Jan 17
Spore coming to Mac this year
While Macs may not be known for gaming (probably due to the fact that the selection of games on them is worse then the selection of porn at your local library), occasionally a big title is ported anyway. It was recently announced at the Macworld Expo that one of the most anticipated games of the year would be making its way to Mac soon - Spore. Not only that, but it will be available at the same time as on PC, instead of months or even years later once everyone has stopped caring. The game will be made to work on Macs with TransGaming’s Cider Portability Engine, which means it will only play on Intel Macs.
While it’s great news that an important title like Spore is coming to Mac on day one, it really doesn’t mean much since it’s basically just the PC version put through Cider so it works on Intel Macs too - it’s still not actually built or optimized for Mac. When all they have to do is wrap a game in the Cider Portability Engine and suddenly it runs on Macs, why isn’t every game released on Mac? It seems like there’s really nothing to it besides a licensing fee.
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It’s still coming out on the 360, right?
I don’t think it was ever confirmed for 360 (or PS3 or Wii for that matter), and if it does come out for any of them I’m pretty sure it will be much later then the PC/Mac version - not on day one.
Haha, I read the title and the first thing I thought was, “liar!”