Through a partnership with TransGaming Inc.,
Ubisoft is poised to bring select titles to Mac gamers (yes, we repeat: "Mac gamers") through retail and digital download channels. The two most significant offerings will be
Prince of Persia and
Shaun White Snowboarding, although Ubisoft will also provide
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation: Hard Evidence,
Rayman Raving Rabbids and
Petz Sports to retail locations for the first time. Those games are currently only available through Ubisoft's website.
You can download
Prince of Persia and
Shaun White Snowboarding for Mac from Ubisoft's site (and look for the other games on retail shelves) next month.
{ Feb 19th 2009 at 6:45PM } 
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The Dark Wayne @ Feb 19th 2009 6:48PM
"mac gamers"
lol
MowDownJoe @ Feb 19th 2009 6:52PM
"Petz Sports"
lol at anyone touching that.
Bauer22 @ Feb 19th 2009 7:34PM
HA HA HA It's funny because Mac's aren't know for gaming!!!
Azerael @ Feb 19th 2009 9:22PM
"Mac gamer" here. I've been a huge PC gamer all my life, but work (I'm a graphic designer) requires that I use a Mac.
Fortunately, my Macbook Pro is more than sufficient to play (very well, I might add) anything other than Crysis. All I do is boot into Windows, load up Steam, and I'm away. So yeah, we exist, but we don't use OS X to do it.
For the record, Transgaming create emulator software. So the 'mac versions' of these games are really just the Windows code running on an emulator. Expect shite performance.
Marty @ Feb 20th 2009 12:48AM
Please. Unless you're using something like Final Cut Pro, there's no reason why you have to own a Mac as a designer. I am a professional designer myself, and unless I absolutely have to use a Mac, I get all my work done on my PC just fine.
Strategy_Panda @ Feb 20th 2009 1:22AM
@Azerael
"All I do is boot into Windows..."
oh, so your a windows gamer then
Azerael @ Feb 20th 2009 3:25AM
@Marty,
Actually I do use Final Cut, as well as the Logic suite.
But yeah, my workplace is set up for Macs. We all use them for our work, our fileservers are set up to support them, our IT dept are trained to service them. You must be a freelancer or work for a govt. department, 'cause most of the creative industries use Macs pretty much exclusively (except for 3D animation studios, that tend to use custom linux distros a lot).
Oh, and you could lose the condescending tone. Makes you look like a bit of a douche.
Marty @ Feb 19th 2009 6:55PM
I'm sure all Mac gamers will be ecstatic about this. All 5 of them.
Shmil @ Feb 19th 2009 7:21PM
Hey! Bob and Jim just switched, now there's 7 mac gamers thank you very much.
liquidmark @ Feb 19th 2009 8:07PM
yah, 1997 called, it wants its joke back.
chispito @ Feb 19th 2009 9:17PM
Liquid:
Are you suggesting that "Mac Gaming" is no longer a joke?
THE WICKER MAN (BWF) (GT: Dalek Prime) @ Feb 19th 2009 11:15PM
i guess i make 8 marty. dildo.
Discotheque @ Feb 20th 2009 3:39AM
Ecstatic? About Ubisoft games? impossible. They need a new Michel Ancel game fast! They are looking stale and crap right now.
t3kni9e @ Feb 19th 2009 6:57PM
Too bad it costs a hell of alot of money to be a mac gamer.
liquidmark @ Feb 19th 2009 8:00PM
It costs about the same as being a PC gamer.
Quiggy @ Feb 19th 2009 8:22PM
Less, probably. Mac games will work right out of the box on any newer Mac, with no need for picking up additional video cards or whatever the fuck is needed these days.
The Baron @ Feb 19th 2009 8:58PM
You guys are hilarious.
A £1500 mac comes with the same old graphics card and components I could put in a PC for £700. Unless you're spending £800 on premium rate phone calls to support because a PC game "doesn't work out of the box", I'm pretty sure the costs are the other way round.
Joeshie @ Feb 19th 2009 10:34PM
Macs cost ridiculously too much over their PC counterparts. I remember recently looking at one of Macs "gaming setups", which featured "top-of-the-line" hardware like the nVidia 9800GT. In the end, it cost like $2500 dollars for a decent gaming Mac, one I could have easily assembled for under $600. Hell, fucking Alienware probably is cheaper than Macs.
