{"id":1505,"date":"2007-06-15T22:40:55","date_gmt":"2007-06-15T21:40:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/big-game-hunting-on-a-software-safari\/"},"modified":"2025-07-02T02:53:35","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T09:53:35","slug":"big-game-hunting-on-a-software-safari","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/big-game-hunting-on-a-software-safari\/","title":{"rendered":"Big game hunting on a software safari"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week has been a pretty big one for the heavyweights of the software industry, and we\u2019ve seen them spring a few pleasant surprises on unsuspecting computer users. First up, Apple CEO Steve Jobs <a href=\"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/steve-jobs-announces-safari-for-windows\/\">announced<\/a> that the new version of the company\u2019s web browser Safari would be available for Windows for the first time. Cyril took the chance to have <a href=\"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/review-a-first-look-at-safari\/\">good look<\/a> at what PC users have been missing out on all this time.<\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere, details were leaking out that Apple\u2019s old sparring partner is up to something as Nick found out that Microsoft is <a href=\"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/microsoft-to-launch-joost-service\/\">looking to launch<\/a> an Internet TV service to rival Joost. RealPlayer is also joining this media revolution, announcing the <a href=\"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/realplayer-11-soon-available-in-beta\/\">beta launch<\/a> of version 11 of the player, which is designed to download online video instantly.<\/p>\n<p>Another major player, Adobe, left us trying to figure out why it has just <a href=\"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/golives-last-stand\/\">released<\/a> a new version of GoLive, despite the fact the company now produces the program\u2019s traditional rival, Dreamweaver.<\/p>\n<p>If these big new launches are scrambling your brain then why not escape by blasting some aliens to bits, or don a lycra outfit and wield your keyboard as a guitar? We brought you details of <a href=\"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/overlord-demo-is-out\/\">Overlord<\/a>, the awesome new RPG from Codemasters, and a <a href=\"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/show-off-your-guitar-skills-with-frets-on-fire\/\">review<\/a> of the head-banging Frets on Fire game. You never know, if you get good enough at these games you might get invited to take part in the <a href=\"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/championship-gaming-series-kicks-off\/\">Championship Gaming Series<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week has been a pretty big one for the heavyweights of the software industry, and we\u2019ve seen them spring a few pleasant surprises on unsuspecting computer users. First up, Apple CEO Steve Jobs announced that the new version of the company\u2019s web browser Safari would be available for Windows for the first time. Cyril &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/big-game-hunting-on-a-software-safari\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Big game hunting on a software safari&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2006,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[],"tags":[2431],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-1505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-app-subdomain-redirectionsafari"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1505","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2006"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1505"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1505\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":337560,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1505\/revisions\/337560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1505"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=1505"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=1505"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=1505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}