Download Colin McRae Rally for Mac (Demo).

Do you remember Colin McRae Rally for Windows? Did you spent hours for playing it? You can now play it on Mac. Mac OS X is a great OS (maybe even better than Windows), and this game shows you that when you think about computers, you shouldn't think only of Windows. There are many other better operating systems.

Unfortunately, it's only a demo version. It says that it's 70% of the final product, but I think that it's only about 35-40% of the final product. The game is very limited, only a few options being available. Anyway, the game moves perfectly of my MacBook White (2.0 GHz, 2GB of RAM and nVIDIA 9400M).

But, avoid playing continuously for hours. The game pushes the fan to high speeds from the first minutes of playing, so it will put a real stress on cooling system if you play it for hours.

More details and download here: http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/games/demos_updates/colinmcraerallymac.html

OpenArena (Quake III) game for Linux.

Most people refuse to use Linux because they say that there are no games. This is completely false. Linux is a great operating system, capable of running games (if they are designed for it), just like Windows. OpenArena (Quake III) is a good example. It runs exactly like on Windows, but on Ubuntu Linux.

There are even possibilities for running Windows designed games on Linux, by emulation, with a program called Wine. But I'll detail this into a future article. So, go on Ubuntu Software Center and search for OpenArena. It installs in minutes, and no additional configuration needed.

Please note that 3D accelerated graphic drivers are needed. If your computer doesn't run natively a 3D accelerated driver, go to System -> Administration -> Hardware Drivers and select the driver (if available).