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10 Rise of Nations
9 Myst V End of Ages
8 Doom 3
7 Tropico 2 Pirate Cove
6 Xplane 8.0
5 Lego Star Wars
4 Commandos Battle Pack
3 Star Wars Battlefront
2 The Sims 2
1 Tiger Woods PGA Tour 2005
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American McGee's Alice™ - MAC
This product is no longer available as an individual title. However, you can still be apart of this wicked adventure by purchasing our compilation pack, Leave the Lights On. For more information on this, Click Here
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Battlefield 1942: Secret Weapons of WWII™ - MAC
All-out war on the secret battlefields of World War II!
Control the most bizarre and lethal top-secret weapons of the Second World War. This expansion pack to Battlefield 1942™ brings experimental weapons out of the lab and into the field and introduces eight tough, new battle maps.
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Battlefield 1942™ Deluxe Edition - MAC
In the air...in the deep...ON THE BATTLEFIELD
Prepare to face the enemy, in the most intense and explosive first person team- based shooter yet! This explosive package includes Battlefield 1942™ and the expansion pack Road to Rome!
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BloodRayne™ - MAC
Set in the mid-1930's, BloodRayne is a supernatural
agent. An unholy union of human and vampire, Agent BloodRayne was trained by a secret governmental agency to hunt down and eliminate global evil forces. Now she must take on an occult faction of pre-Nazis and their army to prevent them from unleashing creatures of unfathomable terror onto the world.
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CSI: Crime Scene Investigation™ - MAC
Watch the Show. Live the Game.
A murdered woman…a slain police officer…a mysterious arson case. What do these crimes have in common? Enter the gritty world of CSI and search for the truth with Grissom, Catherine, and the entire Crime Scene Investigation team. Armed with high-powered forensic equipment and razor-sharp wits, delve deep into the mysteries of five baffling crime scenes to reveal the truth. Don't just watch the action. Live it!
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Call of Duty™ - MAC
In the war the changed the world, no one fought alone. Experience the cinematic intensity of World War II’s epic battles including D-Day, the Russian Charge at Stalingrad and the Battle for Berlin.
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Call of Duty™ Deluxe Edition - MAC
In war, no one fights alone. Call of Duty™ Deluxe Edition contains Call of Duty and its expansion pack, Call of Duty: United Offensive. Looking through the eyes of American, British and Russian soldiers, Call of Duty Deluxe thrusts players alongside their squadmates into authentic action across Fortress Europe's most historic battlefields.
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Call of Duty™: United Offensive™ - MAC
The War that changed the world rages on, with brand new campaigns, combat missions and more intense action than ever before. Be a member of the 101st Airborne. Shoot down German fighters aboard a B-17 bomber, and then play a role in the British invasion of Sicily. Finally, join your Russian comrades in the Battle of Kursk.
Expansion pack to the 2003 game of the year!
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Command & Conquer™ Generals - MAC
Command & Conquer™ Generals puts your trigger finger on the pulse of modern warfare. Prepare your forces, General…it’s time to engage in the next generation of real-time strategy.
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Command & Conquer™ Generals Zero Hour - MAC
Prepare to unleash the absolute latest in modern weapons technology against the world’s most powerful Generals in Command & Conquer™ Generals Zero Hour. In the next era of military strategy and might, you’ll need to command a more technologically advanced arsenal to defeat new, more powerful enemies. Even the most experienced C&C Generals veteran must learn new strategies and tactics to take full advantage of -- and learn to defend against -- the next generation of the world’s most lethal weapons.
Developed by i5works.
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Cro-Mag Rally - MAC
A prehistoric twist. Race from the deserts to Atlantis in various "Paleozoic classic" cars that would make Fred and Barney drool.
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Delta Force®:Black Hawk Down® - MAC
Delta Force®:Black Hawk Down® lets you experience missions similar to those encountered by the U.S. Special Operations Forces in Somalia, 1993. Starting with Operation Restore Hope, through Task Force Ranger, to the climactic battle of Mogadishu, Special Operations Forces got the job done.
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Doom 3™ - MAC
Science has unlocked the gates to the unknown, and now only one man stands between Hell and Earth. A sci-fi horror masterpiece, DOOM 3 is like nothing you've ever experienced. Dramatic storyline, pulse-pounding action, incredible graphics, and revolutionary technology combine to draw you into the the most frightening and gripping first person gaming experience ever created.
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Harry Potter™ Deluxe Edition - MAC
Hogwarts™ Term begins....
Be Harry Potter™ in Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, learning to master all things magical in a world filled with wizardry, fun, and danger. The adventure begins at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Also included in this Deluxe Edition is the Chamber of Secrets! Join Harry Potter and unlock the mystery at the heart of the Chamber of Secrets.
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Harry Potter™ and the Chamber of Secrets™ - MAC
Be Harry Potter and unlock the mystery at the heart of the Chamber of Secrets. With dire warnings from strange quarters and dark schemes afoot, Harry's second adventure will be every bit as magical and dangerous as his first. But this time the spells are more potent, the foes are more fearsome, and Harry's friends are more important than ever.
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Harry Potter™ and the Sorcerer's Stone™ - MAC
The adventure begins a at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Be Harry Potter in Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, learning to master all things magical in a world filled with wizardry, fun, and danger.
