10. Mac gaming will rise to new heights. Publishers will convert PC games to the Mac using next-generation Intel hardware conversion utilities. They will find that testing games for the relatively small number of Mac hardware variations makes their job much easier. IGN will re-launch mac.ign.com. Also, bucking the recent trends, a Mac-gaming-centric print magazine will launch...and the initial issues will sell very well.

9. FMAME (the Flash version of MAME) will be embraced by many unscrupulous game portals. Other Flash-based emulators will follow. Small Flash game developers will have their games squeezed out of portals and will have to work much harder to make games that will get published. At the same time, an I.P. incident similar to the Facebook "Scrabulous" issue will rock the viral, Flash game world. It will force many domestic U.S./Europe portals to screen games more closely, and start licensing classic game ROMs for use on their sites, further squeezing indie game developers.

jim Sterling over at Destructoid has written a very insightful blog about The Myth Of Casual Gaming .  Jim writes:

The truth of the matter is that the hardcore/casual divide is little more than a myth, and the companies that are so desperate to secure themselves a casual demographic are doing little else than chasing rainbows.

Jim seems to be covering some of the same ground that Jeff covered in his original blog about Midcore gamers. 

as the usage of the term "Mid-core Gamer" continues to spread across the web, we will periodically update you on its impact. Here is a list of interesting stories and links to internet chatter about "Mid-core Gamers"

The most interesting find this week was at the 2PStart Comic Strip Podcast.

we have been working feverishly to get our support for the Mid-Core community launched.  We have received tons of feedback, and we have been altering our udeas and plans accordingly. 

First off, the initial version of http://www.midcoregamer.com is up.  It is still very basic, but the shell is there, and we wil lcontinue to work on it.

Also version the Midcore Manifesto (version 1.3) is now available in the Wiki.  We have combined two of the items, to round it back to ten.  Alsom we have added some axioms that are more-like guidelines to what it means to be a Mid-Core gamer.

Finally, we have created the 1.0 Spec of the Mid-Core Gamer Game Review Format.  This is our unique style for reviewing games based on the Mid-Core Manifesto.  We hope that this format will help people who consider themselves "Mid-Core" to find games that will appeal to them.

we've had a flood of interest and feedback over our Midcore Manifesto posted last week. and much of it has been very positive. To be perfectly honest, this has come as a complete surprise. Our web site is dedicated to free tutorials for making Flash games (a very small but fierce demographic). We only blog on topics about "playing games" when we feel the urge to do so.

it looks like Jeff's blog yesterday about being a "Mid-Core" gamer has struck a chord with a few people.  We had one of our best days ever yesterday (traffic-wise) and we got some good placements on sites like Gamesetwatch.com, Destrucoid.com and GoNintendo.com.  Some people even seem to like the new moniker and have taken to using it to describe themselves.  Pretty cool actually.  

Will Mid-Core actually live on as an actual coined-phrase?  Maybe, maybe not...