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.

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.

Well, it’s a party now. Bjarni and his vikings are here, and there ain’t no party like a Bjarni viking party! Hey! Ho! Runesoft has announced that the real time strategy game Cultures: Northland is now available in the Mac App Store. The game, which was originally developed by Funatics, tasks the player with building and managing a viking settlement.

This epic sci-fi adventure—available now for iOS as a universal app—will be released on the Mac App Store at the end of this month. The Mac version will offer adapted controls for mouse, keyboard, and gamepad, along with completely revised graphics to feature four-times the original resolution for a console-like gaming experience.

Before computer games, even before role-playing games, there were war games, where players could reenact battles—historical or otherwise—by moving miniatures or cardboard chits along a 3D terrain or board map. Commander: Napoleon at War is an almost direct translation of these war games; there’s little flash in terms of graphics—the entire focus of the game is on the creation, management, and movement of military units.