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Homeworld®2 - MAC
Homeworld 2 continues the epic struggle of the Hiigarans and their leader Karan S'jet. Many thought their hardships would end when they returned to Hiigara, yet fate has not been so kind to the Exiles. Now the Hiigarans face a new and bitter enemy, a renegade clan from the eastern fringes of the galaxy, who wield the power of the ancients. Homeworld 2 chronicles the valiant journey of the Mothership and its crew into the oldest regions of the galaxy to confront their new foe and discover the truth behind their exile.
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IPuppet Presents: Colin's Classic Cards - MAC
The ultimate card game experience! Enjoy Hearts, Spades, Euchre and Pitch in fun, challenging and intense single player or multiplayer action that is easy to use. Deal 'em up and enjoy iPuppet presents: Colin's Classic Cards easy to use interface, easily customizable gameplay, and unique online community.
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Indiana Jones® and the Emperor's Tomb™ - MAC
You're Indiana Jones, the most butt-kicking archaeologist the world has ever seen. It's 1935 and you must prevent a powerful Chinese artifact from falling into evil hands. You'll leap, swim, climb and punch your way through exotic locales in this globe-spanning adventure. It will take more than just your trusty whip and pistol to possess the mysterious “Heart of the Dragon.”
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Kelly Slater's Pro Surfer® - MAC
Experience an all-out adrenaline rush as youdrop down huge wave faces, pull into barreling tube rides and pull off hundreds of massive trick combinations and signature pro moves. Exotic real world locations and events including full beach environments with real landmarks and hazards lend authenticity to the game.
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LEGO® Star Wars™ - MAC
The all new LEGO® Star Wars™ video game lets you become a true Jedi Knight as you battle against the dark side of the Force through all the fun, action and adventure of Episodes I to III.
LEGO Star Wars lets you take control - are you ready?
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Lara Croft Tomb Raider™: The Angel of Darkness™ - MAC
The gaming world's most famous heroine returns as both hunter and hunted relying on her ingenuity, athleticism and a new edge to her personality. Lara must clear her name from a murder suspicion and clean up a most desperate situation. Traverse an intricately detailed world, from the back streets of Paris to the depths of Prague.
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Leave the Lights On Compilation - MAC
This scary compilation includes 3 of your favorite Macintosh games for the mature audience. With American McGee's Alice™, Clive Barker's Undying™, and BloodRayne™ all in one package, you may want to Leave the Lights On for these!
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MTX: Mototrax™ - MAC
The Ultimate Motocross Experience!
Get the jump out of the gate and grab the holeshot. Take the inside line as you battle for 1st placed against 7 other riders pushing your bike's power and handling to the limit! Launch into a gravity-defying inverted 360 before crossing the finish line to the roar of the crowd.
Think you've got what it takes?
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Medal of Honor Allied Assault™ Breakthrough - MAC
In Medal of Honor Allied Assault Breakthrough you take the role of Sergeant John Baker, a tough-as-nails infantryman in the 34th “Red Bull” Division. In the tradition of the Medal of Honor™ franchise, MOHAA Breakthrough puts you into the action with unparalleled combat realism.
So what are you waiting for, Baker? Get in there and give it your all!
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Medal of Honor Allied Assault™ Deluxe Edition - MAC
Set during the most trying years of the war, 1942-1945, this game that puts you in the thick of WWII as a Special Forces agent. Also included in this explosive combo is Medal of Honor Allied Assault™ Spearhead Expansion Pack, combining nine expansive single-player levels with over 12 new multiplayer maps with new locations, new weapons, and new soldiers. Prepare for your finest hour!
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Medal of Honor Allied Assault™ Spearhead Expansion Pack - MAC
Assume the role of Sgt. Jack Barnes as he endures the final months of World War II. The Medal of Honor Allied Assault Spearhead combines nine expansive single-player levels with over 12 new multiplayer maps and includes new locations, new weapons, and new soldiers.
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Medal of Honor Allied Assault™ War Chest - MAC
Battle through the entire Medal of Honor Allied Assault™ collection. From D-Day to Berlin, experience all-out WWII action and stunning historical accuracy in what has been widely acclaimed as the best first-person shooter game ever.
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Medal of Honor: Allied Assault™ - MAC
Set during the most trying years of the war, 1942-1945, Medal of Honor Allied Assault? is a single and multiplayer game, powered by the Quake® III engine, that puts you in the thick of WWII as a Special Forces agent sent to execute covert operations, search and rescue missions, and commando raids.
Prepare for your finest hour!
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NASCAR® Racing 2002 Season - MAC
Get behind the wheel of a 750 horsepower stock car and battle for the championship on real-life tracks. Get under the hood to fine-tune your car or just jump in and race against the best in Arcade Mode. Feel car vibrations, hear the roar of the engines, and sweat it out racing fender to fender at 180 miles per hour. The 2002 season has begun!
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Otto Matic™ - MAC
As a super cool sci-fi robot named Otto Matic, you must go from planet to planet battling exotic B sci-fi aliens and preventing the helpless humans from being abducted. Become the sci-fi super hero you always know you could!
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QUAKE 4™ - MAC
In a desperate war for Earth's survival against an unrelenting Alien enemy, the only way to defeat them is to become one of them.
