Several people emailed me about SC Legacy posting a letter with Blizzard saying Mac SC would be out “before the holidays” whatever that means. Someone mailed me saying MacMall had a mid october date. So there is hope of only 1 – 1 1/2 months till SC for Mac.

The suspense is growing, but I can assure you this, stay tuned to MacGamez and you will know ALL the details on the release of Starcraft, 3rd party information and much more.

This post was taken from MacGaming.com

Sid Meier is the creative force behind the Civilization series. He’s one of the best-known and most well-respected creative minds in game development today.

Meier’s newest effort is currently under development by Firaxis. It’s called Sid Meier’s Alpha Centauri. The game takes the next logical step after Civilization. In the Civilization series, it was your job to build a civilization from its first steps as an agrarian society all the way to being a space-faring civilization. This time, humanity (or what’s left of it, anyway) has moved to the stars, and it’s your job to build a civilization on a habitable planet in the Alpha Centauri system.

So far, unfortunately, the developer hasn’t given any indication that a Mac version will be forthcoming. As a result, Mac game fan Clifton Cartwright has begun his own on-line petition to bring Alpha Centauri to the Macintosh. Cartwright’s petition is very simple- you input your full name and email address in an online form and click the Submit button- it should only take a few seconds. Please visit the site today and participate, if you’d like to see the Mac’s choice of strategy and simulation games continue to improve.

Pangea Software has released a new version of their game Nanosaur and it can be downloaded at their Nanosaur homepage . Nanosaur is a freeware 3D game where you control a dinosaur from the future to save 3 species of dinosaurs from extinction.

In other news;

It’s official: The sequel to the controversial racer is coming to N64 next year Months after SCi and Stainless Software announced their plans to bring Carmageddon II to the Nintendo 64, Interplay has finally confirmed that it will be publishing the game in the US next winter (1999). Although the wait seems incredibly long, players looking for a “bloody good time” will probably not find any alternatives to Carmageddon on the N64. The violent racer will offer multiplayer competitions on polygonal tracks with the ability to wound, kill, and dismember pedestrians and other characters populating the 3D worlds. Charming. Based on Carmageddon II, the 64-bit version will include 30 new weapons of destruction, 12 fully destructible landscapes, five tracks and and improved physics engine over it’s predecessor.

This post was taken from MacGaming.com

GT Interactive, the parent company of Mac game publisher MacSoft and edutainment publisher Humongous Entertainment, announced yesterday that the U.S. Court of Appeals ruled in GT’s favor in a recent case involving publisher Micro Star.

The lawsuit stemmed from Micro Star’s publication of a CD-ROM called “Nuke It.” Distributed as a retail software product, this disc contained user-created add on levels for GT Interactive’s popular Duke Nukem 3D product. The levels were culled from various on-line sources and compiled on the CD by Micro Star. Such activity is colloquially referred to as “shovelware:” the act of creating new software by compiling previously released or otherwise freely available products. While GT Interactive does not dissuade users from developing such conversions- in fact, it implicitly encourages such activity by developing and publicly distributing editing tools to do so- its licensing arrangements and US copyright law don’t permit publishers like Micro Star to profit from the effort unless they are doing so with GT Interactive’s direct approval.

The court’s ruling affirmed that Micro Star violated GT Interactive’s copyright on the Duke Nukem franchise. The court also upheld GT Interactive’s exclusive right to produce and distribute derivative products under existing US copyright law.

Sid Meier’s Civilization has been associated with Microprose for years.Consider by strategy enthusiasts (like me) to be one of the best genres of games on the market, availabel on any platform. In Civilization you start out as a primitive civilization and work your way up to a futuristic society, along you the way, you as ruler of your civlization guide your society to develop technology, a political system, military strategy, infrastructure, religion, diplomacy. Almost all aspects of the development of civilization are touched upon. Beginning this past year, MacSoft licensed Civilization II and Civilization II Gold from Microprose for distribution to Mac users.

Unfortunately, the Civilization marque has gone through some changes. The newest Civilization Game: Civilization III Call to Power will be published by Activision. Activisions loyalism to the mac gaming community is somewhat blurry, and and doubtful. There is a big chance that CTP will not be developed or licensed for the Macintosh at all. This is an important time to show Activision there support for the Civilization Genre and that there is a very active base of civilization users on the mac community. At present, the best way to do so is to participate in one of the online discussion threads that Activision has set up for Civilization fans and to stay up to date with MacRequest and MacGamez.com for more details on how you can help bring Civilzation III: Call to Power to the Mac.

To all owners of Apple PowerMac G3 Desktop and PowerBook Computers with internal 56K flex modems.

Are you interested in running Globalfax with this configuration? If so, Boca Global Inc. wants to hear from you. A special eMail address has been setup to get feedback from users with these configurations. It is important to Global Village to both meet market demands in addition to implementing thorough testing and QA on all versions of GlobalFax. For this reason your input on this issue will be very important and appreciated.

Please write to Global Village at (G3feedback@globalvillage.com). Put YES in the subject header if you would want to purchase GlobalFax for $39.95 to run on your internal Global Village modem that came bundled with your computer from Apple.