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Thread: Free Mac (and occasionally Windows) games
Post: RE: Free Mac (and occasionally Windows) games
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ehuelga Wrote: (05-16-2025, 01:42 PM)
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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://... |
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Matt Diamond |
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05-16-2025, 08:22 PM |
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Thread: Podcast interview with Nat Brown (aka NatBro) on Mac Game Porting and More!
Post: RE: Podcast interview with Nat Brown (aka NatBro) ...
| Great interview. I am a programmer who has first-hand experience with work that goes into developing and maintaining the build pipelines he talks about, but even so I hadn't thought about how much dif... |
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05-14-2025, 09:39 PM |
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Thread: Gaming news: New or upcoming Mac games
Post: RE: Gaming news: New or upcoming Mac games
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Homy Wrote: (05-12-2025, 01:37 PM)
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Since it will have new Metal features like path tracing and frame gen my guess is it will be announced/released at WWDC with updated Metal and an update to Sequo... |
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Matt Diamond |
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05-13-2025, 08:36 AM |
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Thread: Gaming news: New or upcoming Mac games
Post: RE: Gaming news: New or upcoming Mac games
| I believe the last announcement said that Cyberpunk for Mac would be released during Q2. While not officially late yet, it's not too soon for needless speculation!
Which Mac Gamer Are You?(tm)
Optimi... |
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Matt Diamond |
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05-12-2025, 12:41 PM |
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Thread: What games are people playing these days!?
Post: RE: What games are people playing these days!?
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Frigidman Wrote: (04-24-2025, 12:07 PM)
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I've been playing the new Marathon game.
:micdrop:
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Well that got my attention. Are you referring to the ARG, or the closed alpha test? |
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Matt Diamond |
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04-24-2025, 05:42 PM |
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Thread: What games are people playing these days!?
Post: RE: What games are people playing these days!?
| Finally wrapping up Return to Moria (Xbox), a building & survival game set in Middle-Earth.
My earlier comments are still accurate - it's a slow game when played solo by someone like me: methodical... |
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Matt Diamond |
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04-24-2025, 12:03 PM |
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Thread: Whiskey project discontinued
Post: Whiskey project discontinued
| Announcement by the author: Whiskey project discontinued. (https://docs.getwhisky.app/maintenance-notice)
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WhiskyWine will no longer be receiving any further updates. We will not be upg... |
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Matt Diamond |
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04-15-2025, 11:40 AM |
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Thread: Gaming news: New or upcoming Mac games
Post: RE: Gaming news: New or upcoming Mac games
| Assassin's Creed Shadows got patched to 1.0.2. (https://www.ubisoft.com/en-us/game/assassins-creed/news/2FUDlIPb2uWk5Ldb8OhKej/ac-shadows-title-update-102-release-notes) Mac got the patch at the same ... |
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04-15-2025, 10:42 AM |
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Thread: Gaming news: New or upcoming Mac games
Post: RE: Gaming news: New or upcoming Mac games
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Homy Wrote: (04-09-2025, 10:48 PM)
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Mr Pink Wrote: (04-09-2025, 08:11 PM)
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And now it's 19,99€ on the Mac App Store...
No In-App-Purchases until now.
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In Sweden it's down to 165 SEK which i... |
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Matt Diamond |
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04-10-2025, 04:09 PM |
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Thread: Gaming news: New or upcoming Mac games
Post: RE: Gaming news: New or upcoming Mac games
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Homy Wrote: (04-04-2025, 01:10 AM)
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Robocop Rogue City (https://apps.apple.com/us/app/robocop-rogue-city/id6593685038) is coming to Mac on April 30 on Mac App Store. Some say it will come later to ... |
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04-08-2025, 09:25 AM |
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Thread: What games are people playing these days!?
Post: RE: What games are people playing these days!?
| Oh, one more thing about Control - it doesn't seem to notice that my monitor has HDR. Xbox has no problem on the same display and same HDMI switch.
Guessing it's a MacOS thing. I normally have HDR tu... |
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Matt Diamond |
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04-03-2025, 10:25 PM |
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Thread: What games are people playing these days!?
Post: RE: What games are people playing these days!?
| After testing some games on my new Mac Studio a couple weeks ago I went back to trying to finish Return to Moria on Xbox. I'm still having fun discovering new locations and materials, but the pace is ... |
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Matt Diamond |
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04-03-2025, 10:56 AM |
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Thread: Gaming news: New or upcoming Mac games
Post: RE: Gaming news: New or upcoming Mac games
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Homy Wrote: (04-01-2025, 10:43 PM)
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Ayasa: Shadows of Silence (https://store.steampowered.com/app/3146120/Ayasa_Shadows_of_Silence/) and Nietzsche's Shadow (https://store.steampowered.com/app/36201... |
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Matt Diamond |
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04-02-2025, 05:56 PM |
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Thread: M4 Macs
Post: RE: M4 Macs
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Tetsuya Wrote: (03-31-2025, 01:49 AM)
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Unplug the HDMI cable... can immediately select 60hz for the 4k display.
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Bizarre. If you are running at 60hz and then plug the HDMI cable in, does it im... |
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Matt Diamond |
Mac Hardware
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03-31-2025, 11:39 AM |
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Thread: Cheap Mac Games
Post: RE: Cheap Mac Games
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Thain Esh Kelch Wrote: (03-30-2025, 03:42 AM)
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https://www.humblebundle.com/games/dice-and-destiny
Pillars of Eternity 2, Citizen Sleeper 1 + 2, Disco Elysium.