Earth is under siege by the Strogg, a barbaric Alien race moving through the universe consuming, recycling and annihilating any civilization in their path. in a desperate attempt to survive, an armada of Earth's finest warriors is sent to take the battle to the Strogg home planet.
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Return to Castle Wolfenstein™ - MAC
The time is 1943. As Hitler conducts air and ground campaigns, his most notorious henchman, Heinrich Himmler, plans to turn the tides of war by using powers of the occult to resurrect an army of the undead. You are B.J. Blaskowitz, a bad-ass American secret operative sent behind enemy lines to stop Himmler's project in its tracks. It's just you against the Nazi war machine and the awesome power of evil.
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Rollercoaster® Tycoon 3 - MAC
Featuring incredible 3D graphics and the exclusive new Coaster Cam™, you can see your park from any angle and ride the coasters you build!
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Shrek 2™: The Game - MAC
Shrek faces the wildest, scariest adventures yet—thankfully he’s got friends to help him along the way. Many of the locations and characters in Shrek 2™ the video game are based on the movie, but there are a few surprises. New locations and characters join this action-adventure game. Shrek is a long way from his swamp but he’s not alone.
Being green has never been better.
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Sid Meier's Civilization® III: Complete - MAC
Now gaming fans can enjoy what Time Magazines calls the "Greatest Computer Strategy Game of All-Time" with Sid Meier's Civilization III: Complete™. Civilization III: Complete includes Civilization III plus the Play the World Multiplayer and Conquests expansion packs.
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SimCity™ 4 - MAC
The long-awaited 4th generation of the game SimCity™, SimCity™ 4, features new simulation and graphics engines, new regional game play and the new ability to track the lives of individual Sims as they go about their daily routine. SimCity 4 is the most realistic, powerful and personal SimCity experience ever.
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SimCity™ 4 Deluxe Edition - MAC
SimCity™ 4 Deluxe Edition includes the bestselling SimCity 4 and SimCity 4 Rush Hour Expansion Pack. Create the most massive region of cities ever, with a farming town, bedroom community, high-tech commercial center, and industrial backbone. Take complete control of your city's transportation system and solve U-Drive-It missions from fighting crime to tackling disasters. Watch your population skyrocket as you get your Sims on the go. Create the ultimate living, breathing megalopolis -- the most expansive compilation ever.
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SimCity™ 4 Rush Hour - MAC
Your City is on the move!
Take complete control of your city's transportation system including roads, rail, air, and waterways. Watch you approval rating skyrocket as you get your Sims on the go.
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Space Colony™ - MAC
You've built the perfect simulated life on earth. Now let's see how you do with the rest of the galaxy. Welcome to Space Colony,™ where your life depends on an unruly group of fellow space rejects. Between managing the resources of the colony and managing the various neuroses of your fellow colonists, you may feel the vastness of space closing in on you. Ahh, life beyond the stars. It's everyting the brochure said it would be!
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Spider-Man 2™ The Game - MAC
Two years after becoming Spider-Man®, you face your toughest enemy yet-the dangerous Doc Ock™. Now the city of New York is relying on you to save it from his reckless rampage.
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Spider-Man™ - MAC
He spins a web, swings across the sky and lands with a somersault onto the Daily Bugle building. Who is this masked hero? It's you!
You dont just play it....you live it.
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Spongebob Squarepants The Movie - MAC
There's trouble in Bikini Bottom! Someone has stolen King Neptune's crown and it appears as though Mr. Krabs is the culprit. Despite being passed over for a promotion by Mr. Krabs, SpongeBob and his faithful but dimwitted friend Patrick volunteer to make the perilous journey to Shell City (a place no one has ever returned from) to retrieve the crown and save Mr. Krabs' life. Join our heroes on an epic and comedic quest to unexplored territory and see SpongeBob and Patrick as you've never seen them before.
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SpyHunter® - MAC
NOSTRA corporation prepares to unleash havoc on the world, and only the SpyHunter can stop them. Strapped behind the wheel of the G-6155 Interceptor, you are the world's last chance! Utilizing an incredible arsenal of both offensive and defensive weapons, you must elude NOSTRA spies, henchmen and assassins at any cost if civilization is to be saved. Prepare to be hunted!
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Star Trek™: Elite Force™ II - MAC
Battle alien species in intense locales as they take on the role of Lieutenant Alexander Munroe, leader of the Hazard Team in Activision's Star Trek ™ Elite Force II. In this sequel to Star Trek Voyager™ Elite Force, gangs of horrifying creatures are attacking ships and colonies throughout the galaxy. As leader of the Starfleet's Hazard Team, players must lead the squad through strange new worlds to eliminate the alien's threat once and for all.
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Stubbs the Zombie™ in Rebel Without a Pulse™ - MAC
In Stubbs the Zombie, you play as Stubbs, an undead antihero who takes on a futuristic city using nothing but his own carcass and the weapons of his possessed enemies.
In death, Stubbs has finally achieved the success and power he never had in life - and he sees no reason to stop until all of Punchbowl, Pennyslvania is his. Of course, billionaire playboy industrialist Andrew Monday has other ideas. The tension mounts until the city explodes in a full-scale human vs. zombie war.
