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Quakeworld for Mac!
In a recent mac gaming newsgroup post, Mark Adams of Westlake Interactive let us know of this interesting tidbit:

We do have the code, and we're reviewing it to see how much work it will be to do. Hopefully it won't be terribly complex because we'd have to do nearly for free since id doesn't want anyone to sell or charge anything for QW.

By early next week we should know whether or not mac gamers will EVER be seeing Quakeworld...

Shadow Warrior 3Dfx Finally Released
Well it looks like MacSoft finally got on the ball after Mark Adams' recent post and released the Shadow Warrior 3Dfx patch, also released is a new Shadow Warrior 1.0.1 update. I've tried out the 3Dfx patch and had no problems, in fact it looked wonderful! One note though, the new 3Dfx version require a minimum of 24mb or free RAM.
You can download the 3Dfx patch here and the 1.0.1 update here

Shadow Warrior 3Dfx Patch Update
Mark Adams posted the following note to a mac gaming news group the other day:
I sent a final version of the patch to Macsoft a couple weeks ago, and haven't heard anything from them. They haven't told me anything that needs to be fixed that is preventing them from releasing it, so I'm not sure why it isn't out. I went ahead and fixed a minor bug I noticed in my own testing and sent another 'final' version to them a couple days ago, and still haven't heard back.
Sometimes the speed things go frustrates me as much as you...

We're contacting MacSoft directly to find out just what is going on here...

Top Gun!
I've been playing around with MacSoft's Top Gun: Fire At Will the last couple days, and it looks great! It's not nearly as complicated a flightsime as any of the Hornets but, I've found the gameplay to be much more fun! I'm having trouble taking screenshots from the game so until I figure that out, here's a shot from MacSoft's web site:

MGA's New News Schedule
I think it's time I give some clarification of the MGA's news schedule; the news will be updated Monday thru Friday at least 5 times a week! But just starting is the MGA Weekend Update, from now one we will have Sunday "Weekend Updates" to keep up with the weekend news happenings. The Weekend updates will be posted Sunday morning around 9:30 am Pacific time. Monday thru Friday the news will most likely be updated by 8:00 am pacific or on some occasions late late the night before... Questions? E-mail me, ddreyer@sprynet.com

World Without Borders Game Week Concludes
World Without Borders game week caht will conclude tonight with the following guests:
Thursday, 12 march:
6:00 pm pacific /9:00 pm eastern- Jeffrey W. Hester, President of Ground Zero Software, Inc.
7:00 pm pacific/10:00 pm eastern- Nate Birkholz, MacSoft

Diablo Update
The MacGamers Ledge has posted the following anonymous report by one of the MacDiablo testers, the tester have received the final version to test:
According to MGL's anonymous source, everything, including Battle.net play, is solid and once they iron out a few AppleTalk-related and modem dial-up bugs, the game will be released to manufacturing. Unless a nasty bug rears its ugly head in this latest version, we believe a release is expected within 1-2 weeks (that's a "release to manufacturing" prediction, not "on-the-shelf" release).

Yet Another World Without Borders Game Week
This week is another games week on the internet chat zone, World Without Borders, guests include:
Tuesday, 10 march:
6:00 pm pacific/9:00 pm eastern- Dan Stein, PlayPak Systems
7:00 pm pacific/10:00 pm eastern- Ambrosia Software, Inc.

Thursday, 12 march:
6:00 pm pacific /9:00 pm eastern- Jeffrey W. Hester, President of Ground Zero Software, Inc.
7:00 pm pacific/10:00 pm eastern- Nate Birkholz, MacSoft

Quakeworld Announcment...
In a recent mac gaming newsgroup post, MacSoft spokesperson Nate Birkholz gave us this message:
...we should have an announcement about Quakeworld one way or the other in the next couple of weeks. This time I'm promising. <cringe>

New Reviews at the MGA!
We've posted some new reviews in the last couple days, MacSoft's Deadlock and the Duke Nukem 3D add-on Duke it out in D.C. Also I'm working on a review of MacSoft's just released Top Gun: Fire at Will, I'll post a couple of preview shoots when I get the time. Stay Tuned...

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