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• Big fish games bought for mac convert to pc? Pc#

Wasn’t strictly a gaming story-but it really set the tone for the year for the entire Mac market, games included. In addition to mainstream hits and the rise of casual games, here are five more gaming developments from 2006-some bright spots, some troublesome, and some a little bit of both. That’s a very hopeful sign for the continued growth of the casual gaming market.

Big fish games bought for mac convert to pc? Pc#

I can’t count the number of times that I’ve received an e-mail this year from a reader who tells me he’s just gotten a Mac mini, or a MacBook, or an iMac, and when he had his PC he used to play this game, and wanted to know if it was available for the Mac, or if anything like it was available for the Mac. What’s more, PC-to-Mac “switchers” are looking for those games, as well. While some Doom fans and Call of Duty enthusiasts might poo-poo the casual games market as not “serious” enough, the fact is that the market is huge, and Macs are every bit as good at playing those games (if not better) than their PC equivalents. It’s a trend that will continue through 2007. Casual game makers finally realized in 2006 that the Mac market happened to be rife with the kind of users who like to kick back and enjoy themselves with a quick casual puzzler or round of cards.

Major commercial titles aside, the one area that saw tremendous growth in 2006 was the casual game market.īig Fish Games, PlayFirst and other vendors of casual games that have historically stuck closer to the PC market discovered a wide-open opportunity with the Mac, which has been long underserved by popular game publishers.