Electronic Arts, id at WWDC - announce Mac support


At Apple’s WWDC, Electronic Arts co-founder Bing Gordon and id’s John Carmack took the stage to pledge Mac support.


Screenshot from Carmack’s unnamed game

At Apple’s WWDC, Electronic Arts co-founder Bing Gordon and id’s John Carmack took the stage to pledge Mac support.

Gordon went first, announcing that EA’s first four titles will be Command and Conquer 3, Battlefield 2142, Need For Speed Carbon, and Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix.

Then, beginning in August, the company will release its EA Sports games Madden ‘08 and Tiger Woods for the Mac on the same day that the PC products launch.

Then, John Carmack came on stage to demo the technology from his his never-before-seen new game: “The demo begins with a kind of Road Warrior/Mad Max world fly through. What we’ve got here is the entire world covered in unique textures. 20GB or so of textures covering every surface of this racetrack.”

The game itself, still unnamed, will be shown on Mac, PC, PS3, and Xbox 360 later this year.

I’m probably the only one of the DU Crew who isn’t a bit of a gamer. But, I appreciate the advances in graphics tech brought to all of us by folks designing for the genre.

Posted: Tue - June 12, 2007 at 06:15 AM