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The Lord of the Rings™; The Return of the King™ - MAC
Enter this epic adventure. Which path will you take, who's fate will you decide? The battle of Helm's Deep is over. The battle for Middle-earth™ is about to begin. Form your Fellowship, destroy the Ring of Power and restore peace to Middle-earth™
Live the Movie. Be the Hero.
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The Sims™ - MAC
There goes the neighborhood. For better or worse, the lives of your "Sims," simulated people, rests in your hands. Ready for the responsibility?
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The Sims™ 2 - MAC
It’s up to you to take your sims from the cradle to the grave, fulfill their dreams, and push them to extremes in The Sims™ 2. What will you make of their lives?
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The Sims™ 2 University - MAC
Your Sims are now young adults leaving home to live the ultimate college fantasy. Immerse them in college life as they become the Big Sim on Campus. They'll relish their new-found freedom as they party with friends, join fraternities and sororities and pull outrageous pranks. Your Sims will explore all the campus hot-spots as they frequent lounges, gyms, coffee houses and more
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The Sims™ Hot Date - MAC
Wine and dine or crash and burn! See how well you can play Don Juan with your Sims. With brand new characters to meet and date, over 40 new one-on-one interactions and over 125 new items, the stage is set for the ultimate romantic interlude! How you doin'?
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The Sims™ House Party - MAC
Make The Sims one big party! From luaus to raves, host parties that will drive the neighborhood crazy! Build the ultimate theme party with unique party items, party with cool new characters and mix and mingle your Sims in new group activities. Rock the house!
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The Sims™ Livin' Large Combo - MAC
Enjoy this awesome combo that includes The Sims and The Sims Livin' Large together! Create your Sims. Design their personalities, skills, and appearance. Control their lives and guide your Sim's relationships and careers. Personality and good looks give each Sim a unique appearance and lifestyle. Choose careers, make friends, fall in love, argue with the neighbors, or shoot hoops in the backyard.
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The Sims™ Makin' Magic - MAC
Add a little magic to your Sims' lives. Cast spells, hypnotize friends, and even turn a neighbor into a frog. But watch out, spells can go haywire if you're not careful. Either way, the neighborhood will never be the same.
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The Sims™ Party Pack - MAC
The Sims™ Party Pack includes The Sims™, The Sims™ Livin' Large, The Sims™ House Party, and The Sims™ Hot Date all in one convenient package. An entire world of Sims awaits your quirky command. It's your neighborhood, they're your Sims, and whether they prosper or perish is completely up to you!
Your possibilities are limitless.
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The Sims™ Superstar - MAC
Players can live their fantasies of fame and fortune, pursuing dreams of being a Rock Star, Movie Star, or Supermodel. Live like a celebrity, and mingle with the rich and famous. Being a celebrity has a downside too. While working hard for fame and popularity, perhaps even win a coveted Simmy award, Superstars will get the attention of obsessed fans, groupies and the paparazzi.
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The Sims™ Unleashed - MAC
As fans of The Sims know, there has always been something missing from their virtual neighborhoods... pets. Now, you can add furry friends to their Sims' families. With forty all-new expanded neighborhoods featuring parks, pet stores, cafes and markets the Sims and their new pets will have a variety of places to sniff, explore and meet their new neighbors. Are you ready?
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The Sims™ Vacation - MAC
Take the Sims on the vacation of a lifetime. Snowboards, beaches, babes and camp fires promise that a good time won't be the one that got away.
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Tiger Woods PGA TOUR® 2005 - MAC
Tiger Woods PGA TOUR® 2005 challenges you to take on the man who has changed golf forever - Tiger Woods. After making a name for yourself on the Tour, tee off against legends including Arnold Palmer, Jack Nicklaus and Ben Hogan to see how you stack up against the all-time greats.
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Tiger Woods PGA® Tour 2003 - MAC
Bring golf to life on the computer with a brand new course and PGA TOUR golfer lineup. Test every skill on eight pro courses, including the exclusive St Andrews Golf Links and Pebble Beach Golf Links™. Enhanced True Swing™ mouse swing delivers the most realistic feeling of swinging a golf club on the computer. Are you ready to become golf's most recognized golfer?
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Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six® 3: Raven Shield® - MAC
Command an elite, multinational squad of special operatives against a hidden terrorist foe. RAINBOW races against time to stop terror and unravel a mystery. In locations around the world, from London to the Caribbean to Rio de Janeiro, lead team RAINBOW in a desperate effort to battle a madman and foil his doomsday plot.
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Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell® - MAC
You have the right to spy, steal, destroy and assassinate, to ensure that American freedoms are protected. If captured, the U.S. government will disavow any knowledge of your existence.
You are Sam Fisher.
You are a Splinter Cell.
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Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six® 3: Athena Sword™ - MAC
Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six® 3: Athena Sword™ takes the elite, multinational squad of counter-terrorist operatives to the Mediterranean. Your mission is to command Team Rainbow while tracking the desperate remnants of the international terror network from Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six® 3: Raven Shield ™ into exotic regions of the world. Prevent their mad agenda of international anarchy and devastation.
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Tomb Raider® Chronicles - MAC
Memories of Lara's mysterious past provide new adventures in unique locations. Attain four artifacts using cool moves and awesome weapons. A bonus level editor is provided for you to create your own new adventures!
