It’s been over four years now since the original release of City of Heroes for the PC but late is better than never when it comes to great games being ported to the Mac platform.  NCsoft has announced that City of Heroes is now available as an open beta for the Mac.

The Mac Special Edition will include City of Villains along with a mission teleporter power and an exclusive Valkyrie costume set.  The mission teleporter will allow players to directly teleport to their active mission.  The Valkyrie costume set will include two varieties of wings, a cape, skirt or kilt, pants, boots, shoulder, chest, gloves, belts and helmet.

The system requirements are fairly usual, requiring an Intel based Mac.  The kicker is the game doesn’t support the Intel GMA 950 graphics core.  So if you own an older Intel based Mac you are out of luck.  Check your system profiler to make sure you meet the requirements before signing up.

What are you waiting for?  Go sign up for the open beta, you have waited long enough already.