“The Deadliest Tournament in the Universe Comes to the Mac.”
Says the Destineer website for Unreal Tournament III for Mac, dated 18th December 2007.
Where the hell is it then? UT3 was released for PC back in November 2007. That was 28 months ago! In that time we’ve had BioShock, an Unreal 2.5 powered title ported to the Mac by Feral. Can porting UT3 for Mac be that hard? If it is, someone should say something, anything. Squeak at us. Run past my house and whisper it, I’ll hear it and post it here!
All Destineer tell me is that UT3 for Mac is still in development. Enough already: UT3 for Mac is dead. It’s not being released. It’s vapourware.
Look at this guy:
He takes the category of “techno-lumberjack” to a whole new level. His homeless appearance aside, this is Peter Jackson and he makes movies. None of that teenage wizard stuff, oh no, he does man aged wizard stuff. Putting aside the fact that he has created some of the greatest movies of our time, I think doing what he does would be pretty cool. I like the idea of movie making. From conception and script to editing and printing, the whole process is really cool. The bonus is that at the end of it all you have hopefully made some real swank art.
Continue reading ‘The Movies: Superstar Edition for Mac’
My good Norwegian friend Kristian loves two things in life: Spartans and cats. It seems that today, the 19th of January 2010 AD, the crazy cats at Feral have blessed him and us as they’ve announced Rome: Total War Gold Edition for Mac. Spartans! Made by cats!
Continue reading ‘Feral announces Rome: Total War’
A Continuance on Tension and How I Can Translate It to What I Know (Which Isn’t Much)
With fear of simplifying too much, I say that a story’s fuel resides in the pull of opposing forces, whatever size they be.
Continue reading ‘BioShock, part two: Tension, the Hero, and the Writer’s Contract with His Consumer’
What first caught my interest are the polarities in BioShock: stasis versus progression, perpetual celebration versus a pragmatic need for rescue, permanence versus the possibility of permanence.
Continue reading ‘BioShock, part one: Tension is Abound!’
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