“The developer has released a series of images “in anticipation of an upcoming announcement from Valve,” giving some of its most recognizable franchises the Apple treatment,” McWhertor reports. “That includes Gordon Freeman from Half-Life in an iMac colored HEV suit (complete with obscured Apple logo), Team Fortress 2’s Heavy—and Sandvich—in iPod ad form, a pair of turrets from TF2 and Portal doing the ‘I’m a PC’ thing, and Left 4 Dead’s Francis expressing how much he hates ‘different.'”
McWhertor reports, “Is this heralding the seemingly inevitable Steam for Mac announcement? Or will Valve go further, adding actual Mac OS X support for some of its Source engine games? As a Mac owner, I’ll take just about anything.”
Full article, with the images, here.
Steam is a game?
For those not in the know, Steam of the iTunes of game delivery on PC’s. It is far and away the largest distributor of games via the internet. Having Steam on a Mac would be a HUGE portal to the gaming community on OS X.
The only reason I run windows7 is so I can play left 4 dead 2. Please port it to Mac!
this will be a welcome change for me. I bought all my pc games on steam and my gaming rig died (duh, windows crap) so I will be very happy to have steam on my mac. crossover is bleh.
Hopefully they will port over alot of games from pc to mac, and for free to users who already have the pc version. Thats what I’m hoping to see!
and what Loru said above. This will be huge.
Forget left for dead-I want Xcom!
I thought Steam was an iPhone app…
Never thought I would see the day when I CAN HAZ STEAM?
Steam is an extremely high quality software delivery and update system that is used exclusively for games.
Valve are one of the premier PC / Xbox 360 game developers with a catalogue of AAA titles.
These two things coming to Apple Mac OS X is truly great news — one of the two reasons I still have a Windows partition is because of Steam and Valves games.
I will likely repurchase them again on the Mac platform.
This means Windows will only be used for Excel (the real version, not the crappy version).
@ Msavwah
Boot Camp flies. It can even be found for free. I have an Apple sanctified free copy I woud give away as I never used it before getting my macbook.
it was for 10.4
Or Wait like your current plan says to do.
@ Msavwah
Boot Camp flies. It can even be found for free. I have an Apple sanctified free copy I woud give away as I never used it before getting my macbook.
it was for 10.4
Or Wait like your current plan says to do.
Steam on my Mac please.
It’s a lie. Like the cake.
Won’t be worth anything if they use Cider to port things.
I must be getting old..I don’t recognize any of this stuff.
MDN: Your BING popup ads SUCK. Turn them off or tell us how to!
Ok. So Steam is a fantastic game delivery system akin to iTunes for media.
Just because Steam can deliver a game though, does that mean the game will be compatible on the Mac?
I.e. would Steam for the Mac just not have as many games as the version for the PC?
@Buster
Me too heh.
And I play lots of games.
@Spudly… the ads come from Vibrant.
If you’re like me, you have a habit of unconsciously moving your mouse through text as you read. This can make you nuts as those ads pop up.
The Vibrant ads have a question mark you can click on. It will take you to their website and they will allow you to disable the ads by installing a cookie.
Then you can live with the guilt of not helping our favorite Macintosh news aggregator make $$$!
These images make it seem like Valve ported Half-Life 2, Portal and Left 4 Dead to OS X. Let’s hope they get released soon.
As for Steam, it would be great to buy games for OS X through it but why is Apple not doing the same thing with iTunes? There should be a Mac Apps section in it at some point.
Also looks like they ported Team Fortress 2 to Mac too.
From the artwork they have supplied to various games sites, hopefully we are about to get Mac OS X native:
Half-Life 2
Half-Life 2: Episode 1
Half-Life 2: Episode 2
Portal
Team Fortress 2
Left-4-Dead
Left-4-Dead 2
If you don’t know how good those games are, you are in for a treat.
Steam also hosts PopCap’s catalogue, and many other games publishers entire catalogues; a central portal to purchase games on the Mac would be a very good thing indeed.
Right now it’s OSX versions of Steam (Valve’s content delivery system), Source (engine), their Orange Box titles (Team Fortress 2, Portal, Half Life 2 and episodes), and Left 4 Dead 2.
*Hopefully* with the ability on Steam (OSX) to install it, and download this content if you have a PC-based Steam account and these games, and run the games without paying again. Even if you had to pay again as an OSX user, Steam usually has fantastic pricing on games.
The benefits here are many: OSX will have it’s profile raised among game developers who distribute on Steam and therefore we might see more games; OSX game devs will have access to a great online distribution system for their games (and see increased sales), etc.
This does NOT mean that every game available on Steam will run in OSX, as I’ve seen speculated. As much as playing Company of Heroes natively in OS appeals, that’s not happening here.
But team on OSX is a huge start and boost for OSX gaming.
Steam coming to the mac would be great, but the real thumbs up would be for the Valve game catalog to come too. That would be huge for mac gaming to have someone other than Blizzard (bless them!) releasing native titles.
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All I want to say is “Day of Defeat: Source.”
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