If you prefer to buy digital copies of games instead of buying them at the shops, you need Origin for Mac.
As well as managing your premium downloads, Origin also runs the installer and launches it. If a game requires a DRM (digital Rights Management) license, this will be acquired by Origin too. Note that you cannot run downloaded games without Origin, as the DRM system requires it to be running. As well as games, Origin for Mac also keeps you up to date with patches and updates.

Origin features many of the same features that Steam already has, including game save sync, automatic patching, and friends list. EA also plans to bring Twitch.tv live streaming support to the Mac client as well, but it's not included in the Alpha. Although EA aim to make the Mac version of Origin as similar to the PC version as possible, 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. The big question is whether FIFA 13 will finally come to Mac as many fans were lead to believe when it launched on PC.

The Origin for Mac interface feels a bit like its been taken directly from the PC version although this will probably improve as the app becomes more popular and more games are available for it.

For Mac users, the arrival of Origin for Mac means some exciting times ahead for those that are fans of EA games although the initial selection is quite limited.

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Besides updating the game with the latest team and player data, FIFA 12 has been furnished with some impressive new features.

In recent years, the FIFA series has developed into a worthy rival to Pro Evolution Soccer, and in fact many will argue that FIFA 12 is a more complete soccer experience than PES 2012.

What's new in FIFA 12?

Building on the success of recent years, FIFA 12 introduces three main developments: precision dribbling, tactical defending and the player impact engine. These all - and especially the latter of the three - have a major impact on the gaming experience.

What does this mean?

The impact engine has arguably the greatest impact on gameplay, and it really changes the dynamics of tackling and contact in the game. FIFA 12's impact engine makes tackles look and feel much more realistic, and will no doubt result in more player injuries! When two players jump for a ball in the air in FIFA 12, they will no longer always land together perfectly, but may fall depending on the contact made with the other player.

Defending in general has been refined, and it's not longer possible to just hold down the 'pressure' button and expect the nearest defender to squeeze up and snatch the ball from the attacker. In fact, do that in FIFA 12 and you can seriously mistime the challenge and allow the player through. Timing is everything in this new tactical defending system, and while it's frustrating it's ultimately more rewarding when you start getting it right.

When dribbling in FIFA 12, you do feel in much more control than previous versions. Getting past defenders is more enjoyable as a result, and neat tricks seem easier to pull off.

How realistic is FIFA 12?

Very. As always, FIFA 12 is fully licensed so you'll be able to play with your favorite players and clubs, and the game will follow the summer and winter transfer windows, so teams will mirror their real life counterparts.

Graphics have had an incremental improvement, and animation is also better than last year's game. The full version of FIFA 12 will also have a big online component, with a much greater social element. Support Your Club League Tables will exist, allowing your performances with your favorite teams to contribute to their community standings overall. EA is also promising to keep FIFA 12 fresh with real-world soccer news.

What's in the demo?

The FIFA 12 demo gives you access to Manchester City, AC Milan, Olympic Marseille, Borussia Dortmund, Barcelona and Arsenal. The options are fairly limited, and settings such as choice of ball, weather and length of the halves are not incorporated in this demo. All other aspects of the game are also missing, so you play just one practice game, but it still gives you a good impression of FIFA 12.

FIFA 12 is an incredible soccer gaming experience which is as close you can get to playing a real game of soccer on your Mac.

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Released on 28 September 2010 in North America and 1 October 2010 in Europe for all platforms, except the Wii (which will be released on 3 October 2010).

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If you're looking for a schedule to pin on your wall, the Envis FIFA World Cup 2010 Schedule is a very attractive option. Produced by a studio for interactive design, it looks absolutely great, and makes a nice change from the loud and in your face offerings from newspapers and magazines. It's the World cup schedule for the style obsessed!

Envis FIFA World Cup 2010 Schedule is an elegant and clear way to follow the games in South Africa

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Heavily influenced by the classic Sensible Soccer of the 90s, Sensational World Soccer requires only directional controls and one action button. This serves for passing, shooting and tackling, depending where your player is on the pitch.

The player you control is chosen by the computer - when you're not on the ball, you get the nearest player to it. Sensational World Soccer can take a bit of getting used to, as if you keep your fingers on the controls and the player changes, you can find your new player running in the wrong direction! Passing and shooting power depends on how long you hold the action button.

Sensational World Soccer's simplicity couldn't be further away from modern games like FIFA, but it's still a fun game. As well as choosing your tea, you can alter formation to suit your playing style. Match length can be three, five or seven minutes, and the game speed has three levels. Two players can play comfortably on the same keyboard.

Sensational World Soccer is a fun two player game, and a pretty tough single player retro challenge.

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If you will be behind the USA in South Africa, download this USA FIFA World Cup 2010 Fan Wallpaper in 1280x960 resolution featuring star player Landon Donovan superimposed on the American Flag and the White House for a truly patriotic desktop.

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The 2010 FIFA World Cup will be the 19th FIFA World Cup which only takes place once every four years. This year its scheduled to take place between 11 June and 11 July 2010 in South Africa. This 2010 FIFA World Cup Countdown Widget countdowns the days, hours, minutes and seconds to the big event and features the official World Cup mascot.

Keep tabs on how long is left to the 2010 World Cup with this mascot themed countdown widget.

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South Africa 2010 is an application for following the FIFA World Cup South Africa 2010. With it, you can view the match schedule, save the final score, show both groups and second stage table, build statistics and you also update the results on-line.

South Africa 2010 features a complete matches calendar which you can conveniently filter by stage, group and team. One particularly handy feature is that South Africa 2010 supports the conversion of match dates and times based on your local timezone so you don't need to get confused by the South African time schedule. Finally, you can also export the table and results to both text and HTML format.

