Apple direct-selling OSX games
No download store, but free shipping plus online demos and trailers
Apple has quietly added a Mac OSX games section to its online store.
While the titles are physical media-based, with no sign of a download service as yet, it is perhaps the most accommodating the firm has yet been to Mac games.
Launched without fanfare, the sub-site includes trailers and demos (where available) for the titles it sells, plus reviews and editorial.
Pricing for the 84 available titles - which so far broadly constitute older games – are largely in-line with PC retail prices, though some dramatically exceed it.
The five-year-old Age Of Empires III, for example, is £40.
The US store offers free shipping on all titles, while the UK subsidiary adds delivery charges for all orders under £78.
I gave up on Apple OS (including older versions) as a gaming platform about 10 - 15 years ago and gave up on Apple as a design/animation platform when they made the move to Intel chips.
Hopefully developers and publishers will start taking advantage of Steam's Mac platform and tech. Still not much there for Mac gamers yet, but Valve says that will change in the next year or two.