Games

The Macintosh is not a gaming machine. I understand that. But that doesn’t mean there aren’t great games to be played. Here are some hard core gift ideas for hard core Mac gamers.

Get your trigger finger ready. Ambrosia Software is selling $123 worth of Mac games for only $19 from now through December 24th.

Originally planned for one week only, Ambrosia Software is now putting all of its iPhone/iPod Touch games on sale for 99 cents throughout the entire month of December.

What’s great about Touchgrind is that it’s simple enough to immediately be fun, but complicated enough to require practice. Thankfully, that practice is fun, and possibly even rewarding.

Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare is brutal to an unsettling degree. It doesn’t glorify war, and it doesn’t even really lionize soldiers. If this were a movie script, John Wayne and Chuck Norris would run from it in terror.

The controls in Flick Bowling for the iPhone/iPod touch are minimal, and the features are scant, but it’s one of the best games available for showing off your iPhone and having fun doing it.

Pirates is a fantastic blend of genres, requiring just enough strategy and skill to keep it challenging while providing just enough adventure to keep the game moving.

Song Summoner: The Unsung Heroes is the first iPod game that rises above the casual gamer audience to appeal to hard core gamers.

It’s not long into Fable: The Lost Chapters before you realize you’re in for something different.

Although not as hyped as Super Monkey Ball, Crash Bandicoot Nitro Kart 3D from the App Store provides just as much fun.

Wingnuts Moto Racer is a racing game, of sorts. It’s actually more of a time trial game, as the point is to race through checkpoints in order to…save a cat?

This game is very fun once you get past the issue of mastering the controls. The graphics are top notch, and the levels are entertaining and challenging.