Apple opens floodgates for Mac gaming

New tools make it easy to port popular PC games.

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Leander Kahney
June 07, 2023

When Apple switched to its own silicon, some feared that games on the Mac would suffer.

Most game publishers target the massive PC market, and because Macs ran on Intel x86 chips prior to the Apple silicon transition, porting games was relatively easy.

Some observers thought the switch to Apple’s own processors would kill that, because converting games required complicated recompiling to the new platform.

But Apple just changed the conversation entirely with a new Game Porting Toolkit that could open the floodgates to PC games on Mac.

The new software makes it very easy for publishers to convert their games to Apple silicon.

It’s an exciting prospect; we have the details here from WWDC23.

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