Unreal Engine 3 Comes to the Mac Platform

Tis wonderful news, now lets hope those publisher contracts aren't so stingy that they forbid OSX ports!

Happy Gears of War 3 day everyone!

Awesome. Good to see they are starting to take Mac gaming a bit more serious lately.

To all my friends who say I can't play games on my Mac...

You are wrong yet again!

Hopefully they've been optimizing the engine.

Love the original Unreal game on Mac.

coder12 said:

To all my friends who say I can't play games on my Mac...

You are wrong yet again!

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Actually a Mac can play more games than a PC, because a Mac can run both platforms easily.

...Mortal Kombat 9?

Good work Epic. Next step, lets see some releases of your games. Bulletstorm?

Next step after that get the UDK tools working natively on OS X!

Consultant said:

Hopefully they've been optimizing the engine.

Love the original Unreal game on Mac.




Actually a Mac can play more games than a PC, because a Mac can run both platforms easily.

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It just can't run them as well with the video cards. My imac 27" i7 does ok with SC2 at 1920x1080, the frame rate is too low for my liking at native res.
For Diablo 3 i have to go to 1600x900 no AA to get a decent frame rate.
I'm thinking of picking up a lil PC for some gaming. For $900 i can get something that will blow this out of the water with an SSD to help it along. If i pick a displayport model i should be able to use my imac as a monitor.

Enjoy Infinity Blade on Mac!!! So amazing

Does this mean we can develop on Mac OS X?

This is great news! I look forward to all of the new games coming to Mac OS X.

With the previous versions of the UDK you needed a Windows machine to develop games for iOS. Does this change mean that we can now ditch our VMs and develop on Mac OS X?

Steam?

Let's hope those titles I already own on Steam just automagically start working on my macs! Really REALLY miss the original UT - I even had the unofficial OS X port on my PowerBook.

saxofunk said:

Let's hope those titles I already own on Steam just automagically start working on my macs! Really REALLY miss the original UT - I even had the unofficial OS X port on my PowerBook.

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Wouldn't it only work with UE3 games that have been recompiled to work under OS X?

beg_ne said:

Next step after that get the UDK tools working natively on OS X!

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Since UDK can't run in OS X I wonder how the Mac support works. Has Epic managed to replicate the OS X toolchain and SDK in Windows so that you can compile and output a Mac compatible app in Windows or does it just output an XCode project that you then need to transfer to OS X and compile there?

Maybe MacSoft will finally port Unreal Tournament 3 to Mac OS X! It's only been 3 years... maybe "this spring" it will finally happen!

diamond.g said:

Wouldn't it only work with UE3 games that have been recompiled to work under OS X?

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Yes, like UT3, and GoW, etc. One would of course have to do fresh installs to any Mac, but with Steam Play, you're stats and progress would migrate cross-platform. That is IMO the advantage of Steam over something like the Mac App Store. Not even iCloud is going to sync game stats, or app settings, that sort of thing. iCloud already seems like an infantile online backup, but I'm off topic. Let's hope this ushers in more development on the Mac with the Mac App Store providing easy distribution...

Well I don't want any old games coming out on the Mac. Why would I? I want to see NEW releases on it, but then again they won't run very well.

I'll stick to my consoles, I don't want to see Gears Of War 3 on a Mac or a PC. It's a 360 game IMO.

But it is funny to read comments about people wanting 3 or 4 year old games released on a mac now!!


At least Mac Rumors can correctly state which games have used the UDK, unlike 9to5mac which in it's version of the story hasn't got a clue and states Rage HD was made on the UDK

This site goes up, that other site is dropping like a brick, in regards to reputation and journalism.

Hope it's not too late for Mass Effect 3 to get the treatment

coder12 said:

To all my friends who say I can't play games on my Mac...

You are wrong yet again!

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Have you tried playing a game like these on your Mac? If you have a Mac laptop, you'll have to wear headphones to drown out the fan and if you're on battery you'll be lucky to get an hour of play time. And don't forget your flame retardant undergarments.

Ut3

Here's hoping Unreal Tournament 3 will be ported over... it'd be awesome to play that on a new 27 inch iMac

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Since UDK can't run in OS X I wonder how the Mac support works. Has Epic managed to replicate the OS X toolchain and SDK in Windows so that you can compile and output a Mac compatible app in Windows or does it just output an XCode project that you then need to transfer to OS X and compile there?

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The UDK doesn't run on XBOX either and somehow they manage to get console games ported over.

I would love to see the UDK Editor available on the Mac one day, it's a shame it relies on .net so much =[

What took so long!?

Consultant said:

Hopefully they've been optimizing the engine.

Love the original Unreal game on Mac.




Actually a Mac can play more games than a PC, because a Mac can run both platforms easily.

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If only Mac's have the hardware to take advantage of that fact.

fxtech said:

The UDK doesn't run on XBOX either and somehow they manage to get console games ported over.

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Are you referring to the first Xbox or the Xbox 360, the one with the Gears Of War series that is built entirely on Unreal Engine 3 in the UDK by Epic who made the UDK?