If you missed out on last year’s biggest games Mac games, now is the time to grab them. GameAgent is giving you the chance to snag Civilization IV Complete, Civilization V GOTY and all of the Civilization V DLCs, Neverwinter Nights 2, Doom 3, or Duke Nukem Forever for 20% off! Start off 2012 right by playing the best 2011 had to offer!
These deals are good through Tuesday (11:59PM), February 6th.
We’re getting a little experimental at the GameAgent Store this weekend with some heavy ties to an on-going Facebook poll. The question at hand? Choose the game you want to see discounted the most!
You can go vote on your favorite over at our Facebook page (or by clicking here). We’ll check the poll results periodically throughout the weekend and adjust the discounts according to what percentage of votes each game has!
Example: At the time of this writing, Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare has 39% of the vote, so it is enjoying a 39% discount!
The discount will end at 11:59pm (CST) on Sunday, September 25. Act now by voting your game up to enjoy the greatest discount and tell your friends!
Hey, Civ Fanatics, great news–Civilization IV, one of the greatest Civilization games of all time, is now available on the Mac App Store! The game comes fully-featured so you can enjoy the full Civ IV experience. Hit the jump to get a full rundown of the game description and features!
Just because Civilization V is all the rage these days (and now available on the Mac App Store *hint hint*), that doesn’t mean we’ve forgotten about the games that came before it. No, we want to celebrate the Civilization heritage, and that’s why we’re offering a great bundle deal on the Civilization IV expansions plus an awesome discount on the standalone Civilization IV title, Colonization!
These deals are good only by following the provided URL and run through the end of the day Sunday, June 19.
Remember, these deals are only activated by following one of the above URLs, and they’re only good for a limited time. Get your expansion today!
Today Amazon launched a brand new Mac Download Store, “a one-stop shop where customers can get the most popular games andsoftware products for Mac like Call of Duty and Microsoft Office on the site.”
Included in Amazon’s selection of downloadable Mac software are a handful of Aspyr games, such as:
Amazon’s also offering a collection of other Mac titles from various publishers and is even offering a FREE download of Airport Mania to all customers through the first week of the download store’s opening. Also being offered during the first week? The chance to save $5 with the coupon code SAVE5MAC.
You can check out the full store here (or here just for games). We’ll be adding new titles to the store in the future, so keep up with us on the blog or via Facebook and Twitter to stay in the know! Find Amazon’s announcement after the jump.
BIG, HUGE, MEGA thanks to everyone that helped us build our social empire over the weekend! After it was all said and done, the GameAgent Store picked up 638 new followers across both Facebook and Twitter, and we couldn’t be more happy to have you! In the process, we featured a variety of our epic #FLASHSALES, gave away Civ V DLC (including the brand new Polynesia Civilization and Scenario Pack!), offered help to Civilization addicts in the form of Civ Anonymous t-shirts, and handed out multiple coupon codes good for 50% off any game available at GameAgent.com. In short, it was a busy weekend!
However, with our new followers in tow, it’s time for the coup de grace: the Civilization IV (Mac) discount! We’re discounting Civilization IV (Mac) by 40% until 9:00am CST, Tuesday, April 26. Just follow any of the Civ IV links from this post, or use the URLs we’ve posted in our GameAgent social streams, to get the deal.
As an added bonus, we’re also offering a 10% discount on the Civilization IV expansion packs, Warlords and Beyond the Sword, when you purchase a new copy of Civ IV!
Thanks again to EVERYBODY, and enjoy the Civ IV discount!
We admit it–all of the hours we’ve poured into the Civilization series have given some us emperor’s complexes the likes of which have probably never been seen. The thing is, we kind of like it. And we don’t want it to stop. That’s why we’re focusing on building our own social empire with the Civilization IV Social Media Empire Promotion! The goal? To rack up as many Facebook Likes and Twitter followers as possible for the GameAgent Store between now and 11:59pm CST this coming Sunday, April 24. We’ll be looking at both the GameAgent Store Facebook and Twitter pages and combining the new follower counts. The official pre-promo follower counts are as follows:
For each milestone we hit, we’ll be discounting Civilization IV (Mac) for various amounts, all the way up to a deity-level 85%, for 24 hours starting 9:00am CST, Monday, April 25! Here’s the discount table:
If we reach our goal of 1000 new followers, you’ll able to get Civilization IV for only $2.99! Already have the game? Spread the word to your Mac buddies so they can get in on the savings. Plus, we’ll also be giving away prizes, such as Civ Anonymous swag and GameAgent coupons, all week to random retweeters and other followers who help us spread the word. Catch the details after the break below.