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Wow, I see only one game in t... |
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Matt Diamond |
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03-30-2025, 11:11 PM |
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Thread: Baldur's Gate 3 on Apple Silicon
Post: RE: Baldur's Gate 3 on Apple Silicon
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ozzy Wrote: (03-24-2025, 05:36 PM)
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You should be able to tell from the Activity Monitor when it's running whether it's running ARM vs. x86, right? I unfortunately un-installed BG3 after completing... |
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Matt Diamond |
Mac Adventure, RPG & MMOs
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03-25-2025, 07:10 AM |
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Thread: Baldur's Gate 3 on Apple Silicon
Post: RE: Baldur's Gate 3 on Apple Silicon
| update: BG3 does run if I launch it from GOG Galaxy, but I do not get an option to select ARM vs x86 build, so I believe it is forcing me to the x86 build. This might explain why there aren't a lot of... |
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Matt Diamond |
Mac Adventure, RPG & MMOs
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03-24-2025, 05:26 PM |
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Thread: Baldur's Gate 3 on Apple Silicon
Post: RE: Baldur's Gate 3 on Apple Silicon
| > To your original point though, BG3 ran great for me through Steam on M4 Pro MBP.
Thanks for that.
I have mixed feelings about Steam, especially about their ability to yank access to my games ... |
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Matt Diamond |
Mac Adventure, RPG & MMOs
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03-24-2025, 01:43 PM |
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Thread: Baldur's Gate 3 on Apple Silicon
Post: RE: Baldur's Gate 3 on Apple Silicon
| Update: I can run the Intel version, but only if I run Get Info on the application and select: "Open with Rosetta". Then it launches.
It's funny that to install BG3 GOG made me install GOG Galaxy. ... |
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Matt Diamond |
Mac Adventure, RPG & MMOs
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03-24-2025, 11:33 AM |
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Thread: Baldur's Gate 3 on Apple Silicon
Post: RE: Baldur's Gate 3 on Apple Silicon
| Glad I saw this thread. I bought the GOG version 2 days ago, not actually intending to play it anytime soon. But after seeing this thread I ran a quick test. Sure enough, the ARM version crashed! The ... |
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Matt Diamond |
Mac Adventure, RPG & MMOs
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03-24-2025, 09:44 AM |
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Thread: Gaming news: New or upcoming Mac games
Post: RE: Gaming news: New or upcoming Mac games
| If performance was shaky enough that they felt the need to write that message, they probably should have delayed the Mac port a month or two. The people who wrote that message probably weren't the peo... |
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Matt Diamond |
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03-21-2025, 04:33 PM |
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Thread: Gaming news: New or upcoming Mac games
Post: RE: Gaming news: New or upcoming Mac games
| Cyan adds a new Age to the 2020-21 Myst (https://cyan.com/2025/03/18/press-release-new-age-brings-additional-intrigue-to-2020-myst-remake/)
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the new Age becomes available for the Meta Q... |
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03-19-2025, 10:11 AM |
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Thread: Gaming news: New or upcoming Mac games
Post: RE: Gaming news: New or upcoming Mac games
| Mac version of Control Ultimate Edition was delayed a couple more weeks. App Store's page now says "expected Mar 26".
On the plus side, and probably related: a new patch just came out for Control U... |
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03-18-2025, 02:28 PM |
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Thread: M4 Macs
Post: RE: M4 Macs
| Well I got my Mac Studio M4 Max a few days ago, and I have run some games on it. (Recall that my previous setup was an Intel Mac Mini with eGPU Radeon RX Vega 56 8GB). Some quick impressions, mostly r... |
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Mac Hardware
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03-17-2025, 01:53 PM |
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Thread: M4 Macs
Post: RE: M4 Macs
| Reviews of the M4 Studio are trickling in. Tom's Guide is the only one I read so far that went into any detail about gaming (https://www.tomsguide.com/computing/apple-desktops/apple-mac-studio-m4-max-... |
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Matt Diamond |
Mac Hardware
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03-11-2025, 01:45 PM |
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Thread: M4 Macs
Post: RE: M4 Macs
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DrSal Wrote: (03-07-2025, 06:40 PM)
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If you were using a high refresh rate monitor, you'll suddenly be capped at 60Hz because of Apple's HDMI implementation, unless you use a flashed usb-c to hdmi ... |
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Matt Diamond |
Mac Hardware
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03-09-2025, 01:14 PM |
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Thread: M4 Macs
Post: RE: M4 Macs
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ehuelga Wrote: (03-06-2025, 09:35 PM)
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I priced out a Mini that satisfied my needs, but then looked into a Studio that's slightly beefier for the same price: $2600! Seems worthwhile for getting mor... |
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Matt Diamond |
Mac Hardware
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03-07-2025, 03:42 PM |
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Thread: M4 Macs
Post: RE: M4 Macs
| I have ordered the newly announced M4 Max Mac Studio. Aside from the speed, I'm looking forward to replacing my old Intel Mac Mini and eGPU and external HD, with a single quieter unit. Switching from ... |
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Matt Diamond |
Mac Hardware
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03-06-2025, 12:07 AM |
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Thread: Cheap Mac Games
Post: RE: Cheap Mac Games
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Thain Esh Kelch Wrote: (03-01-2025, 02:38 AM)
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A crazy big indie bundle for 10$+ (https://itch.io/b/2863/california-fire-relief-bundle) supporting California after all the fires. 422 games!
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Matt Diamond |
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03-03-2025, 11:25 AM |
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Thread: Cheap Mac Games
Post: RE: Cheap Mac Games
| "Safe in our World" bundle is no longer in stock-- that was fast. But they are still accepting donations of course. |
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Matt Diamond |
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