Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, Gaming, Odds and ends

MacWindows reports that CrossOver (which was already doing pretty well with Windows games inside OS X) is planning to release a gaming-optimized version of their virtualization software. It’ll be called CrossOver Gaming, and while we’re not actually given details of how it’s going to be “optimized” for games, we are told that it will be compatible with more Windows games

Additionally, the new version will actually be a subscription model– instead of just buying the software, you’ll pay $5 a month (presumably for quick updates on type new games). Other than that, we’re not quite certain what advantage CrossOver’s system will have by, say, running games in Windows via Boot Camp (seems to me that whether you have the hardware to run Windows […]

Orginal post by Mike Schramm