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Thread: Free Mac (and occasionally Windows) games
Post: RE: Free Mac (and occasionally Windows) games
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Homy Wrote: (05-15-2025, 04:45 PM)
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Nubs! Arena (https://store.steampowered.com/app/2337860/Nubs_Arena/) for Win is free on Steam.
Dead Island 2 (https://store.epicgames.com/en-US/p/dead-island-2)... |
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ehuelga |
General
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05-16-2025, 01:42 PM |
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Thread: M4 Macs
Post: RE: M4 Macs
| I priced out a Mini that satisfied my needs, but then looked into a Studio that's slightly beefier for the same price: $2600! Seems worthwhile for getting more ports.
2025 Mac mini M4 Pro 14-core G... |
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ehuelga |
Mac Hardware
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03-06-2025, 09:35 PM |
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Thread: Free Mac (and occasionally Windows) games
Post: RE: Free Mac (and occasionally Windows) games
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Thain Esh Kelch Wrote: (11-16-2024, 05:45 AM)
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Half-Life 2 including the 20th anniversary update, and Episode 1 + 2 free on Steam (https://store.steampowered.com/app/220/HalfLife_2/).
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Longtime... |
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ehuelga |
General
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11-18-2024, 03:24 PM |
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Thread: Upcoming Marathon game
Post: Upcoming Marathon game
| Damn. And here I was looking forward to frog blasting the vent core. |
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ehuelga |
Windows Gaming
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05-24-2023, 07:45 PM |
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Thread: What games are people playing these days!?
Post: What games are people playing these days!?
| My kid was intrigued by a Subnautica channel on Youtube, so I grabbed it from a Steam sale this week.
It's pretty, and exploring is moderately fun (if you're into the whole resource chasing thing). |
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ehuelga |
General
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08-04-2022, 06:07 PM |
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Thread: What games are people playing these days!?
Post: What games are people playing these days!?
| Feeling a bit overwhelmed by real life, I'm spending time in Borderlands games, they're like comfort food. I boot into Mavericks just to hop around in the Pre-Sequel.
Anyone have odds on Wonderlands ... |
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ehuelga |
General
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06-23-2022, 06:23 PM |
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Thread: What games are people playing these days!?
Post: What games are people playing these days!?
| Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel, probably a last run through. I have a Mavericks partition on my 2019 iMac, but I rarely boot it up that way. My son (11) was enjoyed some games there (Halo, Portal 1 & 2),... |
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ehuelga |
General
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05-09-2022, 06:38 PM |
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Thread: What games are people playing these days!?
Post: What games are people playing these days!?
| The Stanley Parable Deluxe Version. It's still pretty amusing. I've found the new content… or at least some of it… how much more is there? It's like an infinite hole… or maybe not so infinite. |
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ehuelga |
General
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05-09-2022, 06:19 PM |
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Thread: What games are people playing these days!?
Post: What games are people playing these days!?
| Finally got Borderlands 3 (cheap sale price and $10 coupon? OK Epic, I give in). Played only a little so far. I can't begrudge them the story; B2 is a peak where most any direction you go would be dow... |
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ehuelga |
General
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12-27-2021, 04:06 PM |
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Thread: Tell me to stop re-buying old games.
Post: Tell me to stop re-buying old games.
| I often feel like Kay, "Guess I have to buy the White Album again. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bKlmoCzBPdw)" |
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ehuelga |
Buy & Sell
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11-05-2021, 05:11 PM |
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Thread: Any Old-Timers Buy 2 Floppy Drives To Avoid Disc Swapping?
Post: Any Old-Timers Buy 2 Floppy Drives To Avoid Disc S...
| I recall having a Mac SE/30 that had two 3.25 drives, one to load the system and the other to load Dark Castle.
Tangentially related: once ordered one of those expensive new 8x CD drives that also re... |
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ehuelga |
Off-Topic
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11-05-2021, 04:17 PM |
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Thread: Returning Gamer
Post: Returning Gamer
| Manage your expectations. All of the above responses are on target. I'm eagerly awaiting benchmarks from the new MBP chips and Rosetta, but think the terrain ahead for our generation of gamers will be... |
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ehuelga |
General
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10-19-2021, 05:59 PM |
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Thread: What games are people playing these days!?
Post: What games are people playing these days!?
| Rise of the Tomb Raider, on easy mode, just for the scenery. Fell for one of these too-cheap-to-pass-up Steam sales. |
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ehuelga |
General
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08-18-2021, 04:27 PM |
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Thread: Myst VR announced
Post: Myst VR announced
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Matt Diamond Wrote: (06-22-2021, 08:54 PM)
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Has any other studio put out the same game so many different ways? And yet I am considering buying it, again.
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Slightly related: yesterday was the 25t... |
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ehuelga |
Mac Adventure, RPG & MMOs
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06-23-2021, 02:22 PM |
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Thread: What games are people playing these days!?