There is no information about the venues, teams or background information to any of the matches and groups but if you just want a simple way to track the World Cup, it's very effective.

South Africa 2010 is a simple, well presented and logical way to follow the 2010 World Cup.

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The first World Cup to be held in Africa promises to be a spectacular event with some of the World's best players such as Lionel Messi, Fernando Torres and Cristiano Ronaldo on show.

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Excel Soccer World Cup 2010 Planner is a highly advanced Excel spreadsheet that allows you to input and track results, view current standings, check fixtures and get information about the venues and stadiums. Excel Soccer World Cup 2010 Planner comes with a quick guide that explains how to use the spreadsheet. It's well worth reading this before you start because it can be difficult to figure out how to use the planner.

Excel Soccer World Cup 2010 Planner does have a rather primitive user interface, navigated using the icons and arrows at the top of the page. The Results section contains a list of all the matches from the group stages through to the final, for you to add the full-time and half-time scores for each as the tournament progresses. You can view current group standings and check the overall progress of the knockout phase. Remember, that everything is calculated based on the results you enter yourself, so if you make a mistake when typing scores in, this will affect the other permutations.

The Predictions area of Excel Soccer World Cup 2010 Planner lets you set up up to four leagues of up to 32 different teams each. Here you and your friends can compete against each other to guess the scores of all the matches, predict who will win the tournament. League tables are kept of each player's performance.

Excel Soccer World Cup 2010 Planner will suit die-hard football fans with the patience to enter all the data themselves. Others may be put off by the sheer scale of data this spreadsheet app handles.

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2010 is finally here and so is the four yearly competition that all football and soccer fans dream of - the World Cup.

This time it will be in South Africa and FIFA has chosen 'Zakumi' the lion as the official mascot of the tournament. This desktop wallpaper features Zakumi holding the ball with the 2010 FIFA World Cup logo. It's an official FIFA wallpaper, but is only available in 1280x1024 resolution.

Get geared up for the biggest sporting show on Earth with this official wallpaper for the 2010 World Cup.

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FIFA and Pro Evolution have well and truly cornered the football simulation market. So much so, in fact, that the thought of choosing to play a different soccer game seems a bit absurd.

Awesome Soccer harks back to the old days of football games like Super Kick Off and Microprose Soccer. Its simple controls and top-down viewpoint recreate the charm of those instantly-playable, engrossing soccer sims of the Nineties.

You can choose from a number of different game modes in Awesome Soccer. You can play a quick game or a friendly, or choose to enter a tournament. The tournament mode includes an impressive array of competitions, including eight domestic leagues, the European Championships (based on the 2008 tournament), the World Cup (based on the 2006 line-up), and the Champions League (2009-2010 season). All of these competitions include the real teams and, in the main, real player names. There are some anomalies in the squads, but thankfully, Awesome Soccer comes with a data editor so you can change the player names and attributes yourself.

Aside from winning tournaments, Awesome Soccer also challenges you to unlock 'Golden balls', which are awarded for special achievements during the game, then displayed in your 'Showcase'. This, and the fact that there are five difficulty settings makes Awesome Soccer a game that you will struggle to get bored of.

Once you enter the match mode, you'll soon realize that Awesome Soccer is just about as simple to play as it gets. You'll just need the directional buttons (or cursor keys) to move the players, and the Fire button (or Space bar) to pass, shoot, tackle, etc. The kind of action that's performed depends on your position and whether you're attacking or defending. These controls make Awesome Soccer very straightforward to play on a Mac, although you do feel very restricted in terms of what you can do, when compared with more sophisticated football sims.

The graphics in Awesome Soccer are pretty lame, so don't expect any real player likenesses or smooth animation - the effects here are strictly retro. The sound is pretty patchy too. There are some authentic crowd noises but they cut out very abruptly, making it sound a bit weird. Also, the music that plays during an action replay is so bad it's laughable.

OK, so Awesome Soccer doesn't have the super realistic graphics and ridiculously complex gameplay of FIFA or Pro Evo, but that doesn't stop it from being a fast and fun football experience.

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The latest installment of FIFA is almost upon us and if you're a fan of the game, this is one way to celebrate the launch early.

This is a fans tribute to the game (so it's not the official wallpaper of FIFA 2010) and features Brazilian genius Ronaldinho super imposed on the FIFA 10 stadium. The art work is a little dodgy in places - it's not a great representation of the player but it's in high 1600 x 1200 resolution and should satisfy all but the most demanding fans of both the player and the game.

Celebrate one of the most famous football franchises in gaming with this unofficial FIFA 10 desktop wallpaper.

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Started on June 2002, Yoda Soccer is a project which intends to create a new free game with the gameplay and the style of the well known Sensible World of Soccer (a.

k. a. SWOS). You'll enjoy the easy controls, all the teams and leagues, and the possibility to customize. Yoda Soccer is at the opposite of the high in graphics and effects Fifa, but it appeals so much to games because of its simplicity.

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Germany 2006 is an application for managing the FIFA World Cup Germany 2006. With this program you can view the match schedule, save the final score, show both groups and second stage table, build statistics and you can also update the results on-line.

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Customize the desktop of your Mac to the feel of the FIFA World Cup 2006. This selection of icons features the official Adidas ball, the world cup trophy and a football pitch.

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The 2006 FIFA World Cup makes its way to your desktop in this Widget. It's the easiest way to stay on top of the games! Any of the 32 participating teams can be selected to give you news, photos and match information specific to that team.

An updating schedule shows you the times and scores of games from the first kick to the final goal, and when your team is on the pitch, you'll get live scores and access to MatchCast for even more information!

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The World Cup is fast approaching and you don't want to be missing any of it. This timer informs you of how much time is left before the start of the grand competition.

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