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Apple has a new porting toolkit to run DirectX 12 games on macOS

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This year’s WWDC brought some interesting news for gamers and game developers alike. And no, we’re not talking about the impossibly expensive Vision Pro AR headset or.
Forward-looking: Apple has seemingly had enough with all the memes about the Mac platform being the joke of the PC gaming world rather than a proper entertainment machine. Cupertino is finally providing some new tools to developers, promoting a quicker evaluation of what’s needed to port a game to macOS.
This year’s WWDC brought some interesting news for gamers and game developers alike. And no, we’re not talking about the impossibly expensive Vision Pro AR headset or some “interactive” AR gaming toy. This time, Apple is providing developers with a Game Porting Toolkit to make macOS gaming an actual business opportunity.
The new toolkit includes a compatibility layer which programmers, or even gamers, can use to run DirectX 12 games in a macOS environment.

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