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Warhammer Online hits the Mac, beta client available photo

In the middle of our rousing office-wide almost daily Macintosh versus PC debate, we received the following information: Mythic Entertainment’s Warhammer Online was ported to the Macintosh platform. It’s like the gods knew we were buzzing about the new Macbook Pros.

Starting now, both grizzled and new players can download a Mac-specific beta client for the low, low price of free from WAR’s official Web site. Anyone willing to leap platforms will receive “an exclusive title and trophy award.” Consider that icing on the superior-platform-cake. Zing!

The Macintosh version of WAR -- made possible by TransGaming‘s Cider Portability Engine -- is slated for official release in the fall. We’re currently downloading the latest patches and such on our full beta version, but we’ll get you a report of how WAR is running on the Macintosh in the near future. 








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Spotlight51's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/30/2009 15:12
Spotlight51
Warhammer Online was so awesome, i wish i didnt die
VitaminH's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/30/2009 15:19
VitaminH
Before anyone with an older PowerPC Mac (like me) gets excited and clicks on that link above, you should probably know that the client is only for Intel-based macs.

*sob*

WHYYYYY?
Tubatic's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/30/2009 15:32
Tubatic
I knows what you mean, vitaminh. I can still run WoW (albeit officially unsupported and disavowed at this point), but all thsi other fancy porting stuff (or "porting" depending on how you look at it) is totally inaccessible to a machine from 5/6 years ago.

Maybe I should get a new Mac instead of enjoying consoles so much. enh. :)
bunnymud's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/30/2009 15:50
bunnymud
WAR is old and busted


Aion is the new hotness
thisissami's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/30/2009 15:51
thisissami
wooooo macs!
JLanphear's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/30/2009 15:56
JLanphear
YAY! Another MMO for my Mac. :D
Br0th3rGr1mm's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/30/2009 16:31
Br0th3rGr1mm
So that makes nearly a dozen games released within the last 5 years ported over to the MAC....guess that website you were designing for your cat will just have to wait...
aaronf's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/30/2009 20:01
aaronf
Native port or I don't care.
Floodland's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/30/2009 22:27
Floodland
Here's hoping this helps the frankly burgeoning WAR subscriber base.
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