Games

A Maine state senatorial candidate’s World of Warcraft status has become a point of contention with the opposition party.

From hard-core shooters to amazingly fun casual games, thousands of quality Mac games are available for purchase and download. Explore the latest demos, dive into the best sellers, or check out the newest indie gems.

The beta is over and the final version is available for download.

Pangea has updated its iOS games for the larger screen of the iPhone 5 and new iPod touch.

Call of Duty Black Ops is headed to the Mac on September 27, 2012.

Overhaul Games has postponed the release of Baldur’s Gate Enhanced Edition by two months – it’s expected in November instead.

Nintendo plans to release a new video game console to replace its Wii system, which comes to the U.S. this November for $299.

Among its new features the app offers a sleak, easy to use interface, an intuitive system requirements checker, automatic game updates, and a place to meet with your fellow Mac gamers.

Great new Web site and app for Mac gamers.

Atari’s Greatest Hits is free through the end of the day (Saturday, September 1st). Grab it now and save yourself $10 for 99 classic arcade and console games!

City of Heroes and its development studio, Paragon Studios, are shutting down.

Freeverse, one of Mac gaming’s stalwart indie supporters and early iOS game pioneers, has had a significant layoff, according to reports – coming on the heels of their cofounders’ departure.

A new “4X” strategy game has appeared for the Mac called Endless Space. If you like Civilization or Masters of Orion, this may be your new jam.

Pangea has released Nanosaur 2: Battle, a free download from the App Store that lets you challenge up to three other players in online flying combat.

Activision Anthology is a collection of classic games originally made for the Atari 2600, now available on iOS.

Jeff Scott:

Promoting violence between political parties while using the presidential candidates as fighters in the game is disrespectful. Possibly even dangerous considering the current extremely heightened anger between real-life political parties. It’s irresponsible for Rock the Vote! to attach their name to this and degrading for a well respected game development house like Chair Entertainment to release it.

If you’re a retro gamer—or if you want to try out the games long-time gamers are always going on about, there’s never been a better time than now to indulge your passion for vintage video games. There are lots of good ways to do feed your jones, and even a few that don’t cost too much money.

Sega!

OnLive was days away from shutting down when it sold its assets to another company last week, reveals a financial services firm involved in the transaction.

Rantmedia Games is preparing a Vectrex emulator for the iPad – one of the coolest video game consoles you’ve probably never played.

Dean Takahashi for VentureBeat:

The pioneering cloud gaming service OnLive confirmed today that its assets have been sold to a new company. The company will continue to operate its services during the transition and it is backed “by substantial funding,” said a spokeswoman for Steve Perlman, the chief executive of OnLive.“We can now confirm that the assets of OnLive, Inc. have been acquired into a newly formed company and is backed by substantial funding, and which will continue to operate the OnLive Game and Desktop services, as well as support all of OnLive’s apps and devices, as well as game, productivity and enterprise partnerships,” the company said in a statement.

LEGO Batman 2: DC Super Heroes is headed to the Mac next month, via Feral Interactive.

EA is making its Origin game store available for Mac users and others in the near future.

EA is suing Zynga for copyright infringement over similarities between EA’s Sims Social and Zynga’s The Ville.

Railroad Story is a time management game with a twist: You’re in charge of a railroad in burgeoning parts of the country needing rail commerce.

The complaint, filed in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California claims Zynga’s recently released Facebook game “The Ville” willfully and intentionally “copied and misappropriated the original and distinctive expressive elements of the Sims Social.

Sounds like Samsung designers are working for Zynga.

Diablo III bit into World of Warcraft sales, according to Blizzard’s CEO.

Id Software’s mobile efforts have been put to rest for now while the game developer is focusing on creating Doom 4.