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Daily Gaming: GOG Brings Over 50 Classic PC Games to Mac
Thursday, 18th October 2012Posted in Industry
Tags: 50, available, best, classic, com, Enhanced Edition, games, GOG, mac, The Witcher 2, titles
Written by: Craig Hunter
Today the online game service GOG.com announced that it’s bringing a number of its classic PC titles over to the Mac (via 9to5). Over 50 titles will be available with about half of them releasing today. GOG has spent over a year preparing these games for Mac, including titles like Syndicate, Ultima and the Wing Commander games. Check out the GOG launch video below.
Having brought us the best in classic titles for many years now, GOG now offers, what they call, “the best games in history” from 1982 all the way until the present. Continue reading “Daily Gaming: GOG Brings Over 50 Classic PC Games to Mac” »
Daily Gaming: Guild Wars 2 Beta Comes to Mac
Tuesday, 18th September 2012Posted in Blog Archive, Gaming
Tags: apple, Areanet, beta, Cient, guild wars 2, mac, NCsoft
Written by: Craig Hunter
Although gaming on the Mac has been mostly limited over the years, things are starting to change somewhat in that regard.
We see a number of triple AAA titles making their way to the Mac platform and today we get word from the folks at NCsoft that it has released an OSX beta client for its popular MMO, Guild Wars 2. Check out the video below to see the Mac beta in action (via GT). Continue reading “Daily Gaming: Guild Wars 2 Beta Comes to Mac” »
Blizzard’s Diablo III Open Beta Weekend Kicks Off Today
Friday, 20th April 2012Posted in Blog Archive, Gaming
Tags: April 20, battle.net, beta, blizzard, Diablo III, download, mac, May 15, open beta weekend, PC
Written by: Craig Hunter
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If you haven’t yet been able to get your hands on Diablo III in one of its closed rounds of beta testing, you’ll be happy to learn that Blizzard announced today an Open Beta Weekend for both Mac and PC users that will simultaneously be a server stress test to prepare for the May 15 launch date.
The open beta weekend officially kicked off at 12:01 PDT today, April 20, and will last until April 23rd at 10:00 a.m. PDT. All you’ll need to participate is a valid Battle.net account, which you can easily create here if you haven’t already. Continue reading “Blizzard’s Diablo III Open Beta Weekend Kicks Off Today” »
‘Code Hero’ Is A 3D Game That Teaches You How To Program Videogames
Friday, 17th February 2012Posted in Blog Archive, Gaming
Tags: android, code, Code Hero, how to, iOS, kickstarter, mac, programming, windows
Written by: Craig Hunter
The online project-funding site Kickstarter has been in a lot of headlines as of late. First we told you about two Kickstarter projects that reached 1 million dollars in funding, and just today a 17-inch Windows tablet being built by a 12-year old. However, an interesting new take on game development (via The Verge) is definitely something that has our attention. Rather than just an online course, “Code Hero” aims to teach you how to build games through a first-person videogame.
Alex Peake and Primer Labs have come up with the innovative and intuitive way to learn how to code games and hope you’re interested in making their plans come to reality. Built on the Unity 3D Engine, Code Hero uses a series of missions and, for the most part, familiar mechanics to both teach the player about coding and allow them to build their own Untiy games while playing. Continue reading “‘Code Hero’ Is A 3D Game That Teaches You How To Program Videogames” »
Apple Drops “Mac” With Mountain Lion Preview, Begins Merging Of iOS and OS X
Thursday, 16th February 2012Posted in Apple, Blog Archive
Tags: 10.8, Airplay, developer preview, iOS, mac, messages, Mountain Lion, Notification Center, OS X
Written by: Craig Hunter
Apple today introduced a developer preview of its next major operating system for Macs called OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion. While the “Mountain Lion” moniker follows on with Apple’s tradition of naming OS releases after cats, one big change to the name is the omission of “Mac”. Apple is dropping the “Mac” from “Mac OS X”, a big change for the operating system that has used “Mac OS” as its identify for 10+ years.
The move is parter of a larger change for Apple and OS X that sees the entire operating system merging with the work done on the iOS operating system for iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. Mountain Lion incorporates many features that Continue reading “Apple Drops “Mac” With Mountain Lion Preview, Begins Merging Of iOS and OS X” »
‘Super Jump World’ by ‘NER Brothers’ is a Super Nintendo Rip-Off for iOS
Wednesday, 4th January 2012Posted in Blog Archive, Gaming
Tags: appstore, iOS, ipad, iPhone, mac, NER Brothers, nintendo, rip-off, Super Jump World, Super Mario Bros
Written by: Craig Hunter
We all know that Nintendo is doing everything they can to distance their franchises from iOS devices, despite just about every other gaming company developing and porting titles to iPhone and iPad. One developer calling themselves “NER Brothers” has taken things into their own hands and released “Super Jump World”, an obvious rip-off of Nintendo’s Super Mario Bros franchise for iOS and Mac OS X.
The good news is it’s actually a half decent game, and probably the closest you’ll get to a mario game on your iPhone Continue reading “‘Super Jump World’ by ‘NER Brothers’ is a Super Nintendo Rip-Off for iOS” »
Apple Beats Out Google with 18 billion App Downloads
Monday, 12th December 2011Posted in Apple, Blog Archive
Tags: android, app, apple, apps, billion, downloads, Lion, mac, market, stats, store
Written by: Craig Hunter
Right on the heels of Google announcing 10 billion downloads in the Android Market, Apple has today shared some numbers announcing impressive stats for the App Store and Mac App Store.
