Welcome back to another episode of the TGS Scenecast. Episode #37 is packed full of all sorts of great stuff like news, what we been playing, and new releases. We also have a couple of good talks regarding Steam on Mac and EA's "online pass" program. So kick off your shoes and relax to Scenecast Episode #37!

http://www.thegamerscene.com/?p=1672

Having a good chuckle at Dits asking Fly about Kentucky. When I hear of Kentucky I think of Horses, Horses, Horses, and Goldfinger.

lol I'm convinced that he lives in the desert with a cow and chickens! I would probably stop listening now Xan...

lol, great episode guys, thank you.

One of you definitely needs to get some WD40 on their chair though. Or was that the chickens squeeking?

Good episode, guys. It's always great to hear Dits talking bollocks about the Mac... go get him Xan!

That noise is from Dits, I noticed it when recording with Silent and Nokkon. I reckon he has some kind of Fritzl basement set up going on, you know what them Norfolk folk are like...

I don't need to. He lays out plenty of rope for hanging himself.

To answer Fly's question COD4:MW is available on Mac. Published by ASPYR http://www.aspyr.com/product/info/88.

Amazon normally stock a lot of Mac games, including the likes of Bioshock, Brothers in Arms Hell's Highway, etc. These tend to be ports released about 1 year after the PC version. Things are getting better with EA, Blizzard and Ubisoft now releasing more and more games on both platforms.

Game & Gamestation do have Mac games but then tend to be the dual format games like Football Manager, Spore, WoW, etc.

To answer Dits question about OpenGL and OpenCL; the latest versions of OpenGL are equivalent of DX10.1 and there are a number of tools to port from one to the other. OpenGL/CL is also found in the iPhone OS, Android/Chrome and PS3 OS, so expect more indie games leading on that platform. The recent OpenGL conference was attended by Microsoft, Apple, Google and Sony, so things are changing in this area.

Personally, I just play strategy and puzzle games (plus WoW) on my laptop, so Steam is a convenient new delivery mechanism for them - plus I got Civ IV & Torchlight free as I already owned the Steam PC version. I like to play games on the move or in my lounge so the MacBook Pro is the best option for me. I did almost get the Alienware mx11 but the new MacBook Pro has pretty much equal net performance.

lol.. Desert cows and chickens! Too funny... Although the folks across the street did just bring home two chickens yesterday. Kentucky is more rolling hills of trees, farm fields (tabbaco is huge here), and tons of horse farms.



Compared to out west like say Las Vegas or something that is a lot more dry.

Forget to mention that I loved the smegging intro music this week... I'm guessing that came from Dits' music collection.

hehe yup, was waiting until someone noticed the theme

Portal is 1/5 LESS likely to crash on a Mac than on a PC. Gabe Newell expressed how pleasantly surprised he was by this.