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The Weekly Dose

20 May 2013

Hi all, Skylarzz here. At the moment the front page is pretty dead, so in hope to get it going again, the weekly dose was made. I recently came up with the idea from browsing the forums and hence here it is, so things will be different then previous Articles, hopefully you all enjoy it. I'd love to here what you guys think about the first article in the line of many more (hopefully). Anyways, I'll stop talking about this now and get straight into it. Enjoy!

So recently the gaming side of macs has sprung up again, with heaps of new games coming out this month new ports are sure to follow. Doh123’s wineskin has stepped up a notch and has been noticed more in the gaming community, especially the OS X side of games. There's some interesting updates coming your way so keep an eye out and read in on the weekly news below.

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The Weekly Dose

Introducing, the Weekly Dose!

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A meloncholy happy trails to LucasArts

A look back at one of our Favourite Game companies:

Disney shuts down internal game development at LucasArts gamers of yesteryear all cry on April 3rd 2013. Any console gamer post Dreamcast or Mac user post Mac OS Classic - ask who....?

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Black Ops II - April Fools Joke

Thanks everyone who had some fun with our Black Ops II April Fools Joke.

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New member signup (temporarily?) enabled again

New member signup is enabled until further notice, to check whether we were able to solve the SPAM issue or it needs more drastical measures.

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New member signup disabled

New member signup is temporarily disabled.

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Elder Scrolls, Elder Scrolls, Elder Scrolls

Elder Scrolls Online to be out sometime in 2013, for Both Windows and Mac OS X.

Sign up for the Beta today.

Plus information about past Elder Scrolls games.

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Happy Holiday From The Portingteam!

If you can read this, we survived the "End of the World" yesterday.

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Portingteam Offical IRC Channel

Did you know the Portingteam has an IRC channel? Continue reading, and learn how to join.

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How to Make your games run again after OS updates

Have your wrappers stopped working on your Macintosh after you installed Mac OS X Lion 10.7.5 or Mac OS X Mountain Lion 10.8.2?

We have a fix! - What is old is new again!

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The Humble Indie Bundle V

Independent Games Bundle

( Mac / Windows / Linux )

A collection of incredible, best-selling Indie Games? check. Cross-platform? check. Helping charity with the purchase? check. It lets you even pay what you want? check.
The Humble Indie Bundle is a collection of Games by independent developers who team up every now and then to ring up some support for charity, and to sell these games on a pay-what-you-want basis. This usually results in sales by the truckload when the Humble Bundle goes live.

In the fifth humble bundle the following games are included: Bastion, Amnesia: The Dark Descent, Psychonauts, LIMBO and Superbrothers: Sword & Sworcery EP
The Humble Indie Bundle V is now live until the 15th of June on the humblebundle website.

Updated: Games added to the Bundle now include Super Meat Boy, Lone Survivor and Braid

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Port Database Nexus & My Nexus Pages

Ideas are the start of everything. And once in a while, a good one also pops up here.

If you are visiting us here, all bets are on that you are going to check out our Port Database.
Mac OSX Wrappers for PC Games, Ported Applications, or Freeware & Classic Ports, the Port Database has got them all.

The Port Database is easily searchable for anything, Ports can be easily posted & downloaded. But every system has a little downside.
Due to the overwhelming amount of Ports we got in it, submitted by various members, porters and users, it's becoming a little pita adventure to navigate through it.
Categories aren't helping much when you've got nearly 1200 working Ports in it, so keeping up with the latest Ports or searching are most likely the best options a system like the Port Database can give it's users.

But there can always be something better, or at least an alternative.
And a few days ago, we made a little something called the Port Database Nexus & the My Nexus Pages.

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Mac gaming, is native always better?

Mac gaming, is native always better?

These days there are popping up more and more mac games. These games are usually put into two categories, native and wrapped games.
The wrapped games are usually using Cider and more recently also wine (with doh123's Wineskin). These wrapped ports are often much like the ones made on the Porting Team, or nearly identical, like the recently released The Witcher on steam which was available (wrapper only, you still needed to buy the PC game) on Porting Team already in 2010.

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Dungeon Defenders

Official Mac Game Release:

Dungeon Defenders

The exemplary downloadable offering Dungeon Defenders is a perfect hybrid of multiplayer, action-RPG, and tower defense. It's available on Steam for $14.99. It's also available on Xbox Live Arcade, PlayStation Network, the App Store, and the Android Market.
According to Trendy Entertainment, the game "puts players in the role of one of four distinctive hero classes, tasked with fending off hordes of invading beasties by strategically summoning a variety of Defenses & Traps throughout their castle. But as much more than just a strategy game, players directly participate in the action-packed combat with their hero characters, while upgrading their statistics, gathering tons of loot and inventory items, customizing & upgrading equipment, and developing unique class abilities. All of this can be enjoyed in seamless online and split-screen local multiplayer, as players cooperate and compete through the story campaign and challenge missions to build the strongest heroes and achieve the highest scores in the kingdom."