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Tomb Raider®: The Last Revelation - MAC
She's back and kicking butt. Lara Croft heads to the ancient ruins in Egypt where she unwittingly releases the evil god Set. In a race against time, Lara must use her wit and skill to reimprison Set and save the world from Armageddon.
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Tony Hawk's Pro Skater™ 2 - MAC
The ultimate extreme sport experience, with a hip hop and punk soundtrack, skate as Tony Hawk, one of 12 other pros or create your own pro. Single and Multi-Player modes included. Skate or Die!
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Tony Hawk's Pro Skater™3 - MAC
Tony Hawk, the legend of skateboarding, brings you into his world yet again with even more cement shredding action than ever before! Go high flying through some of the coolest skateparks in the world. Pull insane tricks and bails, but beware of the pedestrians and cars along the streets. You may not be able to live like the legend, but now you can skate like him!
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Tony Hawk's Pro Skater® 4 - MAC
Drop into the ultimate skating challenge with Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 4. Players take on the role of legendary skateboarder Tony Hawk and 13 other athletes as they skate through enormous free roaming levels, choose from 190 progressively harder goals and build their skills to perform 14 of the greatest skateboarding stunts of all time.
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True Crime™: Streets of LA™ - MAC
The streets of Los Angeles are being terrorized by vicious gangs and it's going to take a renegade ex-cop like you to clean them up. Drive, fight and shoot your way through 420 square miles of recreated LA.
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Wakeboarding Unleashed™ Featuring Shaun Murray - MAC
HANG ON FOR YOUR LIFE! Rip across a lake behind a screaming speedboat, tricking through dangerous terrain with only a sliver of wakeboard between you and the blistering water below. Catch mind-blowing air in 9 exotic locations around the world-from Lake Powell to Hong Kong Harbor.
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X2 Wolverine's™ Revenge - MAC
As Wolverine™-the X-men's™ most dangerous weapon-you've discovered you were also implanted with a deadly virus that will kill you within the next 48 hours unless the antidote is found. Your future is at risk, you must return to confront your past at the sinister Weapon X™ facility. Time is running out. And so is your life.
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Zoo Tycoon™ - MAC
In Zoo Tycoon™, you'll be challenged to build the most healthy and vibrant zoo possible. Build, manage, and maintain a zoo with over 200 animals, exhibits, and zoo materials. Plan wisely, because your success depends on your ability to keep the animals happy!
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Zoo Tycoon™ Complete Collection - MAC
Zoo Tycoon - enjoy the fun and challenge of building and managing the ultimate zoo. And, with Zoo Tycoon™: Marine Mania™ and Zoo Tycoon™: Dinosaur Digs™, add an array of marine animals and more than 20 prehistoric beasts to create and maintain an exotic world of animals in your own zoo.
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Zoo Tycoon™: Marine Mania™ Expansion Pack - MAC
You'll make a huge splash by adding killer whales, manta rays, and other exciting marine animals to your existing zoo. Have a whale of a time as you combine land, marine, and prehistoric animals to build the wildest, most exciting zoo ever! Also includes the Zoo Tycoon™: Dinosaur Digs expansion pack!
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oo7™ Nightfire™ - MAC
NightFire™ features an original single player storyline borrowing from the 007 legacy that spans 40 years. As Bond, players operate in the snow capped Austrian Alps and outer space as well as underwater in the depths of the South Pacific to defeat the evil criminal mastermind Rafael Drake who is secretly bent on world domination.
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Based in Texas in the US.
Since 1996, Aspyr has brought exciting adventures, mysteries, marvels — and above all big fun — to enthusiastic audiences around the world.
With a name that represents the company’s desire to build something great, to aim high, and to always drive toward the next challenge with total confidence, Aspyr has set itself apart as the world leader in Mac game publishing (owning 60 percent of the Mac entertainment market: NPDFunworld, June 2003). Now in it’s 7th year, the company is fast taking its place as a premier entertainment publisher, with PC games, Game Boy Advance, independent films, and music all joining the Aspyr line up this year.
Aspyr is committed to selecting high quality entertainment products, and extending valued brands to audiences. Aspyr has worked closely with partners like Universal, Paramount, Warner Bros, LucasArts, Electronic Arts, Activision and Eidos, to bring brands like Harry Potter, The Sims, Madden NFL Football, Star Wars, Tony Hawk and Tomb Raider to Macintosh platform, expanding each products’ worldwide consumer base by more than 20 million.
Aspyr Media has grown beyond Mac gaming, with three DVD film releases — The Journey, Live From Shiva’s Dance Floor, and Growing A Beard, an expanding list of PC and Game Boy Advance titles and five music CDs by two great bands, Knife In The Water and Milton Mapes.
Aspyr is committed to bringing the highest quality entertainment products to consumers. Aspyr is driven to create package and deliver big entertainment, big value, big service, and most of all big fun to consumers everywhere.
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Their first task was to decide how to prioritize titles for the conversion to universal binaries. Aspyr's products include many of the most popular in the Mac game market, and their large library of games—each with its own, often fanatical, user base—has been built over several years of Mac software and hardware releases. There was a lot they needed to consider in prioritizing and creating their transition plan.