But hey, you Mac fans are paying all that extra just for the "experience of a Mac computer", amirite?
jackal @ Feb 20th 2009 7:05AM
Liquidmark,
Really? An entry level iMac (up here in Canada) comes in around $1300 excluding GTS and PST. According to Apple Canada's website, here are the specs they currently got listed for it:
2.4 GHz Core 2 Duo, 1 GB of memory, 250 GB HDD, 8x Dual Layer DVD writer, and an HD 2400 XT (which, in gaming, is roughly half as fast as Geforce 6600 GT despite being 2 years newer). It's listed at $1299.99.
Compare that to the rig I built last September:
3.0 GHz Core 2 Duo, 2x1 GB DDR2 memory, 500 GB HDD, 22x Dual Layer DVD writer, and a Diamond HD 4870 XOC with the fastest factory overclocks available for HD 4870's (800/1100 vs 750/900). I also bought a Cooler Maser Cosmos 1000, an ASUS p5Q Deluxe motherboard with embedded Linux, a PC Power & Cooling Silence 750 watt Crossfire edition PSU (one of, if not the, best 750 watt PSU's available on the market), an OCZ Vindicator CPU heatsink, and a tube of OCZ Freeze (which rivals or surpasses some of the best thermal paste products on the market). All that came in at $1215.00, $1396 after tax. If I built a rig now, I could've either paid for better hardware at the same price or built the same computer at around 75% of what I paid 6 months ago (due to some aggressive price cuts on some of the components).
Apple does not offer a single product comparable to mine in terms of hardware or performance until you start looking at Mac Pros, with the entry level coming in at $1200 more (before tax) with the only hardware advantage being a quad core server processor (2.8 GHz Xenon). It only comes with a mouse and keyboard; no monitors, no software bundles, or hardware extras (wifi, multiple HDDs, etc).
While Mac computers are well built machines with great aesthetics, don't think for a moment you're not paying substantially more for less compared to what you could build yourself or buy pre-built from a vendor like Dell; for example, their XPS 630 has the processor as I do, dual Geforce 9800 GT's, 6 GB DDR2 800, and a 640 MB HDD for $1399.
t3kni9e @ Feb 21st 2009 1:52AM
Too bad I can't build one either :( I kind of know the inner workings of computers and im damn sure I can actually put it together, but I just know i'll screw something up because of compatibility problems (god I hate this part about computers).
Thinking of buying a computer with a quad core without the Mouse/Keyboard/Printer/Monitor and just stick a nice graphic card in it. Hopefully it will last a decent amount of time.
Sir Buzz Killington( The Artist formerly known as Jakka) @ Feb 19th 2009 6:57PM
An oxymoron on par with Microsoft Works.
You don't see that everyday.
Moptimus Slime (Leader of the Taylor Swift Defense Force, Gobot in disguise) @ Feb 19th 2009 7:09PM
how about Microsoft Excel? or SecuROM?
Sir Buzz Killington( The Artist formerly known as Jakka) @ Feb 19th 2009 7:43PM
SecuROM, haha good one.
Moptimus Slime (Leader of the Taylor Swift Defense Force, Gobot in disguise) @ Feb 19th 2009 7:01PM
Rayman Raving Rabbids? As in the first one that came out in 06? I'm sure all those snooty English majors can't wait to play that
Delirium @ Feb 19th 2009 7:20PM
Mac...Gamer? The fuck is that?
pickleman77 @ Feb 19th 2009 7:28PM
I can't find those games for Mac on their website... And yes, I have a Mac. Sue me.
Jose @ Feb 19th 2009 7:37PM
Why don't these assholes work on putting out the PoP DLC on the PC instead of introducing new platforms for current titles?
Partner @ Feb 19th 2009 7:52PM
Hmm, I first played Prince of Persia on the Mac, and probably have it around somewhere...
I seem to remember it had an annoying copy protection scheme which required you to periodically refer to the instruction manual.
Alex McKee @ Feb 19th 2009 9:01PM
Yeah, it's still in it on GameTap. You hafta have a PDF of the manual open to check through when you wanna play it. And you thought SecuROM was bad. At least it doesn't require us to.... GASP! Read! Mac gamers exist BTW, they just use Cider or boot into Windows to play games.
