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Team Fortress 2 out for Mac Steam

by Mike Schramm (Jun 11th, 2010)

Valve has released Team Fortress 2 for the Mac, along with a funny little video trailer highlighting the old PC vs. Mac fanboy wars (and a great comic featuring the TF2 characters' first visit to the Apple Store). If you've never played TF2, you're in for a treat -- it's a multiplayer team-based ...

Steam for Mac beta set for May 12

by Mike Schramm (Apr 29th, 2010)

Steam for the Mac has been given a date: May 12th. We were hoping to see it by the time April ended, but they've pushed back the date to just a few scant weeks from today. So come the second Wednesday in May, you the public will be able to go and pick up the beta and see what the biggest digital ...

Purple Violets released exclusively on iTunes

by Mike Schramm (Nov 20th, 2007)

Ed Burns' film, Purple Violets, has become the first full-length feature movie ever to premiere via digital distribution on iTunes. As we reported before, he was unable to find a good theatrical offer, and instead chose to make history by bringing it straight to iTunes. Variety wasn't thrilled ...

Ed Burns premieres movie on iTunes, defends digital distribution for smaller features

by Mike Schramm (Sep 19th, 2007)

411Mania's got an interview up with actor and filmmaker Ed Burns, whose latest movie, Purple Violets, is going to be distributed exclusively through iTunes for four weeks. Apparently he says he had a couple of "half-assed theatrical offers" for it, but none of them panned out, so when iTunes ...