Aspyr has always understood the benefits of keeping up with Apple's ongoing hardware and software improvements, so their response to the move to Intel-based Macintosh computers and universal binaries wasn't surprising.
As Director of Development Glenda Adams explains, “We have to be able to ship games in 2006 and beyond as universal binaries. We need to update some older games to run natively on Intel, so switching to Xcode, making the effort to build universal binaries, and then testing on both platforms is vital.”
With their commitment to the platform and clear understanding of the technologies, Adams and her developers began setting their transition priorities. They looked at a variety of criteria: the resources they had available, the revenue they forecast from the sales of each title, and finally, the time required to update each title. Another key factor was the release date of the game. The newest games were generally the highest priority, and there were some older games that could clearly be assigned a lower priority. The games in the "in-between" category were the hardest to prioritize. These they examined on a game-by-game basis, and prioritized by looking at each product's details.
Creating the First Universal Binaries
In general, it was the most recently released games that Aspyr has focused on first. These are not only among the most important to Aspyr as products, they also tend to require tremendous processor and system resources. These games had to be transitioned to universal binaries as soon as possible in order to be playable at top speed on Intel-based as well as on PowerPC-based Macintosh computers. The Aspyr team got a few of the Intel-based Macintosh computers from the Apple Developer Connection and set to work.
Some of the older games (more than two years or so) were created in the era of slower processors, and are less processor and resource intensive. The decisions about moving these to universal binaries could be deferred, since they should function reasonably well under the Rosetta translator. But Aspyr knew that only thorough testing will tell for sure, so the priority task for these older games is to test how well they run on an Intel-based Macintosh using Rosetta.
For the "in-between" category—games that are six months to two years old—Aspyr decided to focus first on the key titles. They looked at which games show the most promise in terms of sales, and considered factors like the game engine used, ease of porting (does the game use old Code Fragment Manager libraries, for example), customer support requirements, and continuity of the series (if any). Sometimes the transition path was clear and easy.
“We currently have Doom 3, The Sims 2, Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic, and Jedi Academy compiling under Xcode and GCC,” says Adams. “Doom 3 started its life under Xcode on the Mac, so that was fairly straightforward to move to GCC 4.0, although we did have to deal with template class issues.”
For games that are still selling sequels like The Sims, it makes sense to start work right away on developing the universal binaries, even for the older titles in the series.
“We chose to start with The Sims 2 to move over simply because it is our best selling game,” says Adams, “and one we really wanted to move to a universal binary as quickly as possible.”
For the other in-between titles, it depended on a number of factors, and each seemed to be somewhat unique.
For example, Glenda says, “Knights of the Old Republic had already had some initial work done moving to Xcode before the Intel announcement, so it was a natural to move all the way over. ”
For other games, the Quake 3 engine made the move to Xcode 2 and GCC 4.0 an obvious decision.
As Adams explains, “Jedi Academy we chose because it was a Quake 3 engine based game, We have several Quake 3-based games that have shipped over the past couple years, so moving that engine to Xcode and GCC 4.0 gives us a better chance at supporting Intel-based Macs with other Quake 3-based games.”
The Power of Xcode and Distributed Builds
For Aspyr, moving to Xcode was already a work in progress. In some cases, Aspyr's games were already building in Xcode before Apple's announcement. In others, the games still used some other build environment. Either way, the path to universal binaries clearly goes through Xcode.
So far, the transition to Xcode has gone smoothly and Glenda says that they are particularly excited about one of Xcode's more advanced capabilities: distributed builds.
According to Adams, “In some early tests with Doom 3, we've been able to shorten compile times for major recompiles significantly.”
Moving to GCC 4.0
The switch to GCC 4.0 has been a bit more of a challenge than the move to Xcode. Fortunately, the changes required have been relatively minor. For example, GCC 4.0 is more strict about C/C++ standards than the earlier version of the compiler (GCC 3.3), especially where C++ templates are concerned. In GCC 3.3, a method 'bar()' of a template child class could call their parent template's methods directly. For example, under GCC 3.3 a child function could call a parent's method 'foo' via a simple 'foo();' call. However, with GCC 4.0, that same call must explicitly specify the object, by calling 'this->foo();'.
Glenda comments that, “While this is a simple code change, when you have a large codebase with hundreds or even thousands of classes, it can mean a lot of one-line changes throughout the source.”
But moving to GCC 4.0 has brought many positive changes, and it has even identified at least one problem in the code that other compilers overlooked: void functions returning values. While this isn't something that you would do on purpose, in large code bases with many warnings it is easy to overlook such minor problems (often functions returning zero instead of nothing). GCC 3.3 would simply issue a warning but in GCC 4.0 such code generates an error that must be fixed. This means more solid code and fewer bugs in a shipping product.
Building Universal Binaries
Once a game is building in Xcode with GCC 4.0, it is time to “flip the switch” and build a universal binary. Since Aspyr primarily deals with games that were originally written for the Intel processor architecture, they had added a lot of byte-swapping code to handle the byte order differences with the PowerPC architecture. With the transition, those byte-swapping routines need to be pulled out of the code or surrounded with conditional compilation directives so that they only activate on PowerPC machines. For some of the games, the change was isolated to a single set of functions or macros. In others, Aspyr's engineers found multiple copies and different implementations of the byte-swapping code that needed to be updated.
