Warhammer Online For The Mac

Mythic Entertainment, an Electronic Arts studio, today announced that the critically acclaimed MMORPG, Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning (WAR), is being developed for the Mac computer platform and is currently being offered in beta version. The Mac version of WAR is scheduled for official release in the fall of 2009, when players on both platforms will be able to battle and quest together on the same servers.

The beta of the Mac version of Warhammer Online will allow current players to download a client to their Mac computers and play with their live game accounts. Players who do not have an existing live account, but are interested in playing WAR on the Mac, will be able to participate in the beta version of WAR on Mac by downloading a 10-day beta trial account. As part of the WAR Mac beta event, players who participate will receive an exclusive title and trophy reward for their characters within the game.

“The MMORPG audience continues to expand, and that means gamers eager to experience WAR aren’t all playing on a PC,” said Jeff Hickman, Executive Producer of Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning. “We want as many players as possible to experience the glory of Realm vs. Realm combat, and bringing WAR to the Mac makes this an exciting reality.”

WAR for the Mac is made possible using the CiderTM Portability Engine from TransGaming (TSX-V: TNG) that acts as a “wrapper” around the game software, enabling it to run seamlessly on Intel-based Macs. TransGaming’s Cider technology allows Mythic Entertainment to rapidly enable and deploy WAR for the Mac, providing a new high quality gaming experience to the ever-growing Mac gaming community.

“The availability of WAR on Mac is an outstanding example of the caliber of games being deployed for the Mac gaming community,” commented Vikas Gupta, CEO & President of TransGaming. “Mythic Entertainment has created an incredible game and TransGaming is thrilled they have chosen our advanced Cider technology to launch WAR for the Mac.”

Minimum System Requirements

• Mac OS X 10.5.3 Leopard or higher

• Intel Core Duo Processor

• 2 Gigabyte RAM

• ATI X1600 or NVidia 7300 GT with 128 MB of Video RAM

• At least 15 GB of hard drive space for installation.

• This game will not run on PowerPC (G3/G4/G5) based Mac systems (PowerMac).

• Supported Video Cards
  • ATI Radeon(TM) series
    • X1600, X1900, HD 2400, HD 2600, 3870
  • NVIDIA GeForce series
    • 7300, 7600, 8600, 8800
    • This game will not run on the GMA 950 class of integrated video cards.

To download the beta version of WAR for Mac or the 10-day beta trial, please visit: www.warhammeronline.com/mac.

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