Gaming has had a diminished presence at Macworld Expo in recent years . But that ’s not stopping us from assembling a panel of Mac gaming luminaries for this special Expo edition of the Macworld Podcast .

fall in me and assistant editor Chris Holt as we babble out to Bruce Morrison ofFreeverse Software , Ned Coker ofCCP Games , and Lucas Smithen ofTransGaming . We ’re joined by and by in the podcast by David Stephen ofFeral Interactive .

We talk about developing game for the Mac as well as the iPhone . We also look at the futurity of Macworld Expo from the view of gambling companies , and we appraise what the changes to the MacBook ’s graphical central processor have meant to Mac gaming .

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Show Notes

We mention a number of game during the podcast . Bruce Morrison talks about the iPhone games Freeverse is working on , including Slots Racer , Days of Thunder , Flick Baseball , and route of Ruin .

CCP game pass water EVE Online , a massively - multiplayer online game set in quad . It came to the Mac with the help of TransGaming ’s Cider rendering technology . Another TransGaming effort , City of Heroes , go forth from beta this hebdomad .

David Stephen talks about a identification number of recent and upcoming Feral passing including Sid Meier ’s Pirates , Rome : Total War , the lately released Lego Indiana Jones , and Lego Batman .

Our MacBook discussion centers around last fall ’s addition of Nvidia 9400 M graphics to the MacBook , which improved the performance of graphic - intensive games on Apple ’s consumer laptop .