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The Europa Universalis Series: History is Your Playground
With our recent release of Europa Universalis III Chronicles – and the compilation’s availability this week at the Mac App Store — we thought we’d take a stroll down memory lane and examine a series that has become a major player … Continue reading
Driving future Mac games growth with Unreal Engine 3
We recently announced that we were the company behind the Mac version of Unreal Engine 3, which Epic brought to the game development world last month. “Every UDK [Unreal Development Kit] game’s potential user base has increased dramatically yet again,” … Continue reading
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Tagged epic games, mac gaming, mac os x, unreal engine 3
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Defense Grid: Tips and Tricks
Looking for some tips and tricks to help you defeat the aliens in Defense Grid: The Awakening? Here are the ones included in the article that was originally published on the Apple Games site, which no longer exists. Since I … Continue reading
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Tagged defense grid, tips and tricks
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Darkest of Days’ Bright and Shiny Development
Some people graduate from college and dream of becoming rock stars, or founding a breakthrough Internet company. Mark Doeden, Andres Reinot, and Jeff Russell started 8monkey Labs during the summer of 2005 while “looking for an outlet for our passion … Continue reading
Posted in Darkest of Days, General blog post, Mac Games
Tagged 8monkey labs, darkest of days, mac games, phantom efx
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Defense Grid: The Next Level in Tower Defense
(This article originally appeared on MacGamer last November.) When it debuted for PC and Xbox 360 in December 2008, Defense Grid: The Awakening offered a unique twist on the tower defense sub-genre of strategy games. Virtual Programming published Defense Grid for … Continue reading
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Tagged defense grid, mac games, strategy, tower defense
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Supreme Commander 2 Lead Designer Chris Taylor Discusses a Few of His Favorite Things
(This article originally appeared on the MacGamer web site in September 2010.) Virtual Programming has shipped the Mac version of Supreme Commander 2, and Gas Powered Games’ Chris Taylor sat down with me — in a virtual sense; we talked … Continue reading
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Tagged chris taylor, rts, supreme commander 2
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Our Lion updates
Have you installed Mac OS X version 10.7 Lion yet? If so, and you need updates for any of our games, please check out this page on our web site. Thanks.
ItzaBitza: Beyond Edutainment
(This article was originally published on MacGamer in December 2010.) How do you make learning fun? For Margaret Johnson, CEO and co-founder of Sabi Games, the answer to that question came when her daughter had major surgery and was playing … Continue reading
Inside Majesty 2
(This was originally published on the MacGamer site in December 2010. Since then, Virtual Programming has published the third Majesty 2 expansion pack, Monster Kingdom.) Majesty 2: Fantasy Franchise Given a Second Chance With Virtual Programming releasing both Majesty 2 … Continue reading
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