In addition to the explicit byte-swapping code required by the Intel to PowerPC conversions, many OpenGL-based games rely on Apple-specific extensions that automatically byte-swap texture data in the video card and its driver.
According to Glenda, “it took a few tweaks to the rendering code to stop having everything drawn in red!” This is in reference to a frequent problem with byte-swapping errors in OpenGL texture handling code, where colors display incorrectly.
Some Background on Aspyr
Aspyr is the leading Mac game publisher and they are responsible for bringing some of the most popular games to the platform, including The Sims series, Call of Duty, Tiger Woods PGA Tour Golf 2005, Doom 3, and many others. The company is well known for providing tremendous support for their titles through frequent updates. Aspyr even releases occasional updates for older games, much to the delight of diehard fans, just because they can—and because their fans are grateful.
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| THE FREEWARE & SHAREWARE SCHEME
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| + By Brad Cook
One area of the game business bucks the “epic scope” trend by offering smaller, lower budget titles that are nonetheless just as engaging as their larger brothers. The companies in this industry segment, often called “shareware,” usual offer casual fun that’s just as engaging, crafted by the mantra “keep it simple.”
The Best Downloadable Games
A comprehensive list of all Mac shareware games would go on for pages, and we probably still wouldn’t cover every title in existence. Instead, here’s a list of the best ones.
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A Certain Point of View
Of course, not everyone in the shareware Mac games business agrees what the term “shareware” means, nor do all of them even consider themselves shareware producers.
“I’ve never thought of our stuff as shareware,” says Joe Williams, president of Delta Tao Software, the makers of games that run the gamut from Eric’s Ultimate Solitaire to the massively multiplayer RPG Clan Lord. “I guess, though, when one combines a downloadable demo with online serial number purchase and registration, it gets pretty close.
“Sure, you can buy our stuff with the CD and packaging, but almost nobody does anymore.”
Shareware veteran Colin Lynch Smith, vice-president of Freeverse Software, known for Burning Monkey Solitaire and its series of 3D card games, also says that his customers increasingly don’t care about getting their games on CDs. “They’re asking us to hold onto the CD and just tell them where they can download the whole 200MB game,” he says.
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Burning Monkey Solitaire 3. Funky monkeys keep the game fun.
ThinkTanks. Intelligent, combat-esque warfare on your desktop.
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He also notes that the term “shareware” “definitely has some negative connotations. Because the barrier to entry in the shareware market is so low, there is a lot of unfinished or just plain crappy stuff floating around the download sites, which has tarred everybody.
“’Shareware’ equals ‘unprofessional,’ so some companies prefer to call it ‘electronic distribution’ or some such. But it’s the same thing.”
Rewrite the Economics
GarageGames’ head evangelist Jay Moore, who helped bring Orbz and ThinkTanks to market, adds that calling his company a shareware producer “would be like calling ourselves a ‘playable demo company.’ We’re committed to being the model independent games publisher. Independent game developers are primarily defined as self-funded — and self-directed — game developers.
“Online distribution of games is a marketing channel, but for us it doesn’t define the kind of company we aim to be, nor the kind of developer studios we aim to serve.”
Moore goes on to say that “online distribution has the potential to rewrite the economics of gaming by giving access directly to gamers and letting them decide what makes a great game. It makes it easier to stay close to the player, refining a game after you’ve first launched it and continuing to build a fan base over years, rather than in the three weeks you have to prove yourself on the retail shelf.”
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| Mummy Maze Deluxe
Genre: Puzzle/Trivia
The golden treasures of the pyramids await a daring explorer! But can you evade the fiendish Mummy? The Mac OS X version of the web hit fea
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| 3D Bridge Deluxe
Genre: Cards, Casino, Board
About 3D Bridge Deluxe
Bridge. You’ve heard of it. Now, you can play online using our award winning 3D Cardgames engine to see if you really are as good as you say. Take your weekly Bridge party across the world with anyone and everyone who has a hankering for this popular game.
3D Bridge Deluxe is a great way for beginners to learn the game with its own tutorials that will give you enough of the basics to play online with real people and get rankings on the HMS Freeverse Game Server. What are you waiting for? Be on your way to beating your in-laws!
What’s New In This Version
- “bot auto-substitution” in network play (if a player drops from the game he or she will be replaced by a computer opponent)
- speech synthesis
- support for XML-based puppets
- Many more enhancements
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| Dr. Blob’s Organism
About Dr. Blob’s Organism
A lightning-fast shooter game where players blast feisty one-celled organisms as they try to escape from a petri dish.
Each level in the game introduces new powerups (like freeze, lightning and multiguns) and special organism abilities (like force field, regeneration and frenzy) to enhance the fun and increase the challenge throughout the entire game.
The full version of Dr. Blob’s Organism features:
- 20 levels of increasing difficulty
- 10 different powerups
- 5 special blob abilities
- 3 difficulty settings
- 21 music tracks
- Many more features
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| Clan Lord
About Clan Lord
A world of high fantasy role-playing on the internet. Join thousands of players around the world whose online characters are exiled to a dangerous island chain, threatened by monsters, sorcery and political strife. Not just hack and slash — heal the wounded, study magic and solve puzzles.
