Aspyr Media, Inc. has announced the development of a new game application, The Gamerhood, that will allow a user to purchase and download a game directly to their Macintosh using a standard Internet connection. A wide range of Mac games, from very casual titles to some of Aspyr’s AAA titles, will be made available through The Gamerhood.
Over the next few months, Aspyr will release more specific information on The Gamerhood’s capabilities and a list of titles, which will be immediately available upon the application’s launch. A broad range of features already being implemented in The Gamerhood are listed below.
Aspyr’s The Gamerhood features:
• Purchase games and download them online
• Play games without physical CD/DVD media
• Check user compatibility by comparing machine’s hardware against a game’s minimum system requirements before purchase
• Alert users to current Aspyr projects and new games
• Allow users to register games online
• Alert users to game updates and provide installs for updates
• Provide a user-friendly interface and convenient way to organize personal gaming catalogue
• Allow parents to restrict game play and online game store material based on ESRB ratings
• Provide users opportunity to take advantage of special offers
Downloading The Gamerhood will be free to all Mac users. More details about The Gamerhood will be forthcoming from Aspyr nearer the Fall 2006 launch date.
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(MDN: Aspyr is misspelled in the headline.)
Playin’ in da hood!
I guess I have a reason to finally get some sort of broadband service now. Sigh, goodbye cheap, reliable 56K… Oh well, at least I won’t have to get a modem dongle for my new MB.
People still use dial up?
What’s dial up? Is it related to these things called albums or records?
a reason:
and how would you ever call dial up reliable ??
Cable is the way to go.
Kewl, but couldn’t they come up with a better name than “The Gamerhood”? Sheesh!!!
Cable is the way to go.
Tell me about it, it also costs plenty.
Thank God! Now I’ll be able to buy any game I want from Aspyr, because these suckers don’t distribute Mac games in Brazil. Just PC games. And I have to download them from torrent.
Now I can buy them and download. Awesome.
Title still misspelled: Aspyr, not Apsyr!
What’s dial up? Is it related to these things called albums or records?
“albums” is not a obsolete term as it refers to a collection and not the physical medium that collection is delivered on
Tell me about it, it (cable) also costs plenty.
It’s cheaper than when I had dial-up and had to pay for a separate phone line. Besides, shouldn’t something thats 100x better cost more?