Blizzard's Upcoming Game 'Overwatch' Won't Be Coming to OS X


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while game developer blizzard has long-standing history of bringing games os x in addition windows, developer today confirmed @ blizzcon fan convention not bringing new game, overwatch, os x, according polygon.

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overwatch game director jeff kaplan confirmed news, acknowledging company has longstanding support apple's computers. however, kaplan says company focused efforts on windows due "technology behind macs."
kaplan didn't specify mac technology making challenging blizzard make game os x, apple's support graphics technologies such metal , opengl may part of reason. of developers committed metal, such adobe, have backpedaled bit work new technology. apple has been criticized not adopting recent versions of opengl, heavily relied upon in modern game development

recently, blizzard launched free-to-play multiplayer online battle arena game heroes of storm mac os x on june 2, 2015.

(thanks, teyla!)

article link: blizzard's upcoming game 'overwatch' won't coming os x
 

it wouldn't run smooth on intel graphics anyway. :d
 


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