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good news if ur a mac gamer
Topic Started: Mar 8 2010, 10:31 PM (213 Views)
Alex V.1
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Steam is coming to you next month with its back cataloge of games and you get to play with\againest PC gamers and if you already have the PC version of a game they well give you the dl for the mac version FREE

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Valve announced today it will bring Steam, Valve's gaming service, and Source, Valve's gaming engine, to the Mac.

Steam and Valve's library of games including Left 4 Dead 2, Team Fortress 2, Counter-Strike, Portal, and the Half-Life series will be available in April.

"As we transition from entertainment as a product to entertainment as a service, customers and developers need open, high-quality Internet clients," said Gabe Newell, President of Valve. "The Mac is a great platform for entertainment services."

"Our Steam partners, who are delivering over a thousand games to 25 million Steam clients, are very excited about adding support for the Mac," said Jason Holtman, Director of Business Development at Valve. "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."

"We looked at a variety of methods to get our games onto the Mac and in the end decided to go with native versions rather than emulation," said John Cook, Director of Steam Development. "The inclusion of WebKit into Steam, and of OpenGL into Source gives us a lot of flexibility in how we move these technologies forward. We are treating the Mac as a tier-1 platform so all of our future games will release simultaneously on Windows, Mac, and the Xbox 360. Updates for the Mac will be available simultaneously with the Windows updates. Furthermore, Mac and Windows players will be part of the same multiplayer universe, sharing servers, lobbies, and so forth. We fully support a heterogeneous mix of servers and clients. The first Mac Steam client will be the new generation currently in beta testing on Windows."

Portal 2 will be Valve's first simultaneous release for Mac and Windows. "Checking in code produces a PC build and Mac build at the same time, automatically, so the two platforms are perfectly in lock-step," said Josh Weier, Portal 2 Project Lead. "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."
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All this means to me: Audiosurf in my lap.

This is kinda big for Mac. Not big enough though. Would be wonderful if they could open .exe files.
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Phixta Fernback
Mar 8 2010, 10:35 PM
All this means to me: Audiosurf in my lap.

This is kinda big for Mac. Not big enough though. Would be wonderful if they could open .exe files.
Audiosurf is a great game

ya i do agree that this is big for Mac'ers but i think its not big enough because the first similtanious release is gonna be Portal 2 and theres no date set for that yet
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Phixta Fernback
Mar 8 2010, 10:35 PM
Would be wonderful if they could open .exe files.
epic fail on mac's part
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Audiosurf is an amazing game. My music library turned into a game = awesome. Haven't played it in a while, gotta see if I can find it.
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