9/25/2019 Online Games For Mac 2017
MAC Broadcast Schedule NOTE: This list includes telecasts that fall under the TV contracts for the conference. Any road non-conference games fall under the home team's telecast rights. The MAC has a national cable contract with ESPN Networks.
Mac App Store is the simplest way to find and download apps for your Mac. To download apps from the Mac App Store, you need a Mac with OS X 10.6.6 or later.
The contract runs through the 2026-27 athletic year. ESPN's contract includes the ability to sublicense games and guaranteed coverage for all MAC games.
The previous contract allowed for at least six regular season games will air on ESPN or ESPN2, plus a minimum of five games on ESPNU. ESPN3 will be used for any game not distributed on some form of national or regional television. ESPN is working with the schools to self-produce ESPN3 content, providing them with production equipment. CBS Sports Network will sublicense MAC content from ESPN. CBSSN will sublicense twelve football games and this agreement ends after the 2018-19 athletic year. Primary National Cable Telecasts Game Network Time Boston College at Northern Illinois Friday 9/1 9:30 PM Kansas at Ohio Saturday 9/16 12:00 PM Iowa St. At Akron Saturday 9/16 12:00 PM Eastern Michigan at Toledo Saturday 10/7 12:00 PM Western Michigan at Buffalo Saturday 10/7 3:30 PM Eastern Michigan at Northern Illinois Thursday 10/26 7:00 PM Buffalo at Akron Saturday 10/28 11:30 AM Miami (OH) at Ohio Tuesday 10/31 8:00 PM Bowling Green at Kent St.
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Tuesday 10/31 8:00 PM Central Michigan at Western Michigan Wednesday 11/1 8:00 PM Northern Illinois at Toledo Thursday 11/2 6:00 PM Ball St. At Eastern Michigan Thursday 11/2 6:00 PM Akron at Miami (OH) Tuesday 11/7 7:30 PM Bowling Green at Buffalo Tuesday 11/7 7:30 PM Toledo at Ohio Wednesday 11/8 7:00 PM Kent St. At Western Michigan Wednesday 11/8 7:00 PM Eastern Michigan at Central Michigan Wednesday 11/8 8:00 PM Ball St. At Northern Illinois Thursday 11/9 7:00 PM Ohio at Akron Tuesday 11/14 7:00 PM Central Michigan at Kent St. Tuesday 11/14 7:00 PM Western Michigan at Northern Illinois Wednesday 11/15 7:00 PM Eastern Michigan at Miami (OH) Wednesday 11/15 7:00 PM Toledo at Bowling Green Wednesday 11/15 8:00 PM Buffalo at Ball St. Thursday 11/16 7:00 PM Kent St.
At Akron Tuesday 11/21 7:00 PM Western Michigan at Toledo Friday 11/24 11:30 AM Northern Illinois at Central Michigan Friday 11/24 12:00 PM MAC Championship Akron vs. Toledo (at Detroit, MI) Saturday 12/2 12:00 PM.
Internet Exclusives Game Network Time Elon at Toledo Thursday 8/31 7:00 PM Rhode Island at Central Michigan Thursday 8/31 7:00 PM Charlotte at Eastern Michigan Friday 9/1 6:30 PM Hampton at Ohio Saturday 9/2 7:00 PM UAB at Ball St. Saturday 9/9 3:00 PM Eastern Illinois at Northern Illinois Saturday 9/9 3:30 PM Austin Peay at Miami (OH) Saturday 9/9 3:30 PM Howard at Kent St. Saturday 9/9 3:30 PM South Dakota at Bowling Green Saturday 9/9 6:00 PM UAPB at Akron Saturday 9/9 6:30 PM Tennessee Tech at Ball St.
Saturday 9/16 3:00 PM Colgate at Buffalo Saturday 9/16 6:00 PM Tulsa at Toledo Saturday 9/16 7:00 PM Idaho at Western Michigan Saturday 9/16 7:00 PM Ohio at Eastern Michigan Saturday 9/23 2:00 PM Miami (OH) at Central Michigan Saturday 9/23 3:30 PM Wagner at Western Michigan Saturday 9/23 7:00 PM FAU at Buffalo Saturday 9/23 7:00 PM Buffalo at Kent St. Saturday 9/30 3:30 PM Akron at Bowling Green Saturday 9/30 6:00 PM Ball St. At Western Michigan Saturday 9/30 7:00 PM Central Michigan at Ohio Saturday 10/7 2:00 PM Bowling Green at Miami (OH) Saturday 10/7 2:30 PM Ball St. At Akron Saturday 10/7 3:30 PM Kent St. At Northern Illinois Saturday 10/7 3:30 PM Toledo at Central Michigan Saturday 10/14 3:30 PM Miami (OH) at Kent St. Saturday 10/14 3:30 PM Ohio at Bowling Green Saturday 10/14 3:30 PM Northern Illinois at Buffalo Saturday 10/14 3:30 PM Akron at Western Michigan Sunday 10/15 1:00 PM Kent St.
