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In a Q&A posted on Rockstar’s website, a developer mentions that the Grand Theft Auto Trilogy will be coming to Mac, maybe as soon as this year.
From Rockstar Games:
Look for the long-awaited release of the classic Grand Theft Auto Trilogy (Grand Theft Auto III, Grand Theft Auto: Vice City and Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas) for Mac – most likely later this year. We’ll have much more info and a proper announcement soon.
Apple has added a new section to the App Store for Game Center enabled games for iOS 4.1. There are currently around 20 games letting you compare scores and achievements with friends using Game Center, and I’m sure that many more will become available very soon.
Apple’s new social gaming network, Game Center, is now live with the release of iOS 4.1 for iPhone and iPod touch. The first game to be compatible with Game Center was Ms. Pac-Man. Flight Control and Real Racing have also been updated today for Game Center.
I’m sure many more games will be coming out and updated for Game Center within the next few days, and we’ll keep you updated on the latest news about this exciting new iOS feature.
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StarCraft II Gameboard sounds like an interesting iOS app. It lets you remotely control your StarCraft II game from your iPhone, iPod touch or iPad. The biggest problem with this app is that it’s only compatible with StarCraft II running on a Windows machine.
Starcraft 2 Gameboard should be available in the App Store in mid-September for $2.
The Starcraft 2 Gameboard is set for release in September 2010. With the Starcraft 2 Gameboard, you will be able to remotely control your Starcraft 2 game from your iPhone, Ipad, or Ipod touch. It will include many great features such as mini-map control, detailed unit statistics, and easy touch access to the games most important hotkeys and macros.
Apple released a Snow Leopard Graphics Update yesterday and Valve is now reporting a frame rate increase on their games of 15% to 120% on some newer Mac hardware.
From Valve:
We are seeing dramatic performance improvements on iMac (Late 2009 and Mid 2010), Mac mini (Early 2009 and Mid 2010), Mac Pro (Early 2009), MacBook (Early 2009 and Mid 2010) and MacBook Pro (15-inch, Mid 2010) and MacBook Pro (17-inch, Mid 2010) models. Depending on the game, video settings and the hardware, we have measured frame rate improvements from 15% to 120% on these systems. On older systems, we are generally already operating at the limits of the hardware, so it is not obvious that any significant performance improvements can be achieved in the future.
John Carmack of id Software demonstrated Rage on the iPhone running at 60 frames-per-second at QuakeCon 2010 yesterday. The first Rage game for the iPhone will be a small “show-off” sort of title, with a larger game due out next year to coincide with the big game’s release.
Chaos Rings, the very popular iPhone RPG by Square Enix, is now available for iPad. This is basically the same game as the iPhone version, but with higher resolution for the iPad. If you are a fan of the Final Fantasy games, You will love Chaos Rings. It’s available in the App Store for $15.99.
StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty went on sale today. You can purchase a digital copy online at Battle.net for $59.99 starting at 10:00 AM PDT. Or you can purchase a boxed copy at any game retailer. The boxed copies went on sale at midnight.
StarCraft II is a military science fiction real-time strategy game developed by Blizzard Entertainment as a sequel to the award-winning 1998 StarCraft. The game is being released on Mac OS X and Microsoft Windows simultaneously.
StarCraft II is designed to focus more heavily on the multiplayer aspect, when compared to the original StarCraft. Check out the trailer below for a sneak peak at the story behind StarCraft II.
The band Gorillaz has released an iPad and iPhone game based off their latest album Plastic Beach. The game is titled Escape to Plastic Beach and consists of eight levels of gliding action.
For those of you not familiar with the Gorillaz, it is a musical project created by Damon Albarn of the band Blur and Brittish cartoonist Jamie Hewlett. The Gorillaz is basically a virtual band made up of comic book characters. This game brings you into their fictional universe as you fly around on a “Doom Glider” shooting pirates and other enemies while avoiding many obstacles.
The 3D visuals in the game were created by Hewlett and it features music from their Plastic Beach album.
Both the iPad and iPhone versions of Escape to Plastic Beach cost $1.99.
StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty is going to be released for Mac and some other operating system on Tuesday, July 27. Blizzard just released this trailer to help set up the game’s story before release. It’s going to be awesome!
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