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The Darkness II

Official Mac Game Release:

The Darkness II

Seems like the year-long wait mac users always had for high grade Games on OSX is now gradually shortening. (Mostly thanks to Cider or Wine, *cough* )

The Darkness II is a first person shooter video game developed by Digital Extremes and published by 2K. The game is a sequel to the 2007 Title "The Darkness", which release date fell quite in the dark (no pun intended) by some heavy games released that month, coupled with 360/PS3-only availability. The Darkness II release date was pushed back a little to avoid the same mistake again for the (now different) developer. TransGaming, masters of Cider, ported the game to Mac OS X and the Port is now available on the Mac App Store (currently on sale for $29.99 / €22.80, full price $49.99) and on Steam. ($49.99)

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Bastion

Official Mac Game Release:

Bastion

In a surprising turn of events, Supergiant Games has ported their immaculate action-RPG Bastion to Mac. It is available now on the App Store and will be available as a SteamPlay release on May 2nd. The price is $14.99 in the US App Store, and the game is rated E10+ for fantasy violence and animated blood. IGN gave it a 9.0, Game Informer gave it a 9.25, GamePro gave it a perfect 5/5, and Edge gave it a 9. It also won downloadable GOTY, Indie of the year, indie RPG of the year, best soundtrack of 2011, most original game, best story, XBLA game of the year, and Best Debut and Best Downloadable from the Game Developers Choice Awards. It also won several awards at the prestigious Independent Games Festival.

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Wineskin Winery 1.5 + Wineskin 2.5.5 Released!

Wineskin Winery 1.5 update & Wineskin 2.5.5 is out!  There should be noticeable performance improvements in many games!
Minor changes really except whats noted below.
Also as a warning,  Wineskin 2.5.5 will be 10.6+ only... 10.5 support is being dropped.
This version of Wineskin Winery will still run on 10.5 and if you use manually installed items to get WS8 engines and wrappers 2.5.4, then it should still work.  The built in downloading will eventually move over to only 10.6 compatible stuff.  WS9 engines which will eventually start showing up will also be 10.6+ only.

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Deus Ex - Human Revolution Ultimate Edition

Upcoming Official Mac Game Release:

Deus Ex: Human Revolution Ultimate Edition

The popular game Deus Ex: Human Revolution is coming to the Mac App Store (official Port by Feral Interactive) next Wednesday, April 25th. It's under the title the Ultimate Edition - which basically means it has all the DLC, including the epilogue - The Missing Link. But that's not ALL that's included! It has a 40-page art book, a motion comic, a CGI trailer, an animated storyboard, the game's soundtrack, and more! The original game was excellently handled by Square Enix and Eidos, and the port is being handled by Feral Interactive. The price is £34.99/€39.99/$50.

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S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Mac - Now with Dynamic Lighting Support

S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Shadow of Chernobyl
S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Clear Sky
S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Call of Pripyat

This series is loosely based on a movie and set of novels from the late 70's. The story has become wildly popular world wide due to the this rendition of the story line, the video games. For those that have played the series know what the draw of the game really is all about. The game is a first person RPG set in the nuclear aftermath of atomic proportions. Without getting into too much detail I can assure you that the game has gained a reputation for a reason. The games have an authentic feel to them not found in any other game I've come across. The haunting environment and terrifying creatures lend the living breathing atmosphere that makes up the Zone and it's surrounding areas. Tread carefully as you complete main missions and hundred of side jobs throughout the entire series

These games are not new to the Mac platform, in fact it was originally ported about three years ago. The software development over the last three years has increased exponentially and better support for games has been implemented into wine.

One of the biggest draws of these games is the physical environment, and open ended world…The windows version has enjoyed the full use of all four lighting schemes, the low static lighting, and the three top tier dynamic lighting schemes. Unfortunately Wine lacked the ability to make the dynamic lighting schemes work….UNTIL NOW

FULL DYNAMIC LIGHTING in the S.T.A.L.K.E.R. series is now implemented. I have only updated the Clear Sky wrapper for now but the other two will be updated very soon…This post will be edited to include the other two in due time.

If you would like to implement this into your currently installed games you can visit the Wine HQ App DB and search for the S.T.A.L.K.E.R. game you are playing. You will be required to know how to edit the registry file located in the resources folder of the wrapper.

But for now here is:

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Fallout: New Vegas

Featured Port: Front Page Spotlight
Fallout: New Vegas

When approaching the development of the New Vegas strip, Obsidian knew that they wanted to create a location that was familiar and recognizable. All of the sights and sounds as players are walking between the neon lights should, in an instant, trigger the feeling they are walking down the Vegas strip.

Of course, New Vegas’ strip is not without its own flourishes. Players can expect to see drunken soldiers aimlessly walking along the streets and can even dabble in the sin of the city themselves, but don’t let yourself get too carried away or else security bots will have to lay down the law and take you out. If only actual Vegas had those.
Check out the developer diary below, and keep your eyes peeled for a surprise appearance by Mr. New Vegas himself, Wayne Newton, as well.

As one would expect from a game that takes place in and around casinos, there will be gambling mini-games abound. From the diary we can see that several card games will be making appearances along with the old Strip standard: slot machines. If they have a couple Texas hold ‘em tables I’m going to be hard pressed to even continue the story.
It certainly has been a pleasant treat to hear Obsidian speak about all that went into making Fallout: New Vegas a unique experience that still falls in line with gamers’ expectations. The locale is extremely enticing and customization is being taken to the next level, so if the developers can simply hit all of the right notes that Fallout 3 hit, I believe we have a winner on our hands. We’re only a couple of days away from its release so you better hit the bank and withdraw some singles.
What do you think of Obsidian’s New Vegas strip? What do you hope to see recreated under the bright lights and amidst the debauchery?

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