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Mac gaming on the cheap: Our favorite low-cost Mac games
With the release of Myst Online for the Mac* (and our own nagging, monthly World of Warcraft bills), we TUAW bloggers got together to discuss our favorite low-cost Mac games. Sure, those MMORPGs are fun, but $14.99/month (Warcraft) and $6.95/month (Myst) isn't. So, in the name of gaming cheapskates everywhere, here's our list of great, inexpensive Mac games (in no particular order).SketchFighter 4000 Alpha by Ambrosia Software. Cost: $19US. Requirements: Mac OS 10.2 or later.By Ambrosia Software, this shoot-em-up game features upgradeable spaceships, mean bosses, challenging levels and even a level editor. But most of all, we love the dead-on, retro, "hand-sketched" graphics. SketchFighter was designed to look like the very images that young geeks like me spent all of Jr. high school scribbling on notebook paper, and the developers at Ambrosia really nailed it. As an 11 year old, I could only imagine my creations coming to life. Ambrosia made it actually happen, and as a result SketchFighter is wicked fun to play.More after the jump.
Bungie's Myth II coming to GameTap March 22.
var digg_url = 'http://digg.com/gaming_news/Bungie_s_Myth_II_coming_to_GameTap_March_22'; For those cool enough to be down with Bungie before they became "The Halo Company," Myth II tends to conjure fond memories of great Mac gaming. Sure, it was available for PC as well, but you folks were too busy with your Command & Conquer's and your Warcraft's and your... rock music...Come March 22nd, PC users will get another chance to appreciate the last, great, pre-Halo Bungie title via GameTap. Having lost the rights to the Myth franchise some years ago, Take 2 Interactive will be the ones supplying the goods.Myth III will also be available, but, uh, pay no attention to that.
Debunking a PSP myth: it has no good games
Anyone that has been around the Internet block or visited a game store lately may have heard someone claim the PSP has little to no good games on the platform. If you're anything like me, you like to wear your girlfriend's underwear and you also hate to hear bad words about the PSP. My personal PSP game collection is larger than my DS or Xbox 360 game libraries and after hearing about the lack of great games on the system so often, I began to wonder if perhaps I just had a terrible taste in games. While I can't prove that my gaming interests are worthwhile, I did dig up some info on the PSP library and whether or not there are many quality games on the system. It isn't just gaming fans who dis the PSP, critics do as well. Keeping that in mind, I wondered how the PSP game library critically stacked up against its competitor; the oft praised DS. What I found may be surprising. Data Collected from Metacritic Amount of US released PSP games rated 80 and above: 38 (not counting Advent Children since it isn't a game) Amount of US released DS games rated 80 and above: 28 (and 4 of those are versions of Nintendogs) So it seems that these same critics that praise PSP games, must have a short-term memory when they bash the system's lack of quality titles. I'm in no way trying to put down the DS with the example listed above, just attempting to prove that the PSP isn't devoid of quality like an episode of War at Home. Hopefully fellow PSP fanboys can use the above proof to dissuade negative words about your system of choice. In any case, it should make you feel good about owning the system.
A Requiem for Soulblighter
Oh, the times we had together, my Soulblighter CD and me back in the halcyon days of 1998 and 1999, he with his shiny silvery surface and colorful Bungie label. Soulblighter's parents hadn't yet been purchased by the evil monopolistic overlords, and the future looked bright and shiny. After one exhausting evening of gameplay, Soulblighter even let slip some advanced information about a new edition coming to our Bungie family, an offspring so gloriously magnificent that it would change the world of Mac gaming. Of course, we know the rest of the sad story of Halo; I don't have to recite it here. As these things often go, Soulblighter and I drifted apart after that sad day in June of 2000.So imagine my surprise when Soulblighter resurfaced into my life last weekend from a dusty CD spindle, and his news was spectacular. As much as I loved Soulblighter and his younger siblings, there has been a group of people toiling away for several years whom possess an even greater love of the Bungie children of Myth. This group of people is called Project Magma, and they have made it possible for all of us to re-unite with Soulbighter and his siblings natively in Mac OS X!Oh, how I danced with joy and tears came to my eyes as Soulblighter once again entered my life. Oh 'Blight, how I've missed thee. Rejoice, rejoice, for thee runneth joyously on my MacBookPro.
Check out this Mini-ATX PVR
We are sure that is a dream of must of our readers to have a custom PVR but like myself just cannot stand to put a computer tower next to my HDTV. Sure there are some sweet home theater cases but they tend to be pricy. Check out this mini-ATX case that has MYTH TV installed on it. But the link does not simply bring you to a preaty picture but a step-by-step process of installing and configuring the software. Check it out. Oh, the site has been slashdotted so it has slow loading times.[via Slashdot]
How to: get tons of HD content playing on your PC
Now that we have mastered OTA HD reception and connecting our PC's to our HDTVs it's time to bring the two together. HDTV content can come from many sources and those choices get broader and broader everyday. In the future there are going to be more options, but I am going to cover the options that are currently available.