At Ohio Saturday 10/21 2:00 PM Western Michigan at Eastern Michigan Saturday 10/21 2:00 PM Northern Illinois at Bowling Green Saturday 10/21 2:00 PM Buffalo at Miami (OH) Saturday 10/21 2:30 PM Central Michigan at Ball St. Saturday 10/21 3:00 PM Toledo at Ball St. Thursday 10/26 7:00 PM Bowling Green at Eastern Michigan Tuesday 11/21 7:00 PM Miami (OH) at Ball St. Tuesday 11/21 7:00 PM Ohio at Buffalo Friday 11/24 1:00 PM.
Update: At number 8, we've added Total War: Warhammer to our list, the latest entry in a long-running tabletop franchise, perfected for the PC. Strategy games make you think.
They're not like most shooters that offer mindless gameplay, or the adventure game that has you leaping off cliffs and driving boats. Strategy games require your brain juices at all times to plan each move carefully and analyze what the opponent will do next – quickly. They require you to develop armies, build civilizations and gather resources in the process. But strategy games aren't just about the gameplay: they typically offer sprawling, geopolitical stories too that hook players and keep them focused on the campaign. That said, what makes a strategy game great is how it pulls players into its mythology and allows them to carry out missions without overcomplicating it.
Here is a handful of strategy games on the PC and Mac that achieve this balance perfectly. Prev Page 1 of 9 Next Prev Page 1 of 9 Next 1. StarCraft II. Blizzard Entertainment launched the first StarCraft sci-fi military strategy game back in 1998, and while it was extremely popular, the game wasn't the mammoth product StarCraft II has become.
With the sequel, Blizzard has released three installments that span one huge campaign: Wings of Liberty (2010), Heart of the Swarm (2013) and Legacy of the Void (2015). Each of these releases focus on a specific protagonist group: human exiles called the Terrans in Wings of Liberty, the Borg-like insectoids called Zerg in Heart of the Swarm, and the telepathic alien race known as the Protoss in Legacy of the Void. The overall campaign takes place four years after the Brood War expansion pack for the original StarCraft, beginning with Jim Raynor's quest to take down the tyrannical Terran Dominion. StarCraft II succeeds by combining sharp strategic gameplay and balance with an immersive story and scenery. The game also comes with its own level editor, allowing players to share their maps and mods via the Battle.net online community. Of course, StarCraft II can be played online – it's one of the widest-played eSports worldwide – but currently it does not provide local LAN play.
StarCraft II can only be purchased from Blizzard Entertainment digitally and in boxed versions. Prev Page 2 of 9 Next Prev Page 2 of 9 Next 2. Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos. Here's another popular strategy game from Blizzard, though with a decidedly fantasy theme. It was released way back in 2002 and features a single-player campaign story that's told through the eyes of four races: Humans, Orcs, the Undead, and the Night Elves. As with StarCraft, players are typically faced with a map covered in a black fog, which is slowly removed as you explores the area (Diablo does this, too). You begin by mining resources, building settlements and establishing troops in order to protect your assets and take control of other parts of the map.
A day/night cycle keeps players on their toes, too. There are a total of five campaigns in Warcraft III that center on a specific race: one for the Night Elves, one for the Undead, one for the Humans, and two for the Orcs. Objectives are labeled as 'quests' and are rolled out as the player explores a map. The are both main quests an optional quests to perform, the former being required in order to move the story forward – natch. Warcraft III also offers a multiplayer component that can be played over local LAN.
Blizzard even released an expansion pack called The Frozen Throne that was published back in 2003. Both the original game and the expansion can be purchased for the PC and Mac via Blizzard's online portal, and in a Battle Chest retail box. Prev Page 3 of 9 Next Prev Page 3 of 9 Next 3. This strategy game is rather new for the PC, Mac and Linux platforms, developed by Firaxis Games and published by 2K Games in February 2016. It takes place 20 years after XCOM: Enemy Unknown (2012), and sees the Earth taken over by aliens – what else? – despite XCOM's best efforts.
In this installment, XCOM is now part of a resistance movement aimed to take back control of the planet. In the single-player campaign, players assume command of XCOM, a former military organization that is now a mere resistance force.
A new Avenger mobile base has been established where from you issue commands while spearheading research and engineering departments to create weapons and other tools that will help fight off the hostile aliens. What makes XCOM 2 stand out is its maps, which are lush and rich in detail, and it's strategy-rich, turn-based combat. They're also different each time you play them, keeping the game fresh. In addition to the single-player campaign, there's also a peer-to-peer multiplayer mode, pitting players against each other using squads mixed with alien and XCOM units. XCOM 2 can be purchased through Steam, Amazon and other retailers in boxed and digital editions. Prev Page 4 of 9 Next Prev Page 4 of 9 Next 4.
Cities: Skylines. If you were disappointed by the messy launch of the thoroughly disappointing SimCity reboot back in 2013, take solace in the fact that two years later a development team with a greater understanding of its audience took charge of the genre in a much more respectable, and less flagrant, manner. Sacrificing all of the always-online DLC quirks in favor of hosting bigger cities and Steam Workshop support for mods, Cities: Skylines is everything classic SimCity players wanted, and would have gotten if it weren't for whatever the hell happened at. Cities: Skylines retains the appeal of early city building simulations with a handful of modern twists.
