So Diablo III launched last night in North America, Europe, and Latin America. Something like 2 million people pre-ordered it. Of course, the Blizzard servers had a hard time keeping up with the pent-up demand. A lot of us think there should have been more testing, but I’m actually just wanting to talk about the internet connection DRM requirements.
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This is the latest bulletin:
1:55 p.m. PDT – Starting at approximately 2:15 p.m. PDT, we will be bringing Diablo III servers in the Americas offline for urgent maintenance to address several issues that are impacting the game. We anticipate that maintenance will last for about an hour and that servers will be available at approximately 3:30 p.m. PDT. We will provide further updates as they are necessary. Thank you for your patience.
Torchlight II, an upcoming action and roleplaying game for Macs and PCs, with elements of steampunk and fantasy, features four classes, the Outlander, the Embermage, the Engineer, and the Berserker. PC Gamer has put together videos on all four of them.
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The follow-up to Rovio’s Angry Birds has been announced, via Finnish website Yle. It’s called “Amazing Alex”, and it’s based on the Casey’s Contraptions games, which Rovio recently purchased, and will be out in two months. Like Angry Birds, it’ll be a puzzle/strategy game, and like Angry Birds, there will probably be a Mac OS X version of Amazing Alex.
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Yesterday, Feral Interactive announced another port of a popular game – Tomb Raider: Underworld will be avaialble for Mac gamers later this month (May 31st) for $25. The hardware requirements are not too bad, and she fights tigers and shards. What else needs to be said?
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A few weeks ago I told you about Republique and its Kickstarter project. It’s down to the final hour, and it has met its goals, and upped the ante for this horror/action/survival game from Camouflaj! Remember, a pledge of $15 or more will get you a Mac OS X copy of this game.
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Three high-profile games that have launched on Mac OS X recently have all received updates, and news of upcoming updates. Angry Birds Space, Bastion, and Botanicula all received bug fixes, with Angry Birds Space receiving new content. These all apply to the Mac App Store versions.
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In case you missed it, the official SpaceVenture Kickstarter project page is alive. The Kickstarter project for SpaceVenture, a collaboration between the original Space Quest creators in the same vein as the original Space Quest series, aims to secure enough funding to get the project going. If it succeeds, there will be a Mac version!
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Last month, the Leisure Suit Larry remake met its Kickstarter goals for funding. Al Lowe, the original LSL creator, spoke with Gamasutra, and indicated he would be supervising/directing the remake, which will be available for Mac gamers.
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Mac OS X 10.7.4 (Lion) was released yesterday by Apple. Even if you aren’t a Mac gamer, you should grab this update anyways, since it contains security fixes/updates, and updated Safari, and for those in Great Britain, it improves the compatibility with certain third-party British USB keyboards. A lot of gamers use other keyboards – this might fix a few issues they are having.
Links:
- First off, you can install it through Software Update
- If you want the actual download, see the Apple page
- Detailed Information about the update