Remember, this is your chance to get one of the greatest strategy games of all time for cheap! But it’s up to you to help spread the word and ensure you get the best possible discount. So get to building, friends, and glory to the empire!
Smurf game complications, a video game grammy win, and a Smithsonian video game exhibit.
Please welcome Jonathan Cohen, a social media marketing intern here at Aspyr. “J5″ is an MBA graduate student at St. Edward’s University, specializing in Digital Media Management. Jonathan has an extensive film & television background, but moonlights as a gamer! His favorite games include FIFA 11, Pinball FX, God of War, and Call of Duty 4. We’re excited to have J5 with us, and here he pens a response to RBurger’s post of the same title on why Mac is losing the battle with PCs, and what Apple can do to fix the problem… Enjoy!
The Epic Battle
The Apple brand is universally associated with innovation, stylish design, and operating simplicity. With the success of the iPod, iPhone, and now the iPad, Apple has arguably become “THE” hardware manufacturer for mobile devices. However, when it comes to gaming, Macs don’t have such a positive reputation. The three main issues are: universality, performance, and scalability.
The reason gamers like to talk about OpenGL versus DirectX is because content IS king. Let’s face it, hardcore computer gamers shy away from Macs because there are more games available for PC, and only PC. This lack of universality forces Mac owners to run PC virtual machines and emulation software’s just to play incompatible games. As a result, the Mac uses more power, exhausts its resources for performance, and in the end the game is about as stable as Lindsay Lohan on a Saturday night.
Lindsay Lohan at her best
Gamers also believe that the Mac’s system performance is not up to par with its PC counterparts. Without getting into all kinds of nerdy technical specifications, while the Macbook Pro and Mac Pro tower have enough processing power for resource-heavy creative applications like Final Cut Pro and Pro Tools, they sputter and fart in comparison to a PC. Check out this Mac OS X versus Windows performance comparison for Half Life 2 on Anandtech.com. Gamers don’t want a Colecovision when they can own a Playstation 2 for less money. (It’s no secret these Macs are extremely expensive.) Gamers know that they can build a PC from the ground-up for less than it costs to buy a Mac mini.
This highlights the scalability issues of Macs. Its much more difficult to upgrade and personalize a Mac than it is a PC because of the Mac’s lack of flexibility. Ever try upgrading the hardware on an iMac? I’d rather rebuild the Death Star… Macs have more proprietary system components, and because gaming technologies are constantly advancing, gamers prefer the ease of updating their systems to maximize performance. And the circle of life continues…
hakuna matata!
So how can Apple change this negative perception of gaming on Macs? Last summer, Apple had some good fortune when Valve released a Mac compatible version of Steam. One of the most popular online gaming platforms in the world, Steam will build awareness to gamers that Macs “can” perform as gaming systems. It will also allow current Mac users to explore and expand their game libraries to include more titles than just your browser’s “Minesweeper” plug-in.
Mac owners can also explore video games through the newly released App Store. The App Store is similar to the iTunes Store, but it is located directly on the Mac operating system and allows Mac users to easily purchase Mac compatible games (ahem, like Aspyr’s Call of Duty 4, Civilization IV: Colonization, and the newly-released Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition!). You can make these purchases with one click of a button. After all, simplicity is Apple’s bread and butter (where it’s Microsoft’s ever-hard-to-find Nutella croissant).
The success of the iPhone and iPod as gaming devices can allow Apple to vertically integrate itself into the gaming industry as well. If Apple were to release a Mac gaming console or a new Mac computer, one that’s specialized for gaming with amazing graphic and sound components, it could gather a huge chunk of the gaming market share. This would establish Apple as an all-purpose industry player, much like Sony and Microsoft are today.
The bottom line is that the gaming industry would gladly accept Apple if it wished to penetrate the environment, however, whether Apple will dedicate itself to changing its gaming perception is up to them. Apple seems content with its current focus on mobile technologies, and because of this it may wish that the gaming industry comes to it.
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To put it simply, 2010 was awesome for us at Aspyr. We’ve already recounted some of the things that went down this past year, but we just want to make the celebration a little more… official!
That’s why we’re taking all of the games we launched in 2010 and making them a part of our latest promotion, aptly titled “The Games of 2010!” We’ve got six games on sale RIGHT NOW that you can grab at an awesome 20.10% discount! Which games, you ask? How about:
Each of these games will be on sale at the special 20.10% discount until 11:59pm CST, Sunday, January 16. If you missed any of these games the past year, now’s the time to act–don’t miss out on them again!
