Braid - Greenhouse Interactive

Braid enjoyed a warm welcome when it was released on the Xbox 360, so we're glad to see it has made it onto the Mac. It's filled to the brim with platform action mixed with some of the most devious ... read more at MacUserUK

Commander: Napoleon at War - Freeverse

It’s easy to pick on the French. It’s been, what, nearly a couple of hundred years since the French military saw any real glory? A similar thing can be said about turn-based strategy games, whose glory days seem like a lifetime ago... read more at Macworld

Prince of Persia - TransGaming

The latest edition of Prince of Persia, released this past year for game consoles, is now on the Mac. You can thank TransGaming for the quick turnaround time... read more at Macworld

Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3 - TransGaming

Armored attack bears. Time traveling Russians. Sarcastic female commandos. Yes, the mirthfully bizarre and chronologically perplexing Command & Conquer: Red Alert series is back... read more at Macworld

Multiwinia - Ambrosia Software

The sequel to Darwinia, Multiwinia is a 3-D real-time strategy (RTS) game unlike any other. You play in a computer mainframe against your fellow 2-D digital life forms (Darwinians) in a pixilated war for supremacy... read more at Macworld

Emerald City Confidential - PlayFirst

Like any imaginary universe worth its weight in fairy dust, the land of Oz didn’t grind to a halt after the events chronicled in The Wizard of Oz. Time marches on, things change, and the Oz that’s revisited in Emerald City Confidential... read more at MacLife

Multiwinia - Ambrosia

Ambrosia has published some of the Mac's best-loved games, so a new release is always something of an occasion. Then again, Multiwinia isn't exactly a Mac game, being a port of a Windows title by Introversion Software... read more at MacUserUK

Fate - Wild Tangent

Fans of dungeon crawlers, fantastical adventure, and monster killing will find Fate a welcome arrival to the Mac platform. A dungeon crawler, for the uninitiated, is a genre of role-playing game... read more at Macworld

CSI: Hard Evidence - Ubisoft

Looking back over this series of games on consoles and the PC, it becomes apparent that CSI Crime Scene Investigation has been notable for its mediocrity throughout its first three iterations... read more at MacLife

Black and White 2 - Feral Interactive

The plot of Black and White 2 begins as a “pure prayer” beckons you to return to your tribe of Greeks. You find that your people’s city is being ransacked by Aztecs, and through the course of the game you must confront the Aztecs, Norse, and Japanese... read more at Macworld

Monster Truck Nitro - RedLynx

Eschewing raw power and the destructive nature of monster truck rallies for timing, skill, and nuance, Monster Truck Nitro is a different kind of monster truck game. RedLynx is most known for developing Trials 2, a retro-style motorcycle platform game... read more at Macworld

Rayman Raving Rabbids - UbiSoft

When the Nintendo Wii first debuted, Ubisoft’s Rayman Raving Rabbids turned into something of a sleeper hit. The game featured the popular platform action game star Rayman in a sequence of mini-games that emphasized the Wii’s novel control system... read more at Macworld

Aquaria - Ambrosia Software

Side-scrolling action adventure games are a dying breed. Big publishing houses stick to 3-D graphics and fashionable genres, but side-scrolling action games have a rich history. Super Mario Bros. broke through to American audiences when I was a kid... read more at Macworld

Football Manager 2009 - Sega

For armchair managers everywhere, Sega's best-selling sporting simulation has become as much a part of the football landscape as a Sky Sports subscription. With a choice of 5000 teams to manage from leagues all over Europe and elsewhere, you'd forgive the game's developers... read more at MacUserUK

Spore Creepy & Cute Parts Pack - Electronic Arts

Spore is packed to the gills with ways to customize creatures. But if the built-in menagerie of animal limbs doesn’t quite add up to the exact critter you want, the Creepy & Cute Parts Pack add-on mixes in a few dozen alternatives. It requires the full Spore game... read more at MacLife

Kivi's Underworld - Soldak Entertainment

All the news on TV is bad, the economy stinks, and it seems like it’s getting harder and harder to find a low-cost evening of entertainment. Might we suggest some pleasant hack-and-slashery to unwind after a hard day at the office? Kivi’s Underworld is a single-player RPG that its developers call casual... read more at MacLife

