EA’s Mac Games Finally Showing Up

Remember way back at June’s WWDC, EA’s announcement that they’d be bringing games to OS X? Whatever happened to that, you ask? C|Net relays an EA press release that reveals four titles that are now available for the platform: Harry Potter and the Order of the Pheonix, NFS: Carbon, Battlefield 2142 and C&C 3. All four can be ordered now, but shipping varies between three and ten days.

You might wonder about the exclusion of the promised EA Sports games, including Madden and Tiger Woods. Those are also en route, but will not be seen until September/October. The fact that we are seeing these advanced games at all is impressive and shows how far the Cider technology has come. Now, where the heck are these games on Linux?

In response to an inquiry about the delay for Madden NFL ’08, an EA representative said “we’ve shorted the gap between the Mac launch and other platforms to just a few weeks. This is a huge leap compared with past launches. Over time, as EA gains experience in completing and shipping Mac games, the gap will narrow.” The representative did not specifically address what caused the delay, but some Mac gamers think there could be problems with the Cider technology used to port the Windows games to Mac OS.

Source: C|net