Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, Gaming, Software, Odds and ends

First EA, and now gaming giant Ubisoft has inked a deal with Transgaming to wrap their titles in Cider and port them by to the Mac. Which seems like great news — Ubisoft has a huge number of quality titles, and bringing those to the Mac must be great for gamers who appreciate a better operating system. But not so fast.

First things first, Cider hasn’t precisely proven itself in terms of making great games, or even ports for that matter. And apparently Ubisoft is taking it slow — rather than bring us games like Prince of Persia, Assassin’s Creed or the great Rainbow Six Vegas

series, we’re getting… wait for it… Catz and Dogz. Oh, and CSI: Hard Evidence, which was hardly a blockbuster on game shelves.

It’s definitely good news that Mac gamers are getting more to play, but whether that is all we’re going to get, they can keep it. whether they wanted to port us Far Cry 2 when it comes out, or possibly even the long-awaited Beyond Good and Evil 2 whenever it’s done, awesome. But whether all we’re going to get is years-old bottom-of-the-barrel crapware, we’ll stick with original Mac game developers, thanks.

[via Big Download]

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