{"id":150,"date":"2006-11-15T18:58:52","date_gmt":"2006-11-16T00:58:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.mhvt.net\/?p=150"},"modified":"2008-07-11T13:21:38","modified_gmt":"2008-07-11T21:21:38","slug":"age-of-empires-iii-finally-coming-to-macs-but","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.mhvt.net\/?p=150","title":{"rendered":"Age of Empires III Finally Coming to Macs But&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"Age of Empires 3 Mac\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"mac\/mac_game\/age_of_empires_3.jpg\" alt=\"Age of Empires 3 Mac\" width=\"240\" height=\"140\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Almost 13 months after its PC version was released, Mac users are finally about to enjoy the latest sequel of Ensemble Studio&#8217;s real-time strategy game, &#8216;Age of Empires III&#8217; as MacSoft annouced yesterday that the Mac version has gone gold.  That means the game will be distributed in a couple of weeks or so.  By the way, Ensemble Studio published an expansion pack called &#8216;The WarChiefs&#8217; for PCs last month.  <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>A serious question remains for Mac gamers.  The best part of Age of Empires games including Age of Mythology is its multiplayer capability.  The Mac versions of Age of Empires II and Age of Mythology use GameRanger as well as Direct Connect for the online connectivity.  If Age of Empires III supports GameRanger, it will be a mess for a while.  A major problem surrounding GameRanger is that its application has not been in Universal Binary.  So Intel Mac users are forced to run the application in Rossetta.  Furthermore, OpenTransport bugs have been found.  So some users may get kicked out of the online connectivity while playing.  We don&#8217;t know if this problem occurs in Age of Empires II or other games although we are aware that some Age of Mythology players suffer from it.  And it is also true that many people have left GameRanger and play PC games with BootCamp.<\/p>\n<p>Click on the button to play Age of Empires 3 game trailer. <a href=\"mac\/games\/age_of_empires_3.mov\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mhvt.net\/quicktime\/eng\/graphics\/button.gif\" width=\"25\" height=\"25\" alt=\"VTC\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Almost 13 months after its PC version was released, Mac users are finally about to enjoy the latest sequel of Ensemble Studio&#8217;s real-time strategy game, &#8216;Age of Empires III&#8217; as MacSoft annouced yesterday that the Mac version has gone gold. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.mhvt.net\/?p=150\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":342,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mac-games"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mhvt.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mhvt.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mhvt.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mhvt.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/342"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mhvt.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=150"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mhvt.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mhvt.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mhvt.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mhvt.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}