Newly announced games for Mac.

Huh … they didn’t announce this game for the Mac but you’ll never guess who’s pissed about that:


It’s true, Blizzard used to be a reliable Mac developer. Hopefully with the changes outlined in the WWDC they can be again. Otherwise they face the wrath of … Whoopi Goldberg.

I had no idea she was a gamer.
 
dada_dave said:
Huh … they didn’t announce this game for the Mac but you’ll never guess who’s pissed about that:


It’s true, Blizzard used to be a reliable Mac developer. Hopefully with the changes outlined in the WWDC they can be again. Otherwise they face the wrath of … Whoopi Goldberg.

I had no idea she was a gamer.
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Good for her. It’s a shame they stopped making Mac games and it would be amazing if Whoopi could bully them into porting Diablo, but I doubt it
 
Formerly_Jimmyjames said:
Good for her. It’s a shame they stopped making Mac games and it would be amazing if Whoopi could bully them into porting Diablo, but I doubt it
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Hopefully Mac games and a change in company culture 😬. I’ve heard Diablo 4 is good and even developers who have had problems with Blizzard want people to buy/play the game to support their work, but damn.
 
Star Trek!

"Paradox Interactive and developer Nimble Giant Entertainment, under license from Paramount Consumer Products, today revealed Star Trek: Infinite, a grand strategy game based on the iconic sci-fi franchise. Set a few decades before Star Trek: The Next Generation, players will run an entire fleet within the Star Trek universe, commanding one of four major powers in the galaxy: the United Federation of Planets, Romulan Star Empire, Cardassian Union, or Klingon Empire."

"Star Trek: Infinite is coming to PC and macOS this Fall."



Paradox Interactive and Paramount Consumer Products Announce A New Grand Strategy Game, Star Trek: Infinite

Boldly Go Where No One Has Gone Before, Exploring Unique Stories And Quests On PC and macOS This
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I call dibs on the Cardassians!
 
The mainstream press is starting to pick up on Apple's efforts in Mac gaming.

www.forbes.com

Can Apple Silicon Handle High-Level PC Games? An Interview With A ‘Resident Evil’ Developer

For nearly two decades, computer games have been synonymous with Windows computers. If you were serious about, say, World of Warcraft or Dota, you got a Windows PC.
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In the interview, according to Tsuyoshi Kanda, a Capcom producer who was in charge of developing Resident Evil Village:

"The RE [Resident Evil] engine was initially developed [years ago] with Windows architecture in mind, so when I was tasked with porting it to Apple silicon, I thought it would be really challenging," he said. "But it went surprisingly smoothly, thanks to the unified memory of Apple silicon."
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Whenever I hear about third-party graphics cards or eGPUs, this is proof enough that we won't see them. It's the console-like development environment that makes the difference.

"MetalFX allowed Resident Evil Village to pull off tasks similar to Nvidia’s machine learning DLSS," Kanda added, referring to AI-powered graphics that are found in high-end graphics card for Windows computers.
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BTW, this stuck out to me:

However, it hasn’t been all smooth sailing. Kanda conceded the team hasn’t been able to figure out how to incorporate ray-tracing technology (technology that allows lighting in 3D graphics to reflect off other 3D graphics with real-life physics) into the Mac version of the game yet. But that’s something his team is working on.
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I wonder if Kanda is aware that hardware ray tracing is in the works for future Apple Silicon, but had to give a political answer, by saying "we're working on it".
 
Colstan said:
BTW, this stuck out to me:



I wonder if Kanda is aware that hardware ray tracing is in the works for future Apple Silicon, but had to give a political answer, by saying "we're working on it".
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Interesting article, thanks for posting it. I agree hopefully it's just filling in safe answers until the “real” answer arrives.
 
Colstan said:
I wonder if Kanda is aware that hardware ray tracing is in the works for future Apple Silicon, but had to give a political answer, by saying "we're working on it".
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Could also be that he doesn’t know. Apple NDAs are legendary for a reason.
 
MrMacRight has released a performance and technical review of Bloober Team's Layers of Fear for Apple Silicon Macs. It's the first Unreal Engine 5 game for Mac, specifically 5.1.1, and is compatible with all features, excluding ray tracing. The review isn't really about the game, but the technical details, performance on multiple Mac models, and comparing upscaling technologies between TSR and MetalFX.

 
I haven’t heard anything, but I would love to know how RE:Village did in terms of sales. It would be great if Capcom made good money. I was hoping perhaps more games would follow such as the RE 4 remake or even Street Fighter 6.
 
Jason Snell on the Upgrade podcast, claims Assassins Creed Mirage is coming to Mac. Not clear whether he’s speculating, or he has heard something.
 
Nycturne said:
Apple said it's coming to iPhone. Mac doesn't feel like much of a stretch to be honest.
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I'm hoping and thinking this is the strategy. Get games on all platforms and show that combined, Apple has a sizeable market to address. If the 15 Pro has gpu perf that can enable actual console and pc titles, that could change things.
 
Nycturne said:
Apple said it's coming to iPhone. Mac doesn't feel like much of a stretch to be honest.
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You’d think … but there have been big games that came to iOS, iPadOS, Windows PC, XBox, PS, Switch, and Android but not macOS. 🤷‍♂️ It’s one of the reasons I roll my eye a little when (Linux) users rage against Metal as the reason Mac (Linux) gaming isn’t bigger and why doesnt Apple just adopt Vulkan. Because yeah that would solve the problem …
 
Jimmyjames said:
RE4 confirmed for Mac as well as iOS!

capcom-games.com

Resident Evil Series Releases for Apple Devices｜CAPCOM

You favorite CAPCOM masterpieces, coming soon to Apple devices!
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I'd be all over that. But my first experience with the game was in VR. Even though it looks much better, and it would be fun to have something to run on my Mac, I'm not sure it could top the VR experience. I even just started playing it again recently when I couldn't get connected to my PC. I might play some more tonight.
 
dada_dave said:
You’d think … but there have been big games that came to iOS, iPadOS, Windows PC, XBox, PS, Switch, and Android but not macOS. 🤷‍♂️ It’s one of the reasons I roll my eye a little when (Linux) users rage against Metal as the reason Mac (Linux) gaming isn’t bigger and why doesnt Apple just adopt Vulkan. Because yeah that would solve the problem …
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Oh, I get it. Something like Minecraft Bedrock Edition runs fine on M1 machines if you can get it installed. But platforms also invoke a support cost (testing, etc). I see so many devs get squeamish on that front.
 
Jimmyjames said:
I'm hoping and thinking this is the strategy. Get games on all platforms and show that combined, Apple has a sizeable market to address. If the 15 Pro has gpu perf that can enable actual console and pc titles, that could change things.
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So from this interview, the strategy does seem to be as mentioned.
www.ign.com

Apple Answers of All Our iPhone 15 Pro Questions: 'It's Going to be the Best Game Console' - IGN

The iPhone 15 is out on September 22 and it promises to deliver some unprecedented gaming capabilities, IGN sat down with Apple to dive deeper into the gaming features coming to the iPhone 15 Pro.
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Jimmyjames said:
So from this interview, the strategy does seem to be as mentioned.
www.ign.com

Apple Answers of All Our iPhone 15 Pro Questions: 'It's Going to be the Best Game Console' - IGN

The iPhone 15 is out on September 22 and it promises to deliver some unprecedented gaming capabilities, IGN sat down with Apple to dive deeper into the gaming features coming to the iPhone 15 Pro.
www.ign.com www.ign.com
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Another key point: We’re a far cry away from the days of “oh and all games have to be playable on the Apple Remote - which everyone will have - so developers won’t that be great?”
 
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