“In June, Electronic Arts co-founder and chief creative officer Bing Gordon took the stage with Apple CEO Steve Jobs during the Worldwide Developers conference (WWDC), announcing that the game maker was moving staff members over to the Mac platform to once again release gaming titles for Mac OS X,” MacNN reports.
“Gordon promised that the first titles to ship for Macs would include Command & Conquer 3, Battlefield 2142, Need for Speed Carbon, and Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, and that those titles would ship in July. It’s now more than a week into August, and none of the promised titles have arrived, nor has Electronic Arts made any announcements on the subject,” MacNN reports.
Full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: EA currently remains mum on the situation. Our attempts to find out fro EA have gone unanswered just like MacNN’s. So, what’s the deal?
Apple’s Website has feature on EA Games returning to the Mac in which all of the games are listed as “coming soon.”
More info from Apple on games for the Mac and iPod can be found here.
First!!!
Maybe it’s a Leopard thing.
EA just wanted to KA at the WWDC to get their hands on Leopard.
Perhaps they ran into some dev issues, or perhaps they are just testing thoroughly to make sure that the games are perfect. If they are really going to release them, I’d prefer them to be done well rather than shipped half-assed.
More interestingly:
Do we care?..
Stifled I hope.
haha. Gaming on the Mac. Maybe if the Mac Pro didn’t cost $million with a $50 video card someone would play games on a Mac.
But since we’re stuck with iMacs with integrated graphics who cares about games? Not many.
I care. I’d love it!
no its because that transgaming engine sucks
To raskol AKA me: Give your keys to your mom and DO NOT drive.
Only 1000 copies of each game will sell anyway. So what’s the point? Apple is guaranteeing with each successive product launch that gaming is not important except on a $3000 computer. By putting last gen graphics in a non-upgradeable computer you’re dooming you customers to irrelevancy.
HA….!!!! Macs are not for games. Macs are for guys that they want to do their work without problems. Go windows to play games!!
@ NSFY: Hope you like your market-share ceiling. You’ll be hitting it soon. Are you listening to all the people who are still using G4 towers? Reason to upgrade before iLife ’08: very little. Oh darn, iLife ’08 doesn’t support G4’s. Guess I need a new computer.
hehe, and by the time 2142 comes out on the Mac no one will be playing it. So you’ll have 8 people at a time to play with… Just kidding, but seriously, Need For Speed Pro Street will be out by the time NFS Carbon is released on the Mac. So… uh… look it’s pointless. The big Steve says it’s an all-in-one low-end GPU world. So suck it!
At raskol:
Before you vent, do your research. Even my old G5 iMac doesn’t have integrated graphics.
The Intel Macs do much better than that.
But even my Macbook (which does have integrated graphics) can do the Vista Aero Aqua rip-off, which a slew of PCs can’t.
@ midwest, by integrated I mean not upgradeable. Boy, and I mean boy, I’ll wipe the floor with you if you’d like to compare research. You’re iMac G5 has what? and ATI 9600?
http://www.everymac.com/systems/apple/imac/index-imac.html
You think I’m not an Apple user?
You want to see you current HOT CPU options?
http://www.hothardware.com/articles/ATI_Radeon_HD_2600_and_2400_Performance/?page=4
Apple fanboys always compare Macs to off the shelf HP/Compaq junk. NOBODY uses those PCs to do any serious gaming. Those are computers for suckers. Power-users build their own PCs.
I have a market share ceiling?
“dooming you customers”
“hehe”
“So suck it!”
Are you nine?
Sorry, I meant GPU options.
And I don’t mean I know more than anybody else. Just that you guys all think anyone who brings a bit of reality to the Apple camp is a hater and a troll. I assure you, I’ve been a Mac user/evangelist for a long time. But Apple is milking you guys for all your worth.
NSFY, no I’m at work and trying to type fast and do 2 things at one time. So suck it is supposed to be funny. Oh wait only Fake Steve Jobs can be crude and funny at the same time. Sorry, I forgot I’m dealing with Apple Fanbois with no sense of humor.
Actually, raskol, I don’t care much about hardcore gaming and I probably should have skipped the story. Your “sense of humor” sounded more like a troll. I never thought FSJ was funny either. For what it’s worth, I use my (Intel based) Macs to make money and I have a PS2 if get the urge to blow something up. Peace.
raskol,
‘Integrated’ means the graphics are in the chipset such as in the MacBook or MacMini. The iMacs do not have integrated graphics. If this simple terminology is too complex for you, why don’t you just keep your ignorance to yourself.
@raskol AKA me
haha. Gaming on the Mac. Maybe if the Mac Pro didn’t cost $million with a $50 video card someone would play games on a Mac.
But since we’re stuck with iMacs with integrated graphics who cares about games? Not many.
You’ll have to tell me where the million dollar Mac Pros are because I have never seen one. Does it have a “gold package”?
You’re right that there are better options for gaming on the Windows side, but since I have a real job and a family, I don’t have time to fool with games. I just need a computer to work, and that is what the overwhelming majority of people want.
If I decide to devote any time to games, I’ll buy a Wii or a Playstation or just play what’s available on the Mac.
Raskol,
You’re an idiot or a troll or both. the new iMacs actually come with the new ATI Radeon HD 2000 series graphics cards. they come as either 2400 XT or 2600 Pro. They render video at 1080p natively and have support for directX 10. The cards also come with HDMI out but that is mysteriously missing from the iMac casing.
Steve Jobs already explained why Apple is not interested in games. Most all are about killing and only appeal to sick puppies with sociopathic tendencies. How many Columbines and Virginia Techs will it take for people to wake up to what violent games do to kids?
EA did have some cool games for Commodore 64, like M.U.L.E. (outer space monopoly) and Seven Cities of Gold (European explorers in the New World). I wish they’d bring those back.
“EA did have some cool games for Commodore 64, like M.U.L.E. (outer space monopoly) and Seven Cities of Gold (European explorers in the New World). I wish they’d bring those back.”
Archon – http://archive.gamespy.com/halloffame/september01/archon/
Raskol, you sound like an idiot.
No seriously you do.