Aquaria - Ambrosia Software

With its color-splashed backgrounds and gorgeous, hand-painted 2D sprites, Aquaria might look like a kids’ game, or a casual one. But like its ocean setting, this fantasy action-adventure game is miles deeper than what you see on the surface... read more at MacLife

City of Heroes - NCsoft

City of Heroes is a massive multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) that takes the hero mythos and expands it into an expansive metropolitan world where you can fight crime, join a superhero team, and become the superhero you’ve always dreamed of being. The Mac edition not only comes with the original City of Heroes, but the devious sequel... read more at Macworld

FusionFall - Cartoon Network

FusionFall does a lot of things right. As a browser-based game, more people can enjoy it and it doesn’t have demanding system requirements. The graphics aren’t spectacular, but on par with similar MMOs of the last couple of years. The game is easy to use... read more at Macworld

Lego Indiana Jones: The Original Adventures - Feral Interactive

Growing up, I was obsessed with Lego blocks. I’d spend hours pouring over the tiny brightly colored bricks. I also loved the original three Indiana Jones films (the fourth film I refuse to acknowledge). I saw Lego Indiana Jones: The Original Adventures as the melding of some of my favorite childhood memories... read more at Macworld

Geneforge 5: Overthrow - Spiderweb Software

Geneforge 5: Overthrow is the final installment in Spiderweb Software’s Geneforge saga, a series of fantasy-themed role-playing games. The Geneforge saga features enriched story lines, open-ended gameplay, and multiple endings, but lacks graphical sophistication or a quality soundtrack... read more at Macworld

Penny Arcade Adventures: On The Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness, Episode Two - Hothead Games

The second installment of the critics-turned-designers’ Penny Arcade Adventures serial comes off like a great band releasing a good second album that sounds just like their first. We still found the game’s groove. The humorous writing, adventure-style problem-solving, and concise game mechanics are back... read more at MacLife

Pirates of the Caribbean Online - Walt Disney Internet Group

Pirates of the Caribbean is a MMORPG that puts you in the bootstraps of a male or female pirate tasked with helping the iconic Captain Jack Sparrow take on the evil undead pirate Jolly Roger. To drive home the fact that the game is tied to the movies, the opening minutes of the game introduce you to pixilated versions of Will Turner and Elizabeth Swan... read more at Macworld

World of Goo - 2D Boy

World of Goo is a trippy puzzle game that pushes your knowledge of physics to its gooey limits in a post-modernistic setting. Fun, quirky, and highly-addictive, World of Goo is one of the most entertaining puzzle games to come to the Mac in years... read more at Macworld

ToCA Race Driver 3 - Feral Interactive

ToCA Race Driver 3 lets you race in virtually every professional racing circuit in the history of the sport with unrivaled vehicular and course accuracy. Want to race in the Daytona 500? No problem. How about the World Sprint Car series? Sure... read more at Macworld

Penny Arcade Adventures: Episode Two - Hothead Games

Fruit-fornicating robots, drunken phonograph players, and rich people who shoot lasers out of their monocles. Welcome to the world of Penny Arcade, an insanely popular Web comic that skewers the video game industry with a healthy mix of satire, absurdity, and slapstick... read more at Macworld

Mytopia - Mytopia.com

Still in beta, Mytopia is a set of casual puzzle, card, board, and casino games available on Facebook (plus MySpace, Friendster, Bebo, and Hi5), as well as on www.mytopia.com. It’s also coming soon to the iPhone and other smartphones... read more at MacLife

Make Me A Celebrity - Facebook

Facebook features several RPG-style apps, but our favorite is Mesmo TV’s Make Me a Celebrity, just because there’s so much you can do. Work menial show business jobs to build your fame, hit the clubs to find beautiful people to add to your entourage, spend money on cool stuff to increase your “hotness” quotient... read more at MacLife

World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King - Blizzard

Like the first expansion, Wrath of the Lich King (WOTLK) adds a new continent (Northrend) to explore, and it raises the level cap from 70 to 80. But that’s not all—WOTLK also introduces the playable Hero class, player-controlled flying mounts, a new Inscription profession, new mission and quest content, and even an improved graphics engine... read more at MacLife

