EVE Online available to Mac, Linux users
Posted by Dennis Sellers 
Nov 7, 2007 at 5:51am
CCP, an independent game developers, and TransGaming, a developer of software portability products for the electronic entertainment industry, have announced the availability of EVE Online, a leading massively multiplayer online game (MMOG), on the Mac and Linux platforms.
CCP and TransGaming collaborated to develop the Mac and Linux versions of EVE Online to allow users across platforms to play within the same perpetual online universe, enabling large-scale battles with thousands of players. Integration of EVE Online’s original code for Microsoft Windows with Cider, for the Mac, and Cedega, for Linux, preserves the high quality of the game’s performance on the new platforms, according to Thor Gunnarsson, vice president of business development of CCP. These engines allow the original code base to run on Mac and Linux and therefore deliver equivalent game play, as well as ensure that the game evolves congruently on all three platforms without delays, he adds.
A free, 14-day trial for EVE Online is available for download. For details of the CCP and TransGaming partnership, go here.
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Dennis has been a newspaper editor/reporter (seven years) and teacher (seven years). He has over 4,000 magazine, newspaper and online articles to his credit. He has also covered the Mac and tech industries for over a decade for such online publications as MacCentral, MacMinute and now MacsimumNews.
