crossover-games posts

Last week, we asked developers to reconsider the idea of creating games for simultaneous release on both PC and Mac platforms. However, we cannot control what others do; we can only ask. So let's concede for the moment that things will continue as they are now -- very few games coming out on both systems at the same time, and Mac getting ports of popular PC games much later than their original release. What's an avid Mac gamer to do?

Short of actually buying a PC just to play games -- and it must be said that the cost of a decent PC has dropped dramatically over the past few years -- there are a few options available, and they all contain the crazy voodoo called virtualization. Bear in mind that these are only the applications that I've personally tried myself. Check 'em out after the jump!

This week we're going a little meta here. Today's focus is on CrossOver Games, by CodeWeavers. CrossOver Games is part of the CrossOver platform, which purports to let Mac users run PC programs as though they were native. I was full of doubt when I started out on this journey, and I have emerged on the other side a True Believer. CrossOver works. It just works. I don't know, it's magic. Why, you ask? Read on to find out!