Apple's Metal for OS X will help forge Feral's future games

Mac gaming gets a polished new graphics API

Scorching news hot off the (metal) press: Apple has announced Metal, a new feature for Mac OS X El Capitan that promises to seriously boost performance on all Macs enabling them to deliver faster, richer graphics to the screen.

And why are we telling you this? Well, as luck would have it, high end games are likely to be the biggest beneficiaries of Metal and yes, you do detect a huge grin spreading across our chops.

Feral is committed to supporting Metal and will make further happy, shiny, metallic announcements in due course.

You can find out more about Metal on Apple's website.