Apple shows game previews at surprise guest event

In view of the fact that the advanced gaming market is dominated by consoles e PCs com Windowsa Apple has been running in recent years with the aim of making itself attractive in the eyes of developers — with the highest priority being the macOSsystem where its greatest deficiency lies.

In yet another action to show the potential of its devices for games, the company promoted a surprise event just for influencers and invited journalists, which featured developers who are porting games to the company’s platforms. The guests had early access to the titles and, at least some of them, showed enthusiasm for what was to come.

The big star of the meeting was the future Call of Duty: Warzone Mobilewhich was the subject of an extensive article in the Tom’s Guide. For Marshall Honorof, the experience with the game was positive – which he did not expect for an FPSFirst-person shootor first-person shooter.”>¹, a game genre that requires precision, running on the tiny touchscreen of an iPhone. However, he highlighted that he played under privileged circumstances, such as a good connection and with opponents mostly being bots.

According to CNN, which was also present at the event, the game will be released for free later this year for both iOS and Android smartphones. The game will allow data to be synchronized between different platforms and — the best — that iOS and Android gamers will be able to play and compete simultaneously with each other.

In the App Store, where it is already possible to make a pre-booking, a release date for 15th May.

The Medium is coming to macOS!

Other games for iOS and even for Apple Arcade were also tested, but the second highlight of the event was The Mediuma psychological horror game released for Xbox and Windows PCs in 2021 and coming natively to Apple Silicon Macs soon.

Mike Andronicus, da CNN, tested the game on a Mac mini running the M2 chip and liked what he saw. According to him, the game seemed to run just as well on a powerful Windows PC he has at home — which is equipped with a state-of-the-art NVIDIA RTX 3080 graphics card.

Photo: Mike Andrônico/CNN

The game ran in 4K at 60 frames per second and should work well even on the MacBook Air with M1 chip, released in 2020. This is thanks to the APIApplication programming interfaceor application programming interface.”>² Metal 3, launched last year by Apple to promote greater optimization in games on macOS — a system that still lacks an extensive library of titles.

Andronico believes that the game’s arrival on macOS will be significant for the future of games on the operating system as a whole — a trend that started with the launch of Resident Evil Village and will continue with games like The Medium and No Man’s Sky — which had its launch in the system postponed until this year.

via 9to5Mac