Mac Gaming News

• With the new iPad 3 slated to come out on March 16th, the features it boasts raises a few new gaming possibilities.
• For those of you real excited about cross platform play in Counter-Strike GO. You’re in for a bit of a disappointment because it has been removed.
• Another win for Apple as iOS can run HTML5 games 3 times faster than Android!
• Inside Mac Games reviews Airport Madness 4. Check it out if you’re interested in getting the game.
• Electronic Arts fumbles again as they pull their new Simpsons game, The Simpsons: Tapped Out. The reason? It was too popular and overloaded their servers.
• An article from the future! Not, really but a speculative article of how the iPhone 5 might stack up against the Galaxy S3 for gaming.

Apple News

• CNN’s review of the New iPad. According to those guys it’s a ‘meh’ device. Neither a dud or a revolutionary product.
• A close up look at the new iPad in slideshow format!
• Netflix expands it’s Apple TV alliance with an iTunes billing partnership. Basically you can sign up for Netflix directly and pay through your iTunes account.
• Earlier this week during the Apple keynote, Apple finally reveals the new iPad!
• The Mac App Store has hit a new milestone as it crosses the 25 billion download mark.
• Apple wins the right to Android development details in a patent lawsuit. That’s like being able to look at your enemy’s battle plan before you duke it out.
• Apple and Google are to meet with Senator Charles E. Schumer to discuss the privacy loopholes on smartphones that apparently give them unfettered acces to people’s personal data.
• In the heat of legal battles over the iPad trademark, Proview is discovered to be facing a possible liquidation. Wonder if that’s the reason they are pursing this lawsuit so aggressively?
• According to Apple, they’ve created 514,000 domestic jobs.

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Mac Gaming News

Have you ever gone abroad, purchased a DVD, and returned to only find that the regional code was wrong for your player? Similarly, video games made for France are different from games made for Japan or those made for the United States. But for games, the issue is not as easy to explain as a regional code.

Of North American sales, the US takes 85% of the video game market. However, according to Ernest Adams, a writer for Gamasutra, the best way for a game to become a blockbuster is to become an international hit. Big manufacturers and publishers are multinational; think EA (United States), Nintendo (Japan), and Ubisoft (France). But crossing the border takes a lot more than just translating the original text and voice-overs into the receiving country’s native language.

Let’s start with the more technical stuff first, and then we’ll see what sort of cultural trouble game manufacturers need to worry about.

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