The MacTrack – iPhone, iPod, iPod Touch and Mac News

Hutto, Texas – Macgamestore, In partnership with WildTangent, today announced the release of FATE for the Macintosh on its web site. FATE is a fully 3D fantasy action role-playing game where the player takes his/her character through progressively difficult levels of a dungeon, fighting monsters, completing quests, collecting valuable items and gold, and improving the character’s attributes and skills along the way.

In FATE you can play as a youthful boy or girl, always accompanied by a little dog or cat. You journey through limitless caverns, dungeons, mines, and tunnels in search of adventure. Each level is randomly generated with countless surprises, magical items, and weapons to discover. Combat more than 100 different monster types, with 400 item types in richly detailed 3D dungeon tile-sets. Gain fame by completing quests and defeating legendary creatures.

Features
* Quick AND Immersive gameplay! Play for 15 minutes or for hours
* Richly detailed 3D graphics
* Journey through limitless caverns, dungeons, mines, and tunnels in search of adventure!
* Each level is randomly generated with countless surprises, magical items and weapons to discover
* Combat: Over 100 different monster types to encounter and battle!
* Cast Spells: Defend, attack, heal or escape using countless magical spells
* Collect: Buy/Sell gathered treasures to improve capabilities, or dare to gamble large sums on items that may contain special powers
* Choose your pet! Select a dog or cat to join you on your quests and transform it into powerful creatures
* Gain fame by completing quests and defeating legendary creatures

FATE requires a PowerPC G4 or later and Mac OS X 10.3.9 or later. A free universal binary demo version of the game is available for download from the Macgamestore web site. The full version can be unlocked for $19.95 (USD).

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Launched in 2005, Macgamestore.com is the most popular Mac gaming store on the Internet with over 600 Mac games available for purchase. Macgamestore is also the leader in digital download games and the number one web site for casual Macintosh games.

Portland, OR – LaCie today announced the 4big Quadra, the most complete four-bay RAID solution for small servers, creative pro workstations or offices that need large storage and backup capacity, superior speed and advanced security. Offering capacities of up to 6TB (6000GB) and a versatile hot-swap feature, the 4big Quadra supports seven RAID modes including RAID 0 and RAID 5 for optimal performance and data protection.

Thanks to its native RAID controller that conserves computer resources, the 4big offers burst transfer rates reaching up to 200-230MB/s* through eSATA 3Gbits. This solution integrates perfectly with most applications that demand high speed, such as photo processing, audio/video projects, pre-press, and even HD post-production. Compatible with Time Machine(TM), the 4big also comes with Genie Backup Manager Pro(TM) and Intego Backup Manager Pro(TM) for customizable backup and computer recovery.


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Walnut Creek, California – net4mac is a social network built exclusively for Mac users. This is a powerful internet service that allows you to make new friends sharing the same passion for the Mac platform, build new professional relationships, create groups of interests and much more. We are very proud to announce today the new version of net4mac for the iPhone.

Version 1.0 for iPhone allows you to connect to the service, read your messages, send a new message, browse profiles and search members matching your preferences. The user interface is fully optimized for the iPhone. More features will be added in future versions. It’s just the beginning. The iPhone version costs only $4.99 (USD). All updates will be free and we have a strong pipeline for new features.

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Meadville, Pennsylvania – Nuclear Nova Software is proud to introduce GL Golf 1.0, their award winning 3D golfing game for iPhone and iPod Touch. By leveraging the iPhone’s unique abilities and interface, this Open GL game offers a realistic physics system and smooth, fluid graphics for compelling game-play.

Up to four players can golf five unique courses. Everything in a real game of golf is included, such as water hazards, sand traps, trees, bushes, wind, four seasons, different times to play, and much more. Other unique features include game saving, 3 difficulty modes, mulligans, as well as different sets of clubs.

Supported Languages:
* US English

System Requirements:
* iPhone, iPhone 3G or iPod Touch 2.0

Pricing and Availability:

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London, United Kingdom – The Escapers have released their first iPhone product, an addictive and infuriating puzzle game, Super Chimp Surprise! Super Chimp Surprise! uses cool sound effects and funky graphics to make journeys to work a little less boring.

Chimp! uses many features of the iPhone to make the best gaming experience possible, and unlike some iPhone games, your progress is saved if you switch applications.

To play Super Chimp Surprise!, all you need to do is switch a tile with an adjacent tile, to create sequences of 3 or more tiles. Sounds simple? Try it now and find out how tricky it can be! Extra bonus points can be had for performing many matches at the same time, or by matching 4, 5 or if you really try, 6 tiles.

Super Chimp Surprise! was created exclusively for the iPhone and iPod Touch, making full use of it’s full colour display, hardware graphics acceleration and amazing touch screen.

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