This was a busy week in tech, from the first reveal of the Nintendo Switch 2 to TikTok's looming ban in the United States.

For a large number of Mac users who are still on Intel-based Macs, there’s one very good reason why they’re not switching ...

That changed last week with Parallels Desktop 20.2, which adds preliminary x86 emulation so you can fire up 64-bit versions ...

The Parallels Desktop 20.2.0 update makes it possible to run full-fledged Windows on Apple Mac computers with their own ...

Parallels Desktop introduces a new experimental feature that lets you install x86_64 operating systems on your Apple-silicon ...

Parallels Desktop 20.2 brings x86 emulation to Apple Silicon Macs, allowing developers and enterprises to run Intel-based virtual machines on M1 and M2 chips.

Last week, Parallels released a new update that partially resolves this problem: Users of Parallels Desktop Pro 20.2.0 now have access to x86 operating systems via an "early technology preview" of ...

However, this did not apply to virtual machines. As a result, Parallels Desktop previously only allowed Windows or Linux for ARM (plus the ARM version of macOS) to be used in VMs. The new feature ...

and Linux. While support for Apple Silicon has been around since Parallels Desktop 16.5, it has been limited in not having x86 emulation support until this update. The new emulation in a tech ...

Parallels Desktop and VMware support DirectX 11. The new ARM-based version of VirtualBox is nowhere near as capable. It merely lets you install ARM-based versions of Linux on Apple silicon computers.

Would-be players on other platforms were simply using emulation software such as Parallels or Proton on Linux in order to play the game. CodeWeavers CEO James Ramey directly contacted NetEase to ...