Final Fantasy 14 had a rough start, especially on Mac. The base game was flawed in so many ways, even Square Enix worried it could be “the end of Final Fantasy”. And to make matters worse, FFXIV’s Mac performance was so poor at launch, Square Enix officially apologized, suspended sales, and offered refunds: After careful […]
Seemingly overnight, Battle Royale games have become all the rage. Led by Player Unknown Battleground but now surpassed by Fortnite, 100-player last-person-standing games have caught more attention than any other genre before. In Fortnite, you jet glide to your chosen spot on an island and start hunting other players and gathering gear. Every encounter is […]
The adventure genre is one of the most diverse in all of gaming, encompassing everything from point-and-click mysteries to casual puzzlers to action-packed epics. That makes it somewhat difficult to isolate the very best, but it also means there’s something for everyone. Also, keep in mind that we have considered all types of adventure games […]
City building sims have been around almost as long as the Macintosh, and for most of that time, the genre was synonymous with SimCity. Over time, however, the quality of the franchise declined until the disastrous release of the rebooted SimCity. In 2015, developer Colossal Order saw the opportunity and released Cities: Skylines. Under continuous […]
We were so obsessed with Apple deprecating OpenGL (spoiler alert: we never saw real consequences), we missed the real issue looming on the horizon: the removal of 32-bit support. MacOS Catalina, officially released in October 2019, completely removed the support of 32-bit applications. This meant upgrading to the latest macOS version meant giving up on […]
You know we’re big supporters of only playing native games on our Macs. After all, they’re the easiest to install, the easiest to run, and they directly support developers who bring their games to macOS. Plus, many of the best games support MacOS, including most indies. But to be fair, some big games are not […]
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