StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty

From Destroid:
If you haven\’t heard already, StarCraft II will drop on July 27th of this year. That\’s for many places, including the United States, Canada, Europe, South Korea, Australia, New Zealand, Russia, Mexico, Singapore, Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, the Philippines, and the regions of Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Macau. Yes, Macau gamers, get ready. It hits stores on the 27th, and will be available direct from Blizzard soon after.

(View the rest of the article at StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty dated July 27, 2010)

Mark Bernstein: Platform Control

Mark Bernstein is exactly right here. This is a matter of Apple being able to control their own destiny, and not being blackmailed by other companies…

John Gruber’s recent analysis of Apple’s policy is, I think, almost exactly correct. He is right to pinpoint PowerPlant/Metrowerks as a source of Apple’s anxiety. (Tinderbox is still struggling with that one.) Java was another bad memory for Apple. An even worse memory, I think, is OpenDoc – the platform on which Apple bet the company, and lost.

But Gruber forgets the emotional memory behind all of this.

In 1997, Apple was on the ropes. Every trade press story speculated that Apple would soon go out of business. Apple’s computers were toys, hapless, hopeless. The only hope seemed to be that Microsoft’s antitrust problems would extend the struggling company’s life a year or two and something might turn up.

(See the Rest of the Story at Mark Bernstein: Platform Control.)

First look at Steam for Mac

I\’m sooo envious…. The Macgamer.com has gotten a steam mac beta key…

Ooo, just look at that lovely icon! Fancy a peek at the other sexy bits for Steam for Mac?

Just a few minutes ago I received an email with details on how to access the Steam for Mac beta. Being a slave to the Combine, I followed.

Currently Portal is the only title available to play, but Team Fortress 2 will be available later in the week. My pathetic MacBook won’t run anything that even smells of a game, so I won’t bother trying to load Portal. Instead, here’s a peek at the visuals, the sexy bits, of Steam for Mac.

(See the Rest of the Story at First look at Steam for Mac.)