Well, here’s a fun turn of events. After years of seeing your favorite board games work their way onto your gaming consoles, USAopoly and Blizzard Entertainment are teaming to bring your video games onto your dining room table. Monopoly: World of Warcraft and Risk: StarCraft will “… combine tried-and-true foundations with new designs and gameplay elements inspired by Blizzard’s popular gaming universes.”

Unfortunately, AppleScript is not supported by the iOS, which appears to be the future of Apple operating systems, and there is indication that Apple is letting AppleScript support slip in OS 10.7 Lion. Tom Bender, developer of the AppleScript-oriented styled text editor Tex Edit Plus has been using Lion for several months now, but is still not sure what to think about Apple’s ongoing commitment to AppleScript.

Chances are you’ve heard of VLC media player before, and you might have even used the iOS version of the app on your iDevice. Regardless, in the first major release since VLC 1.0 debuted back in July of 2009, VLC 2.0 will be making its way onto Macs everywhere later this week. The VLC 2.0 screens show that the app’s user interface and general design have undergone a substantial change from the current version.

The folks from Mad Sun were on deck at MacWorld | iWorld 2012 with a new version of Notion music creator for the iPad. Notion1 was released about 5 years ago with a new iPad version released in the last year. There is a planned iPhone version that should be available in March or April. The program lets you play back, modify or create a musical composition in staff notation with the ease of the tap and drag iOS interface.

CrashPlan+ features easy installation with a “just click go” style feature to start using the app. The program transmits a default backup of the home directory once per hour to CrashPlan+, but the user or Systems Administrator has the ability to set the backup interval down to once per minute. The data is encrypted for secure remote storage.

Feral Interactive is once again letting it be known that when Mac gamers fight, there are no skirmishes or police actions. For us, it’s war—Total War—as evidenced by the announced that The Creative Assembly and Sega’s Empire: Total War Gold Edition will be launched for the Mac this spring.

Napkin Studio’s David Stanfill has been hard at work developing an OS X client that will allow for AirPlay mirroring from iOS to OS X, something that is currently unsupported. Stanfill’s decision to develop such a client and the technology behind it came from his desire to find a better way to demo his iOS applications during online meetings and to be able to record live video of the apps as they are being used.

Creative Cloud offers a web-based storage center for syncing content between a user’s devices, along with all of the upcoming Creative Suite 6 apps, Adobe Touch apps and services, and the newest content from Adobe (such as new products and features) as soon as they are publicly released. This includes Lightroom 4 once it gets out of beta, and Adobe’s new Muse and Edge web authoring software. All of these great things come at quite the cost, however, starting at a steep $49.99/month fee.

There’s been a lot of gaming news today—big releases—but they’ve all been for iOS. If you’re a Mac gamer, how do feel about that? Angry? Does it make you mad? Maybe even fill you with rage? Good, because Aspyr is offering up an appropriate way to release it. The venerable Mac game publisher has announced that Rage: Campaign Edition is available now from GameAgent.com. And if you order it by February 8th, you can get Doom 3 for only $1.

February is upon is, and I can think of no better time to check out G5′s February gaming releases. You? Casual gamers will have plenty from which to choose, including strategy and adventure games, the sequel to a fan-favorite, and a Valentine’s update to a hit city-builder.