Crossover to Support Team Fortress 2

ByMike Moffit

I’ve written about Crossover before and now it’s time to bring it up again. One of my favorite games is about to get a major update in it’s next release, Team Fortress 2. Basically it’s a capture the flag type of game with some high end graphics. I actually am participating in the beta right now, and it looks great, unfortunately I have to use a PC to play it.

Crossover could change that though. They promise to have better speeds and stability when running these supported game titles. Crossover is also nicer then Parallels, VMWare Fusion or Boot Camp in that you don’t even need Windows to run these Windows applications. Crossover just acts like Windows and allows you to run games or applications right inside your OS X system.

There is a demo version of Crossover available but we offer the full version for $59.99.

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