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Valve brings Steam to Mac

Posted Mar 8, 2010 at 11:46PM EST by Ryan F.

Listed in: PC Gaming Tags: apple, games for windows, mac, Steam, valve
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Mac users rejoice! As expected, Valve has today confirmed that its Steam game distribution service and Source engine is finally heading to Apple's Macintosh platform early next month. Valve's library of games will include Left 4 Dead 2, Team Fortress 2, Counter-Strike, Portal, and the Half-Life series. According to Jason Holtman, Director of Business Development at Valve:

 

Our Steam partners, who are delivering over a thousand games to 25 million Steam clients, are very excited about adding support for the Mac. Steamworks for the Mac supports all of the Steamworks APIs, and we have added a new feature, called Steam Play, which allows customers who purchase the product for the Mac or Windows to play on the other platform free of charge. For example, Steam Play, in combination with the Steam Cloud, allows a gamer playing on their work PC to go home and pick up playing the same game at the same point on their home Mac. We expect most developers and publishers to take advantage of Steam Play.

 

Josh Weier, Portal 2 Project Lead, has also confirmed that the next installment of Portal will be released on the Mac and PC simultaneously this winter:

 

Checking in code produces a PC build and Mac build at the same time, automatically, so the two platforms are perfectly in lock-step. We're always playing a native version on the Mac right alongside the PC. This makes it very easy for us and for anyone using Source to do game development for the Mac.

 

 

 

Via [Steam]

 



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+1 # ...Ryan F. 2010-03-09 01:24
Finally, the Mac got some Valve loving. Hopefully, the PS3's next...

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# RE: Valve brings Steam to MacMangoScango 2010-03-09 02:12
The fuck is all these MS exclusives getting mac ports for??

Who owns a mac to game???? seriously!?

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# FagGuest 2010-03-09 02:24
Mac OS X is the second most distributed OS.

Why make dumb comments and expect not to get flamed?

I know heaps of people that own Macs, me being one, along with my brother and mother, we also have a gaming PC and a HP laptop.

Thats 3 Macs in one house, imagine how many there are out there..
wowwww what you can find out if you just think for a second..

retard.

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+1 # Many...Jack450 2010-03-09 02:52
Quoting MangoScango:
The fuck is all these MS exclusives getting mac ports for??

Who owns a mac to game???? seriously!?


I know many people own a Mac but want to play games cause the GPU can either handle it or can handle it with some -med graphics. I see many Mac users use Wine(Linux) to get games like TF2, L4D1-2, FEAR2 running on their Mac.
I do hope that Valve makes a port for Linux, they might as well if they are going to use OpenGL.

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# RE: Many...Musev 2010-03-09 08:02
True, theres loads of idiots that bought a mac to be trendy rather than just for specific tasks like editing and art which is what they are good for. you probably mean those types.

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+1 # pffchuck.fx 2010-03-09 10:50
mac sucks anyways

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# RE: pffjrbergeron 2010-03-09 23:55
Quoting chuck.fx:
mac sucks anyways


Valve doesn't think so. :D

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+1 # we need some Linux loveGuest 2010-03-09 12:05
I'd rather have Steam for Linux:(

I want to play Counter Strike and the Orange Box natively on my Ubuntu install

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# HmmJack450 2010-03-09 13:32
I'm not a big fan of the Mac but I'm supporting the idea, once they start using OpenGL the Linux port is done. I've played Quake4, Doom3, Quake Wars and those games ran perfect on my Ubuntu laptop.

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