Five days, five free games
Mac Games Arcade is a new freeware interface for downloading hundreds of Mac games and organizing them. The games themselves are not free, but as a promotion for Mac Games Arcade, you can download one game a day — for free — over the next five days. First up is Pangea Arcade, which is free today (Friday). It’s a collection of three games called Nucleus, Warheads, and Firefall, all of which involve blowing up enemies at a frantic pace. Another game, to be announced, will be available on Saturday. I have really enjoyed other Pangea games, such as Bugdom and Otto Matic.
What’s the catch? This is basically an online store similar to iTunes. So you will have to give them your credit card number and other personal information. On the other hand, it was created by the maker of Inside Mac Games and Macgamestore.com, both of which have a good reputation. Also, the developers, such as Pangea, have good reputations. I took the leap of faith.
I have no complaints about the process. The weird part is that once the game is installed, you launch it by clicking on a Play button in Mac Games Arcade — similar to the way you would click on a Play button in iTunes. The actual game wound up being installed in a special Mac Games Arcade folder in the Documents folder — not Applications as you might expect — so you could launch it from there if you prefer. The whole concept can take some getting used to, but if you download and play a lot of games, it might be a good way to keep them organized.
Posted Friday, December 19, 2008 in Reviews
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