People often ask if PC gaming is dead. This is not a very sensible question. But I, a Mac owner, wonder daily if Mac gaming is alive. Look, I can play Adventure World on my Mac. And Solitaire. But, my goodness, Mac gaming sucks.
And so it was with shock and glee that I, owner of a wonderfully-light MacBook Air, saw today that The Elder Scrolls Online will be coming to PC and Mac next year
https://lastchance.cc/the-elder-scrolls-online-coming-next-year-5907372%3C/a%3E%3C/p%3E
Let me add that to my list of big, upcoming games I expect Iāll be able to play on my Macā¦.
Diablo III
Counter-Strike: GO
Ummmmā¦that next StarCraft expansion?
I am not foolish enough to depend on my Mac for gaming. Iām a survivor of the great Nintendo 64 gaming famine. I donāt need that kind of stress again. But I also donāt have a great Windows gaming machine these days and am not convinced I could do any modern gaming with a partition on my newish Air.
I am simply happy that the list of big-budget Mac games I could get excited about grew by about 50% today, 33% if weāre counting StarCraft IIās expansion. The fact is that I prefer smaller, more indie computer games and that the computer games Iām most excited to play are things like The Witness and Antichamber (the latter of which is -gasp- coming to the Mac!).
Hey, the ānewā Deus Ex just came out for the Mac! It only took them eight months. 2010ās BioShock 2 just hit the Mac last month! What was I saying before? Mac gaming is in a renaissance!
Someone, please send me a message on iChat when Mac gaming isnāt dead. If I donāt reply immediately, thereās a slight chance that thatās because Iāll be busy playing a video game on my Mac. Yeah, right.
(Top image is not a real logo. We just doctored the cover of Game Informer.)
