Counter-Strike Source out for Mac

Just in case you missed it yesterday, Counter-Strike is now available ... wait for it ... for the Mac. Yes, possibly the most premiere PC game of all time is now playable (specifically the Source version) natively on the Mac, thanks to Valve's own Steam distribution service. And it's another Steam Play title, which means that if you own it on the PC (which you probably do if you've ever played FPS games in your life), you can download and play it right now on the Mac as well. You can even play cross-platform, so your buddies on the PC can finally let you into their clan -- assuming you're leet enough.

Just in case you don't own it, the game is also on sale right now for under $7. I tweeted on our @TUAW account last night that this might be the last big title in the Source library for the Mac (along with Half-Life and Team Fortress 2), but many of our followers correctly pointed out that we haven't seen Left 4 Dead or its sequel released on our platform yet, so stay tuned for that. A few of you also complained that Day of Defeat hadn't been brought over to the Mac yet, and that's true as well, though I wouldn't quite consider that as "canon" as the other games. But whatever floats your boat -- the more games on our platform, the better.

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Luckolen

I was playing CSS on my iMac today, everything worked fine.
But the player that were playing the game for years on windows were saying that there preformance with windows had dropped and that a lot of stuff didn't work any more.

I can't confirm the windows prestation drop, because when I wanted to instal on windows with bootcamp I got the message that the servers were busy and that I had to try later. (maybe working on a update)

June 25 2010 at 5:31 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

bluem00se

Does anyone know if this will run on my white Macbook (late 2007 model, 2.2 GHz, 4 GB RAM)? I looked up the specs for Mac on Steam but I don't know how the integrated graphics power (or lack thereof) on my Macbook holds up against the minimum graphics requirements (GeForce 8 or higher, or ATI X1600 or higher).

June 25 2010 at 12:15 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Skoalbandit

Runs pretty good compared to the other source games on my iMac. Much better than Team Fortress 2.

June 24 2010 at 11:05 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

glebec

Oh dear, there goes my productivity. The "Gungame" mod especially brings back memories... soooooooo much wasted time...

June 24 2010 at 10:17 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Otsego_Undead

Dr. Dre, can I get a "Hell Yeah"?

Give me DoD:S and Natural Selection 2 and all will be right with the Mac gaming world.

June 24 2010 at 8:06 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

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Norman

Hooray for natural selection 2 !! (if it ever comes out! :P)

June 25 2010 at 10:20 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

kcdtech

Back in 2006 when I switched to mac, CS was the only reason I ran BootCamp.

Happy to finally see it released on the mac via Steam. This mod/game has been one of my favorites since it came out back in 99.

Shout out to all the people who played CS on dial-up and a 3dfx Voodoo 2!

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Mike Schramm

Change dial-up to "LAN party where you dragged your computer across town," and that's me.

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