Explore an enormous and constantly-growing world. Improve your skills and learn dozens of mystical abilities. Characters work together, not against each other. Form and lead your own clan. Socialize with people worldwide. Join groups of friends for heroic adventures. Gather fame and power — or scheme from the shadows. Undertake epic quests and drive the dramatic storyline.
Note: The game world is updated every two weeks and can be updated through the current version.
Genre: Role-Playing (RPG)
What’s New in this Version
- Armor is not supposed to spontaneously repair itself. Nor is armor supposed to make mystic boosts last forever. Both these problems are being investigated.
- Movies now play back at 4.3 fps, to match the server’s normal daytime frame rate.
- Red healing salves have been adjusted slightly, to make their effectiveness a bit more even for different players.
- Many more enhancements.
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| FINISH AT THE BEGINNING - ADVENTURE
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| You see a large sign. It says "I.F. An Introduction".
What would you like to do?> Continue.
One man is responsible for starting the Interactive Fiction phenomenon, and I.F. could be said to be the originator of all computer based adventure or role playing gaming.
The man was William Crowther.
Will Crowther and his wife Pat worked for Bolt/ Berandek & Newman, or BBN.
Pat and Will wrote assembly language for the first routers used in the creation of ARPAnet, a precursor to the Internet.
In his spare time Will was a keen cave explorer, who had a ASR33 Teletype machine set up in his living room, this connected to a main frame computer at BBN. Fellow cavers could input cave survey data into the machine, Pat had then developed a program that could turn this data into plotted maps.
"I had been involved in a non-computer role-playing game called Dungeons and Dragons at the time, and also I had been actively exploring in caves — Mammoth Cave in Kentucky in particular. Suddenly, I got involved in a divorce, and that left me a bit pulled apart in various ways. In particular I was missing my kids.
Also the caving had stopped, because that had become awkward, so I decided I would fool around and write a program that was a re-creation in fantasy of my caving, and also would be a game for the kids, and perhaps some aspects of the Dungeons and Dragons that I had been playing.
My idea was that it would be a computer game that would not be intimidating to non-computer people, and that was one of the reasons why I made it so that the player directs the game with natural language input, instead of more standardised commands. My kids thought it was a lot of fun."
- William Crowther
This first text adventure (written between 1968-72) was entitled "Adventure" (also called ADVENT, or Colossal Cave), and was written in Fortran for the PDP-10.
Moving on to pastures new, inventing the Internet - that sort of thing, Will left his game on one of the SAIL computers at his work. Here it was picked up by a chap called Don Woods.
Don, keen to seek the permission of Will Crowther to improve the game, had no idea how to get in contact with him. So he sent an email to willcrowther@everydomainnamein theworld.com! At this time there weren't that many domains and soon Don Woods got an answer.
Don, a keen follower of Tolkien's fiction, added much of the atmosphere to the game, trolls, elves, and a volcano inspired by Tolkien's description of Mount Doom, where Sauron forged the One Ring of Power in the Lord of the Rings trilogy.
Thus in the same way as the ring was forged, so was the world's first Interactive Fiction game.
Welcome to Adventure - where would you like go now?> Ported.
Porting means translating a program from one programming language to another. The importance of this means the 'ported' application may be run on a different type of computer.
Jim Gillogly was the first to port adventure from the original FORTRAN language to C, allowing Adventure to run on UNIX based computers. Gillogle with the help of Walt Bilofsky then ported it to IBM PC's and compatibles.
Porting is a complex process, especially when done by hand. This early hand porting approach can very much be seen as translating a book from one language to another. Often words in one language have no equal in the other, the interpreter then has to choose the best or closest way of reflecting the original word in the new language. This translation can often lead to very different interpretations and variants of the original document.
Thus these gaming pioneers created "The UNIX Adventure Tastefulness Committee", composing of Crowther, Woods, Jim, Walt, Peter Langston, Dennis Mumaugh, and Lauren Weinstein. If I can interrupt at this point of the historical journey, personally this Committee sounds highly suspicious to me, "yes dear, I'm just meeting the The UNIX Adventure Tastefulness Committee down the pub, won't be long"! Anyway, moving on...
The game in its new portable format spread like wild fire, inspiring such obsessive efforts to solve the game that it is rumoured numerous college seniors did not graduate that year as a result!
The game (according to Tracy Kidder in 'The Soul of a New Machine') was used as a bench mark measure for testing new computer hardware.
The game then for the first time left the world of the computer specialist and entered into the commercial domain. DECUS ( Digital Equipment Corporation User Group) were keen to market the game, and Adventure found itself bundled with new IBM PC machines.
DECUS included a secret code on completion of the game, which when presented to DECUS would result in the presentation of a Certificate of Wizardness, bearing (facsimile) signatures of both Crowther and Woods, and an embossed seal.
The original Adventure game could only run on room size main frames, this porting pattern gradually reduced the size of the machine in order for Adventure to run.
A porting that took this miniaturisation even further was accomplished by Jim Mahaffey when he ported the game to the Psion Organiser II.
Although slightly striped down in order to run on the Organiser's tiny memory, Adventure on the OrgII is a very playable adventure with true retro-appeal.
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| Another PodCast Mac Game Cast - only 3 episodes, last episode 16/08/2005
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