Upcoming OS X Games to Look For (2010-2011)

As a Mac user I am happy that more and more games are coming to OS X. But, let's be honest, most of the games on that list have no chance of running faster than a slideshow.

RAGE? Civ 5? Remember id's last brand-new technology? It pushed SLI'ed PCs to the absolute limits and then some, and it took forever before everyone could comfortably run their tech. What chance does a Mac have, with its very limited selection of video cards (none of which can be considered top-end)? Similarly, Civilization IV, strategy game as it may be, taxed the hell out of the PCs of its era when it came out... Macs don't stand a chance.

I just installed Team Fortress 2 on my Mac and have been playing it, but I'm running screaming back to Windows. The same hardware yields very different performance between the two OSes, there's a lot of work to be done yet.

The only two games I'm positive about are Starcraft 2 and Diablo 3 - Blizzard has long made sure that their games scale down gracefully. The SC2 beta runs fine on a Mac... if you tone down the graphics. I'm not sure how long we'd have to wait after release before we get a Mac that can play the thing at maximum settings.

I've got a question: is that capital "For" in the title correct? It's been bugging me, because while I think in this particular context it's an actual meaningful part of the title and should be capitalized, but at the same time, I'm so unused to seeing a capital "For."

Let's just hope that meanwhile the developers got it right and those games can be installed on case-sensitive filesystems. IMO this is a huge problem with game software on OS X, even Steam f* it up when recently they approached the Mac.

This is not HN material. And I say this as someone who upvoted several articles on Steam and Portal coming to the Mac. It's a fine line; Portal is a technically remarkable game that many hackers love. This article mentions Portal 2, but there's no "news" to it, and certainly no depth. It's just a list.