Sunday, November 10, 2002

Coming Soon to the Mac: EverQuest

According to Macworld UK, the world's largest multiplayer game will be arriving for Macs next February. This is good news for those of us who use Windows as seldom as possible.

"With OS X and Apple's desktop systems there will be an incredible gaming environment that will take full advantage of EverQuest's huge and seamless 3D world."

The SOE executive discussed Apple's work in making Mac OS X a good gaming platform: "It seems Apple is making great strides in making OS X an easy platform to work with for gaming, and that's very key in our continued interest. If Macintosh is going to compete with the very mature set of tools for gaming development on the Windows/Intel side, it has to start with the OS and Apple."

EverQuest has attracted a huge international audience (375,000 active players on PC). It has also attracted major media support: USA Today calls it the "next generation computer role playing game." The US Academy of Interactive Arts and Sciences awarded it the title of 2001's best massive multiplayer/persistent world game.

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