CSI: Miami - Gameloft

CSI: Miami plays out almost the same way as an episode of the TV series. We suppose that’s good, although you don’t have to pay any more attention to the game than you would the dull show. Important details get repeated many times, fancy gadgets quickly become mundane, and there’s no real sense of mystery... read more at MacLife

Mystery Mansion Pinball - Gameloft

Mystery Mansion Pinball dresses up an original table with all kinds of flourishes. Targets react with voice clips and sound effects. A roost of vultures perches outside of play, watching the action. Quick, simple videogame interludes—as seen in recent pinball tables—ask you to match on-screen prompts like Simon Says... read more at MacLife

Wheel of Fortune Deluxe and Jeopardy Deluxe - Freeverse

Freeverse’s Wheel of Fortune Deluxe and Jeopardy Deluxe are solid contestants trying to win your gaming time, but we doubt either will make it to the tournament of champions... read more at MacLife

Jade Empire: Special Edition - BioWare

Jade Empire: Special Edition, a game that originated on the Xbox, made its way to the PC in 2007 and finally ended up on the Mac this past summer, is most definitely a Bioware game... read more at Macworld

Sid Meier's Pirates! - Feral Interactive

Shiver me timbers, just in time for the tail end of the pirate trend comes the Mac port of 2004’s Windows remake of Sid Meier’s Pirates! (The original, groundbreaking 1987 game lived on the Commodore 64 and Apple II, hitting the Macintosh in 1988.) But this is no cheap cash-in: It’s a rollicking high-seas adventure through gorgeous environments... read more at MacLife

Prince of Persia: The Two Thrones - Ubisoft

Originally released on other platforms in 2005, Prince of Persia: The Two Thrones has finally arrived for the Mac. While the release may have been a bit delayed, it's still an entertaining (but technically flawed) new chapter in a franchise as old as Mac gaming... read more at Macworld

Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare - Aspyr Media

The first-person shooter genre is pretty stale in the gaming world these days. Uninspired gunplay, interchangeable macho marine protagonists, and clichéd stories gave rise to legendary titles like Doom and Wolfenstein 3D, but now such devices have diluted the genre. Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare draws its influence not only from landmarks of the genre, but also from Tom Clancy novels, international politics, and the realism of modern warfare... read more at Macworld

FlatOut 2 - Virtual Programming

A fun game is fun, no matter how long it takes to get to the Mac. So if you’re going to start whining about how FlatOut 2 has been around forever, you can shut the hell up right now, because I don’t want to hear it. FlatOut 2 is finally available for the Mac, and Virtual Programming earns a special reward in heaven for bringing it to us... read more at Macworld

Battlestations: Midway - Midway

Released on the Xbox 360 and PC more than a year ago, this wartime combat game centres on the Battle of Midway. It blends strategy and arcade combat, but doesn't fall victim to the impenetrable or repetitive nature of hardcore titles in either genre... read more at MacUserUK

Spore - Electronic Arts

Spore sprouts a new world, growing and changing in unexpected ways. Part game, part design program, and always playful, Spore leads you on a journey from tiny creature to colonizer of the galaxy... read more at MacLife

The Princess Bride - Worldwide Biggies

After more than 20 years, Rob Reiner’s 1987 fractured fairy tale The Princess Bride holds up as a fun and funny movie for the whole family. Now Worldwide Biggies has brought the story—including the voice talents of Robin Wright Penn (Buttercup), Wallace Shawn (Vizzini), and Mandy Patinkin (Inigo Montoya)—to your Mac... read more at MacLife

Crossover Games - CodeWeavers

Mac users have traditionally drawn the short straw when it comes to games. The Mac has plenty of good titles, but not nearly the variety as Windows. With Macs gaining popularity and market share, bigger game publishers like EA have been releasing games for Mac OS X, but many others are holding out. This is where CrossOver Games comes in... read more at MacLife

The Graveyard - Tale of Tales

For a game about death, The Graveyard sure feels lively. Your character may not raid tombs, but she does shuffle past them with a convincing limp. Meanwhile, transparent fuzz wafts on the breeze, tiny birds zoom in and out of view, and soft shadows gather under moving clouds... read more at MacLife