Valve: Steam, games coming to Mac in April

Valve announced on Monday that several of its popular titles, and both Steam and Storm, will be coming to the Mac in April. We anticipated this, based on the upcoming Gameinformer issue report, but now it's official!

Game titles we can expect to see include Left 4 Dead 2, Team Fortress 2, Counter-Strike, Portal, and the Half Life series. Even better news is that Valve intends to make simultaneous platform releases the norm from here on out. Expect Portal 2 to be the first game to be released on both Mac and PC at the same time.

Steam is Valve's digital delivery system for games (think iTunes for fragging); ~~Storm~~ Source is the game engine from the company [Editing error, sorry –Ed.]. The system's been ramped up to even greater heights of awesomeness with a new feature called Steam Play. What that does is let you purchase the game on one platform (PC or Mac) and play on the other free of charge.

It gets better. Valve's Jason Holtman explained how Steam Play and Steam Cloud work. "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."

Really? Are you kidding me?

Rumors of Steam coming to the Mac surfaced in February when users found OS X icons hidden within a beta version of the new UI for their system, and were all but confirmed when Valve themselves released these teasers. All that's left now is the hardest part: The waiting.

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Source: http://www.joystiq.com/2010/03/08/valve-confirms-mac-support…

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Thomas B.

i just...wow this is my favorite day

May 02 2010 at 12:03 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Yuusharo

I don't think the Steam Play feature can be pushed enough... One licence, plays on BOTH platforms. Are you kidding me?! Mac or Windows, it doesn't matter, you can play these really awesome games on the platform of your choice and they aren't sticking an added cost to the player. That's pure awesomeness.

Granted, sure, the Mac version may not look as good as their PC brethren, what with hardware and software limitations (DirectX vs whatever they're using on the Mac), and the initial availability of the Mac ports will be pretty low, but still, this is the first big push Macs have had towards gaming by a huge developer and publisher.

Better late than never. Every Mac owner should be excited by this!

March 09 2010 at 12:17 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

heinerv

so will cod : mw 2 also be aviable?

March 09 2010 at 8:57 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

michas_pi

The Source Engine powers Half-Life 2, not the "Storm" Engine.

March 08 2010 at 11:38 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

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Andy

I don't hive a rats crap about this whole gaming crap on the mac. That's what my ps3 is for. All I want us the god damn i7 MacBook pro you little bastards

March 08 2010 at 7:49 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

william

I'm skeptical about the performance of Valve Mac games (e.g. latest CD4:MW, World at War). I've always gotten faster frames per second on my Bootcamp partition. I hope Apple has made a serious effort to help Valve make Steam damn good.

March 08 2010 at 6:32 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

SireB

WOW. A whole 7 years late, but ok.

March 08 2010 at 5:57 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

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jweaver911

The Cake is not a lie!

March 08 2010 at 5:11 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Dennis

We play it at work for research and development. games.valador.com

March 08 2010 at 5:05 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Daniel D'Andrea