Gaming on a macbook pro retina

Hello!
I've bought a macbook pro retina 15" 2,4 quadcore. I use it mostly for school and internet, but i would also like to play on it. Everytime I play a game like omerta, bioshock infinite for a little while, it gets extremely hot, and I close the game. It's my first mac, and if it's not good with the heat., then I would rather not play games. Should I stop gaming, or should I get an other pc/mac for gaming purposes ?

The MBPr has a great display, lots of power, but is not a high-end game machine...the entire unit, storage, memory, etc., is made up of solid state devices.  The demands of high end gaming and 3-D graphics builds heat rapidly.  The MBPs all have thermal sensors that will run back the CPU speed if it starts getting too hot so you cannot damage the laptop by thermal overload.  But that will then degrade the game performance.
With high-end games you would be better off with something like a desktop iMac which has higher performance graphics capabilities.

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