10 Best Video Games You Can Play On Your Mac
Mac games are actually a thing? You're damn right.
Whenever a Mac user smugly sings the praises of their computer and talks about how it's not as vulnerable to viruses, how smooth the OS X interface is, how great Macs are for video editing and how slick those annoying wireless mono-button mice are, the PC gamer will always have the retort: "Yeah... but you can't play games on it." It's a reasonable response, and one that is mostly pretty accurate. The PC has long been the gamers' platform of choice, engaging users in tweaking it, upgrading it, then firing it up like a spaceship and playing games how they should be played. The Mac, meanwhile, has been the platform slicksters' and the hipsters' platform. But with the rise of Steam and indie games in recent years, the landscape has been changing, and games have been increasingly accessible on the platform that was once so proud to call itself 'game-free'. While Apple seems to have all but given up on making the Mac supplant the PC as the ultimate gaming platform (an erstwhile ambition of Steve Jobs' in the late 90s), there is a growing number of developers and publishers porting their games over. Yes, games are now infecting the once-pure Mac, and here are the best of 'em.