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Jeopardy! Deluxe
Play the classic TV game show on your Mac. Features customizable avatars and over 3000 new clues.

Mass Effect Gameplay Video
Mass Effect (PC)
Combat footage.

Reset Generation
An addictive multiplayer puzzle game makes the jump from mobile to PC.

Illustrix Dream Pack (Mac)
Try this game mix on your Mac!

Enemy Territory: Quake Wars Invades PS3 and Xbox

Quake has been one of the most popular and longest running FPS shooter franchises on the PC for a long time. The latest installment is Enemy Territory: Quake Ware and Pc gamers have been happily playing away on one of the best multiplayer shooters for a lo…

<i>Dragon Raja</i>
Dragon Raja (PC)

<i>Shaun White Snowboarding</i>
Shaun White Snowboarding (PC)

Temple Tantrum for Mac
Temple Tantrum is an exploration, arcade-type shareware game.

AMD 780 Series Gives Mainstream PCs an Innovation Overhaul: Robust 3D Gaming, Ultimate Blu-ray™ Experience and Energy Efficiency
AMD (NYSE: AMD) today announced the availability of the industry’s most advanced motherboard GPU, the AMD 780 Series, delivering a rich computing experience for casual gamers and multimedia enthusiasts as the core of quiet and energy-efficient PC designs. When paired with an AMD Phenom™ 9000 series quad-core processor or Athlon™ 64 X2 dual-core processor, the AMD 780 Series delivers significant enhancements in gaming and high-definition experiences for mainstream PC customers. The AMD 780 Series motherboard GPU is scheduled to be widely available from more than 40 AMD partners at launch. Global OEMs are expected to offer AMD 780 Series-based PCs starting in Q2 2008.

Temple Tantrum for Mac
Temple Tantrum is an exploration, arcade-type shareware game.

Jeopardy! Deluxe
Play the classic TV game show on your Mac. Features customizable avatars and over 3000 new clues.

Penguins Arena 1.5.1
Frogames Releases Penguins Arena – Sedna’s World For Mac OS X.

Reset Generation
An addictive multiplayer puzzle game makes the jump from mobile to PC.

<i>The Day</i>
The Day (PC)
In the MMO world of the future, the past is the greatest natural resource.

Apple 2013: Report Predicts Move Toward Home Devices
Predicting the new gadgets that Apple might concoct next is a favorite parlor game of the technology industry, Wall Street and the blogosphere. The latest chatter is that company CEO Steve Jobs will reveal at a developer conference beginning June 9 a new version of the iPhone that can surf the Web over fast 3G wireless networks.

Education and Games Part 2: The SAT

Last week we looked at the impact gaming is having on higher education, but that’s not the only way games are connecting to teaching.  Companies like Kaplan, best known for its standardized testing prep programs, are getting into the videogame arena.

Click the jump to see how.

Last July, Kaplan was contacted by Aspyr Media, the Texas-based developer that specializes in cross-developing PC games to the Mac. The two organizations worked together to come up with a new type of game, one that improves players’ skill at taking that universally dreaded college entrance requirement, the SAT test. Scheduled to be released on the PC, Mac OSX and DS, Kaplan and Aspyr’s SAT “game” will resemble other edutainment software already available, like Brain Age and Ubisoft’s My Coach series.

“We saw a lot of success with games like Brain Age and realized that there is this huge, huge audience and there are voids throughout that audience,” Aspyr VP for Publishing Ted Staloch said.

But just because the game is about tests doesn’t mean it can’t be enjoyable. The team at Aspyr says they’re focusing on making the game a piece of entertainment.

“The game is going to be an amazingly fun game so the audience can be as big as Brain Age,” Staloch said.

“It’s that science or that art of knowing what is the timing and the pace and what is acceptable for us to consider it to be fun or enjoyable or satisfying. We’re really trying to grab that first and bring in the expertise after,” Staloch said.

SAT prep is just the tip of the iceberg for Aspyr and Kaplan; both companies are looking to use their new relationship to further develop software for helping people get more fun out of studying for their test-taking.

“I think there’s a couple things,” Staloch said, “[the DS is] proven. It’s easy for us to look at a 12 million unit comparable in Brain Age and say that this audience likes game like this. And that audience might be young and it might be old; it doesn’t matter we just know there’s an audience that enjoys that. The nice thing Aspyr has and is able to do that a company like Kaplan couldn’t do is that we can support all platforms that are relevant. So going pretty specific into the style of our game and similar styles to games like Brain Age, and you realize that it works really good on the DS because it’s portable.”

But Kaplan and Aspyr don’t plan to stop at the DS, they say they’ll be expanding to other platforms as well. And the evolution of a video game demographic that has exploded on the scene with casual games being the focus? Staloch says Aspyr wants a piece of the pie.

“Thankfully the video games audience has just gotten so wide over the last 5 years. From Aspyr’s standpoint, we’re in the video game business so how we have to make the games and have that reach deep the biggest audience possible will do.

“I think its something we can all look at in the next 5 or 10 years and all say ‘huh maybe this was a lot bigger than we gave it credit for just because of what people might take away from this.’”

Jeopardy! Deluxe
Play the classic TV game show on your Mac. Features customizable avatars and over 3000 new clues.

Computer Industry Giants Wrestle for World Domination
I can’t stand this indecision married with a lack of vision Everybody wants to rule the world ~Tears for Fears, Everybody Wants to Rule the World. There has certainly been a lot of gamesmanship going on in the computer industry these past few weeks as the industry’s biggest players try to maneuver to gain the upper-hand in the ever-shifting landscape of our industry. If you have been paying attention, what seems like a list of random headlines is really about gaining world domination. We can only hope that the wrestling match continues unabated. Let’s take a look at a few of these…

<i>City of Heroes</i>
City of Heroes (PC)