03-08-2001 07:00									#1
	Without Westlake... Put an end to popups!

...where would mac gaming be? Think about it: without them, we wouldn't have nearly as much software as we macers have now.

There'd be no civ3, alpha centauri, alien crossfire, deus ex, the sims (and expansions, however much I dislike them )...

I'd go as far as to say without westlake, the term 'mac gaming' wouldn't be around at all. Weird, eh? Maybe I'm wrong - maybe pc companies themselves would pick up where westlake left off, or macsoft would get the brunt of the new games.

Agree/disagree?

	03-08-2001 10:07									#2
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who is making mac games or conversions?

anybody left?

What? a year or so ago there was all this buzz about games following the good imac sales..but we haven't seen that much.

	03-08-2001 19:04									#3
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Westlake Interactive (www.westlakeinteractive.com ) makes all the major mac conversions - The Sims, Deus Ex, Alpha Centauri, House Party, Livin Large, etc - Aspyr publishes all those, along with Elite Force, Escape from Monkey Island, and a few others I can't really remember. Macsoft gets Rainbow 6 and variants, along with Driver, etc.

With the selection of Mac games is definitely inferior to the pc side, the quality is closing in, seeing as every production for an apple machine is a very expensive for the "small" dev companies.

So, without Westlake, mac gaming, IMO, would probably fall apart.