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GDC: Fallen Earth MMO comes to the Mac
By Peter CohenMarch 10, 2010, 10:45 am PT
At this week’s Game Developers Conference (GDC) in San Francisco, Icarus Studios announced the Mac beta release of Fallen Earth, a Massively Multiplayer Online (MMO) game. The new Mac beta release – available now – requires an Intel-based Mac running Mac OS X 10.5 or later.
Fallen Earth combines First Person Shooter (FPS) and Role Playing Game (RPG) elements in a post-apocalyptic world. Features include classless advancement, a real-time crafting system, a faction system that enables you to ally or rally against six different factions, and a world comprising 70 unique towns with more than 5,500 missions.
To make Fallen Earth Mac-compatible, Icarus is leveraging Wine, an open source translation layer technology that originally was developed to enable Linux operating systems to run software made for the Windows platform. The underpinnings of Wine have also been used by TransGaming to produce its Cider technology – used in EA games for the Mac like Spore and Dragon Age Origins. Wine is also leveraged by Codeweavers for its CrossOver Mac software.
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GDC: Fallen Earth MMO comes to the Mac
By Peter CohenMarch 10, 2010, 10:45 am PT
At this week’s Game Developers Conference (GDC) in San Francisco, Icarus Studios announced the Mac beta release of Fallen Earth, a Massively Multiplayer Online (MMO) game. The new Mac beta release – available now – requires an Intel-based Mac running Mac OS X 10.5 or later.
Fallen Earth combines First Person Shooter (FPS) and Role Playing Game (RPG) elements in a post-apocalyptic world. Features include classless advancement, a real-time crafting system, a faction system that enables you to ally or rally against six different factions, and a world comprising 70 unique towns with more than 5,500 missions.
To make Fallen Earth Mac-compatible, Icarus is leveraging Wine, an open source translation layer technology that originally was developed to enable Linux operating systems to run software made for the Windows platform. The underpinnings of Wine have also been used by TransGaming to produce its Cider technology – used in EA games for the Mac like Spore and Dragon Age Origins. Wine is also leveraged by Codeweavers for its CrossOver Mac software.
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