Apple has officially announced the App Store on iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch is home to over 500,000 apps with more than 18 billion app downloads since the store’s launch.
Currently, an average of about 1 billion apps are being downloaded per month. Google also now claims approximately 1 billion downloads per month, but Apple’s numbers didn’t include the Mac App Store, which has reached over 100 million downloads in less than a year since launch. Continue reading “Apple Beats Out Google with 18 billion App Downloads” »
Nuance speech-to-text comes to Mac OS X on the cheap with Dragon Express app
Thursday, 10th November 2011Posted in Apple, Blog Archive, Technology
Tags: app, dictate, dragon, express, mac, recognition, software, speech, speech-to-text
Written by: Craig Hunter
It looks like I will no longer have to write these articles with my hands, as the new Dragon Express app from voice recognition experts Nuance is an inexpensive option for quality speech-to-text functionality on a Mac.
Well, it’s inexpensive at least in comparison to Nuance’s well-established Dragon Dictate software. The new app is essentially a lightweight version of the full $199 Dragon Dictate app, and provides the majority of features the average user will require.
So how does it work? After you’ve installed the app from the Mac App Store, it will exist within your menubar at the top of your screen. You can launch Continue reading “Nuance speech-to-text comes to Mac OS X on the cheap with Dragon Express app” »
Growl 1.3 gets rewritten as $1.99 Mac App Store app
Tuesday, 4th October 2011Posted in Blog Archive, Technology
Tags: app, growl, huge, mac, new, notification, notifications, version
Written by: Craig Hunter
Growl, best known as an OS X notification system compatible with a ton of apps and aiming to be a sort of customizable, system-wide notification system in many ways, has just received a huge update. Version 1.3 not only includes a ton of new features, it’s also the first time Growl will be available exclusively in the Mac App Store.
What can you expect from the new version? The developers have completely rewritten Growl and, for starters, created a entirely redesigned UI that lets you access everything from a menubar icon. A new preference pane also lets you easily search through your full notifications history, tweak your preferences, and apply themes. Continue reading “Growl 1.3 gets rewritten as $1.99 Mac App Store app” »
FIFA Soccer 12 lands on Mac OS X
Wednesday, 28th September 2011Posted in Blog Archive, Gaming, Technology
Tags: cider, ea, enablement, fifa, mac, newTransGaming, player, soccer
Written by: Craig Hunter
In a franchise first, EA and TransGaming have announced they’re bringing FIFA Soccer 12 to Mac OS X for $39.99.
Much the same as Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas and The Sims 3, the port will be accomplished using TransGaming’s Cider Mac enablement platform. Continue reading “FIFA Soccer 12 lands on Mac OS X” »
Unreal Engine 3 comes to Mac OS X with new UDK beta
Tuesday, 20th September 2011Posted in Blog Archive, Gaming, Technology
Tags: App Store, apple, beta, engine, games, iOS, mac, OSX, support, udk, unreal
Written by: Craig Hunter
Epic Games just announced that the Unreal Development Kit Beta, released yesterday, now includes support for Mac OS X. This will see games running on Mac OS using Unreal Engine 3, much like the company has done with iOS titles on iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. The update also brings added support for iOS… Continue reading “Unreal Engine 3 comes to Mac OS X with new UDK beta” »
Steam offering Portal for PC and Mac for free until Sept.20
Saturday, 17th September 2011Posted in Blog Archive, Gaming
Tags: 99, just, mac, making, new, original, PC, portal, steam, valve
Written by: Craig Hunter
Much like they did for the release of the original Portal port for Mac OS X, Valve is making the first installment of the incredible first-person puzzler available for free on both PC and Mac until September 20th. Continue reading “Steam offering Portal for PC and Mac for free until Sept.20” »
Batman: Arkham Asylum makes its way to Mac OS X October 13
Thursday, 15th September 2011Posted in Blog Archive, Gaming
Tags: apple, arkham, asylum, batman, experience, feral, mac, os, release
Written by: Craig Hunter
We all know that Batman: Arkham Asylum, originally released almost two years back on Xbox, PS3, and PC, received critical acclaim and was arguably one of the better games of the year. Now Mac users can soon get the experience natively on OS X (without running Windows on BootCamp or OnLive) as Feral Interactive plans on launching the title via the Mac App Store on October 13. Continue reading “Batman: Arkham Asylum makes its way to Mac OS X October 13” »
Deus Ex: Human Revolution coming to Mac this winter
Monday, 12th September 2011Posted in Blog Archive, Gaming
Tags: 2011, apple, deus, ex, feral, Interactive, it's, mac, os, OSX, released, steam
Written by: Craig Hunter
An announcement from Feral Interactive fills us in on the company’s plans to release their latest title, Deus Ex: Human Revolution, for Mac.
From the announcement:
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Adobe’s Carousel for iOS lets you store and edit your photos in the cloud
Wednesday, 7th September 2011Posted in Blog Archive, Technology
Tags: adobe, app, available, carousel, cloud, edit, iOS, mac, new, photo, storage
Written by: Craig Hunter
Adobe is definitely not joking about making tools available to iOS developers with the recent release of a new PDF creation app and a web design tool for iPad and iPhone.
The company announced a new app called Carousel that will allow you to store, edit, and access your photo collection in the cloud. Of course we aren’t sure if this stands a chance against Apple’s forthcoming iCloud photo services (especially as native editing features on iOS mature), but it’s interesting nonetheless. Continue reading “Adobe’s Carousel for iOS lets you store and edit your photos in the cloud” »
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