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Electronic Arts’ Origin platform comes to Mac

Lewis Leong

Lewis Leong

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EA origin iconValve’s Steam game distribution platform will face some competition on the Mac as Electronic Arts just announced that Origin is coming soon. Origin for Mac is currently in an open alpha for users in North America and the United Kingdom. Alpha testers will automatically receive a free copy of PopCap’s Bookworm game.

Origin will feature many of the same features that Steam already has, including game save sync, automatic patching, and friends list. EA plans to bring Twitch.tv live streaming support to the Mac client as well, but it’s not included in the alpha. This is one area where Origin bests Steam.

EA is keeping its user experience consistent across platforms by making the Mac application as identical to the PC version as possible. Of course, this doesn’t mean that game selection will be identical on the different platforms. EA is leaving it up to the developers to see if they want to port a game to Mac, meaning the games library for Origin on Mac could be significantly smaller than the PC version.

EA Origin for Mac

If you have a Mac running OS X 10.6.8 or later with at least a Core 2 Duo processor, you can help EA test Origin for Mac by clicking here.

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