City of Heroes: Heroes Head to Macs

Szark

NCsoft has announced that City of Heroes will soon be available for Mac users and will be open for public beta testing when Issue 13: Power and Responsibility launches.

SEATTLE and TORONTO, Ontario, October 30, 2008—NCsoft®, the world's premier publisher and developer of massively multiplayer online (MMO) games, today announced a partnership with TransGaming, Inc. (TSX-V: TNG) to bring their award-winning City of Heroes® franchise to the Apple® Macintosh®. The game has been enabled for the Mac by TransGaming, a leading developer of portability technologies for the electronic entertainment industry. City of Heroes for Mac will be available for public beta testing with the release of the game's thirteenth expansion, Issue 13: Power and Responsibility later this fall. The official launch will occur pre-holiday this year with a special digital-only Mac edition of City of Heroes, available across all NCsoft West consumer territories.

"Players will soon be able to join the battle of good versus evil in the most popular comic book MMO on both the PC and Mac platforms...and in the same game world," commented Brian Clayton, executive producer of City of Heroes for NCsoft West. "Given Mac's fame as a platform for creative people and City of Heroes' unprecedented character customization options, I think City of Heroes is a perfect fit for the Mac gaming community."

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Sevenwind

I think that is awesome news! Hopefully it will not be the only NCSOFT title ported to the mac.