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Learning Guides Courses Design Illustration Code Web Design Photo Video Business Music Audio 3D Motion Graphics Free Courses NEW Guides Design Illustration Code Web Design Photo Video Business Music Audio 3D Motion Graphics Game Development Computer Skills eBooks Design Illustration Code Web Design Photo Video Business Music Audio 3D Motion Graphics Student Pricing Advertisement Computer Skills Media 5 Ways to Play Games On Your Mac Advertisement Advertisement Advertisement Advertisement by Jordan Merrick 15 Mar 2013 Difficulty: Intermediate Length: Long Languages: English Deutsch Bahasa Indonesia Melayu Media OS X Until recently, playing games on the Mac was limited to educational titles and the occasional port of a six-year old PC title.

In this guide well look at five ways you can play a wide variety of games on your Mac.

But did you know Halo first debuted at MacWorld and was originally developed for the Mac.

Unfortunately for Apple, Bungie was bought by Microsoft soon after and Halo became the flagship game and franchise for their Xbox console.

With the sheer popularity (and performance) of the Mac, over the last few years, the tide is turning.

PC gaming is somewhat of a misnomer and it has actually referred to Windows gaming.

Since Windows has been (and still is) the largest PC operating system, its little wonder that game developers focus on it.

Unfortunately, because Apple Macs ran on PowerPC architecture with a completely different operating system, many games simply never made it to the Mac.

Mac gaming publishers such as Aspyr attempted to fill in the gap by creating Mac-compatible conversions (called ports).

Whilst this meant a number of games did make it to the Mac, they were hardly ever the latest titles and often required extremely powerful Macs to run the games at a playable rate.

This removed a huge hurdle for developers, the only real hurdle that remains is the different operating system.

Not only did Apple switch to Intel, features such as Boot Camp (allowing you to run Windows natively on the Mac) and virtualisation software (such as Parallels and VMWare Fusion) meant that you could now run pretty much any Windows gaming title you wanted to.

For example, the graphics cards Macs ship with are (compared to PC gaming) average at best.

In addition, the operating system is still something many developers and publishers are new to and so games arent running as efficiently as they can, hence the reason many older games need todays powerful Macs.

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