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Battlefield 2 Demo Available
bbzzdd writes "Looks like FPS geeks aren't leaving the house this weekend. EA games has released a demo for the long awaited Battlefield 2 . The 547 MB demo is available at: Filerush (Torrent), GameSpot, Filefront, Gamer's Hell, Worthplaying, Download.com, Computer Games Romania .
This isn't a simulator....
The eternal struggle of good vs. evil begins within one's self.
You mean OpenGL and OpenAL, right? 'Cause that's what you're talking about. Those are available on pretty much all OS's
What it would take to "move PC gaming away from being a Microsoft OS-specific activity" (if that were true, which it isn't) is for a platform to come out that has as easy of a game development SDK, hardware and driver support from ISVs, and enough of an installed base for game development to look lucrative to developers.
The Mac has maybe one of those. No change in the CPU is going to magically grant it the other two.
OpenGL and OpenAL are two such multimedia facilities offered by Mac OS X. Indeed, along with other Mac OX S technologies such as Quartz, QuickTime, QuickDraw it does begin to form the backbone of the ultimate gaming PC.
The transition to the Intel platform may very well give it the userbase it needs. In fact, it may be a case of the two building off one another: the increased userbase will increase its appeal to game developers, who will provide more games, which will further entice current Windows gamers to switch over to Mac OS X and Apple computers, which will lead to further game develpment, and so on.
Cyric Zndovzny at your service.