Strategy_Panda @ Feb 19th 2009 9:22PM
wow, if I still owned a Mac I would be pissed
THE WICKER MAN (BWF) (GT: Dalek Prime) @ Feb 19th 2009 11:13PM
love my new mac book pro. this is whats wrong with computer gaming. having to update install register puke. no wonder console is king. pcs are a dying snobby dinosaur. my 360 gives me good games when its not busy dying of rrod. seems like it would be sensible for the computer games to run on both and not require a fucking rig that would have been better spent on a new home or feeding your family...
Strategy_Panda @ Feb 20th 2009 1:19AM
I hope you realize that the consoles (the xbox 360 in particular) are forms of DRM. On the 360, Microsoft controls 100% of what you see and have access to. They can restrict that access at any time and for almost any reason. You have no way of modifying your gameplay experience, and if you want to upgrade your system, you have to buy proprietary hardware. You pay for the privilege of playing games online. When the console generation is done, you will have to keep your 360 and hope it doesn't die or continuously buy replacement parts and systems on ebay if you want to keep it running.
I'm not saying its better or worse, just food for thought.
Oh, and there are more computer gamers in the world than console gamers. FYI
Jose @ Feb 20th 2009 7:49PM
You just dropped the "Macbook Pro" (not simply "Macbook") ref, and told PC gamers to feed their families then go on to state that we PC gamers are snobby? That $200 I just spent for a second VGA card could have been my second bathroom, put my illegitimate children through four years at Stanford, or maybe even moved us from the convenience of the city out to the suburban sprawl. Sounds fucking blissful.
Just because we'd rather build (one of) our game machines ourselves (because it's fun), and not overpay for two year old hardware painted lily white and etched with a Beatles logo doesn't mean we're poor dinosaurs who can care for neither ourselves nor our kin. Running "on both" isn't as simple when the one game must run within two completely different software environs, and an almost infinite number hardware combinations. Games don't come on PS3/360 combo disks, and never will for entirely too many reasons to continue, and the PC/Mac situation isn't too dissimilar to draw comparison. The advantages and disadvantages of PC gaming are fully weighed, and some of us still believe it's still worth it. You haven't come to that conclusion, but that doesn't mean you gotta talk shit. Valve still thinks there's money in PC gaming, as does Blizzard, and these are two of many game developers that seem to consistently be doing alright for themselves.
Also, I'm not sure, because I don't touch the shit, but I'm fairly certain Macs got shift keys too.
tsamb @ Feb 19th 2009 11:37PM
Hey! I was a Mac Gamer in the early 90s. 3 by Three and Midnight Rescue for the win!
Ranus Studios @ Feb 20th 2009 1:56AM
My three year-old Mac is a beast even by today's standards, but it's a PowerPC, so just like everything else I've ever wanted to do on it, my computer probably won't run this.
I miss Windows.
Uncontrol @ Feb 20th 2009 2:25AM
I love my MacBook, but the only game I give a fuck about working on it is Diablo 3.
FemaleOrca @ Feb 20th 2009 4:36PM
Amen. Better yet, any possibly chance of some rogue coder at Blizzard doing a console port?
Please don't hit me.
t_m @ Feb 20th 2009 3:08AM
How about some linux versions?
I wish i could switch to linux full time, its much more fun to use for everything.... except games.
Raszeck @ Feb 20th 2009 5:29AM
...Hey.... I'm a mac user, and I'm a gamer..... so that makes me a mac gamer, hell, we DO exist, .... For you that should be My name is legion for we are many as you seem to consider mac gamers demons
Roto13 @ Feb 20th 2009 12:04PM
Do you actually play games on your Mac, though?
Raszeck @ Feb 20th 2009 12:36PM
Hell yeah, I do play games on my mac. from NWN2 to Spore to mention two.
Not that there aren't games for OS X... However, I mostly use my computer for work. In my spare time when I'm not near of one of my consoles, I DO play games on Mac as it's the only computer platform I've got right now. (Intel mac... my old G4 ibook is all but ready to play games :P)
Partner @ Feb 24th 2009 9:04AM
The only reason I ever boot into Windows is to run games (e.g. Steam, FFXI, PlaneScape: Torment.)
As other posters have mentioned, PC gaming wastes a lot of time with installation, configuration, driver/DLL hell, controller settings, etc., when console gamers can just insert the disc and play. And forget the "disc" part for PSN/XBLA/Virtual Console/ etc..
That being said, I think I will have a bit of fun with Fable, NWN2, Spore, etc. on my MacBook Pro. Give me Diablo III, StarCraft II, and a couple of BioWare-style RPGs, and that should soak up my non-console-gaming time.