Post: What games are people playing these days!?
| I think I will try the recent Tomb Raider games again. I only played through once and my immediate impression was they were scenically impressive, but just too brutally grim… they'd lost the cartoon f... |
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ehuelga |
General
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06-02-2021, 01:30 PM |
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Thread: Halo Performance with Universal Binary
Post: Halo Performance with Universal Binary
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jos Wrote: (03-31-2021, 11:01 AM)
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What? Is Microsoft magically creating secret C: drives on Macs that have Halo installed? Did they also install DirectX for us and does this mean we can install an... |
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ehuelga |
Mac Action & Shooters
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03-31-2021, 01:58 PM |
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Thread: Halo Performance with Universal Binary
Post: Halo Performance with Universal Binary
| Oh… are we back to posting Halo timedemo scores?
Date / Time: 3/30/21 4:19:53 (0ms)
3600MHz, 32768MB
C:\Applications\Halo.app Frames=4700
Total Time=20.16s
Average frame rate=233.09fps
They'll h... |
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ehuelga |
Mac Action & Shooters
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03-30-2021, 07:28 PM |
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Thread: Shut up shutting up!
Post: Shut up shutting up!
| Gen X old fart here. My Mac gaming bonafides go back to ChopLifter on an Apple ][. Relaxed with a little Borderlands 2 last night. I've got my 10-year-old son into Portal, and he likes wandering aroun... |
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Off-Topic
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01-29-2021, 01:38 PM |
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Thread: What games are people playing these days!?
Post: What games are people playing these days!?
| The whole Myst catalog (https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/8699/Myst_25th_Anniversary_Collection/) is on sale at Steam for $19 (and I've kept a 32-bit High Sierra partition), so… I'm having some no... |
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ehuelga |
General
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12-27-2020, 05:42 PM |
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Thread: Portal 2 Comes To MGS
Post: Portal 2 Comes To MGS
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Matt Diamond Wrote: (08-27-2020, 02:29 PM)
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I had no plans to replay either of those in the near future. So it hadn't registered that they don't run on Catalina-- I am bummed right now.
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I see n... |
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ehuelga |
IMG News Discussion
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08-31-2020, 12:55 PM |
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Thread: Portal 2 Comes To MGS
Post: Portal 2 Comes To MGS
| I kept a High Sierra partition on my iMac just to keep the Portal games around for my kids. Truly two of the most entertaining and intelligent games ever. |
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ehuelga |
IMG News Discussion
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08-27-2020, 01:26 PM |
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Thread: What is left for FPS on macOS?
Post: What is left for FPS on macOS?
| The recent Tomb Raider games were visually impressive, but relentlessly grim and ultra-violent. I'm a big fan of Borderlands 2, which is extraordinarily vast, smartly written, often hilarious, and… ul... |
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ehuelga |
Mac Action & Shooters
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01-22-2020, 03:46 PM |
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Thread: What games are people playing these days!?
Post: What games are people playing these days!?
| Before installing Catalina I'm revisiting old favorites: Halo, Unreal Tournament, Half-Life 2, Portal 1 & 2, Left 4 Dead 2.
It's surprisingly emotional. I was at MacWorld '99 when Steve previewed Hal... |
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ehuelga |
General
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10-22-2019, 04:03 PM |
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Thread: 64-bit apocalypse
Post: 64-bit apocalypse
| Over at least three machines in the past 10+ years I've managed to keep functioning installs of Halo, UT2004, and Jedi Knight II. Sigh… I did prioritize by greatness & fun, IMHO. I guess those will go... |
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ehuelga |
Mac OS Related
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07-31-2017, 01:42 AM |
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Thread: No Man's Sky Coming to Mac after Hectic PC Launch
Post: No Man's Sky Coming to Mac after Hectic PC Launch
| An hilarious example of Marketing vs. reality.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RvAwB7ogkik |
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ehuelga |
Off-Topic
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08-16-2016, 11:24 PM |
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Thread: Has anyone tried Limbo?
Post: Has anyone tried Limbo?
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ehuelga |
Mac Adventure, RPG & MMOs
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03-08-2016, 08:21 PM |
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Thread: The true meaning of fear: Alien: Isolation™ - The Collection stalks on to Mac and Linux September 29
Post: The true meaning of fear: Alien: Isolation™ - The ...
| The atmosphere and audio are terrific (good headphone setting that really gives a 3D space). The puzzle and UI elements are brilliant evocations of 1979 "future" tech, and the glitchy design is fantas... |
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ehuelga |
Mac Action & Shooters
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10-31-2015, 09:13 PM |
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Thread: Pre-Sequel tips, questions, and bug reports.
Post: Pre-Sequel tips, questions, and bug reports.
| I'm having trouble creating new characters. I get the digistruct animation, but no character and no character options.
Steam version, all OS latest and greatest. Happens on both machines I use, an MB... |
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ehuelga |
Mac Action & Shooters
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09-09-2015, 11:26 AM |
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Thread: Alien: Isolation
Post: Alien: Isolation
| Rumor Control, come in please. What news on a Mac port? |
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ehuelga |
Mac Action & Shooters
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03-29-2015, 06:36 PM |
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Thread: Steam files
Post: Steam files
| Easy access to your "hidden" User Library:
From the Finder menu, go to "Go" menu, hold down the option key… voila, now you can go there quickly.
Apple didn't want to completely hide it, just to keep... |
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ehuelga |
Mac OS Related
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06-05-2014, 11:32 AM |