An in-game social media service for instance called Chirper lets residents get in contact with you, the world designer, to voice complaints. More noteworthy, though, is the thrill of managing traffic routes on a district to district basis. In fact, most of your governance in Cities: Skylines is separated by districts, making taxation as true to the United States as developmentally possible. Prev Page 5 of 9 Next Prev Page 5 of 9 Next 5. Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War. Developed by Relic Entertainment and published by THQ in 2004, this military sci-fi game is based on the Warhammer 40,000 tabletop wargame. The game takes place on the imperial planet of Tartarus that's currently overrun by Orks.
In the background, the human-run Imperium is in constant struggle with the Orks – along with those humans serving the demonic Chaos and the Eldar (space elves) – in a struggle to keep the human race alive. That said, the game provides four armies the player can use throughout the single-player campaign: Space Marines (superhuman soldiers), Chaos Marines (mutated marines), the psychic race of Eldars (again, space elves), and the savage Orks.
Resources include power and requisition, the latter of which is generated by the army headquarters. Power is generated by establishing generators that will decay over time, keeping the player busy.
The game begins with you establishing your main headquarters and several basic units. After that, you're directed to focus on capturing and holding strategic locations on the map that can later be used to harvest additional resources and unlock nearby areas on said map. Battles are won by defeating bases occupied by enemy forces, or by holding on to locations for a period of time.
There are three expansion packs for this RTS title currently available: Winter Assault (2005), Dark Crusade (2006) and Soulstorm (2008). All of these, including the base game, can be purchased on Steam rather cheap.
Prev Page 6 of 9 Next Prev Page 6 of 9 Next 6. This is an oldie but a goodie, developed by Relic Entertainment and published by Sierra Entertainment in 1999.
The primary protagonists are the Kushan, who at one time were exiled to a colony of prison ships after losing a galactic war. Other races include the Taiidan, an interstellar empire that rules most of the galaxy, the Bentusi traders, the Kadeshi, the Turanic Raiders and the Galactic Council.
A key element that separates Homeworld from the other games in this article is that it's played in a 100% 3D space, hence its dedicated following. The playable races consist of the Taiidan and the Kushan. Each have their specific strengths and weaknesses, and are initially tasked to gather minerals from asteroids and harvest dust clouds using special spaceships, which bring these resources back to the player's resource controller ship, carrier or mothership. Ultimately, the task at hand is to keep the fleet alive as it completes missions and gathers resources. Ther object of the story is to locate the homeworld of the Kushan, called Hiigara. This story spans sixteen missions across the single-player campaign, which sees the surviving ships of the fleet carried over to the next mission.
There was an online multiplayer component to the game as well – allowing players to helm either the Taiidan or Kushan. Homeworld is available for Windows and Mac OS X in a Remastered collection by Gearbox Software on Steam, which includes the remastered versions of Homeworld and Homeworld 2, classic versions of the two games, and more. Prev Page 7 of 9 Next Prev Page 7 of 9 Next 7. The Banner Saga 2. Like the first game, The Banner Saga 2 reprises the Choose Your Own Adventure format, but with a handful of necessary refinements to its mechanics. While it's not a full-on video game sequel, but rather an episodic continuation of the first game, quite literally beginning at Chapter 8, Banner Saga 2 manages to take the battle system from the first and turn (base) it on its head.
By incorporating new characters, classes, and by default, new abilities, the game feels a little less like a two-year-late second episode and more like a respectful follow-up to a beloved faux-nordic classic strategy game. Also exclusive to the sequel are instances of more cleanly integrated storytelling in-battle, all without ignoring the need for an expanded scale that'll make you feel like an ant compared to your combatants. Prev Page 8 of 9 Next Prev Page 8 of 9 Next 8. Total War: Warhammer. You might take one look at Total War: Warhammer and think, 'Ugh, just another fantasy game,' but you'd be wrong. In fact, the Warhammer franchise from Games Workshop has been around since 1983, long before World of Warcraft ever came about. Total War: Warhammer in particular takes the ideas of the ideas of the influential Warhammer tabletop games and brings them to a monitor near you, replenished with lore that veterans will appreciate, but also with some really intense battles between humans, orcs, dwarves and even vampires.
With units spread across a huge map, there's still a strategy to be had here (despite the showy cutscenes and suspenseful gameplay). Total War: Warhammer is about all about getting into the nitty gritty of your faction, which you have four to choose from – each one completely distinct from the rest. Still, Total War: Warhammer is all about real-time combat, so you'll spend most of your time with the game thinking on your toes. Don't confuse this with the likes of Starcraft, though, where you spend most of your time building bases across an even playing field.
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Total War: Warhammer, instead, is all about up-close battles and all-out warfare, hence the whole 'Total War' thing. Prev Page 9 of 9 Next Prev Page 9 of 9 Next.
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