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Zen Bound 2 arrives on the Mac via Steam

by Mike Schramm (Nov 17th, 2010)

Zen Bound 2, the second in the series of terrific iPhone and iPad games, is now out on the Mac platform as well, courtesy of Valve's great Steam platform. If you've ever played this one (and you definitely should), you'll know how it works -- wrap a virtual rope around a series of weird shapes ...

TUAW's Holiday Gift Guide: 10 must-have apps for a new Mac

by Dave Caolo (Nov 12th, 2010)

Welcome to the TUAW Holiday Gift Guide! We've sorted the treasure from the junk and are serving up suggestions to make your holiday gift-giving a little easier. Once the gift-giving holidays arrive, the lucky among us will find new Macs among our haul. Part of the fun of owning a Mac is acquiring ...

Valve releases the original Left 4 Dead just in time for Halloween

by Michael Grothaus (Oct 28th, 2010)

I just got done playing a level of Left 4 Dead 2 on my MacBook Pro when I saw this: Valve has released the original Left 4 Dead for Mac OS X. Valve originally released the sequel, Left 4 Dead 2, for the Mac on October 5th, promising the first one would come in time for Halloween. The reason for ...

Report: Steve Jobs was 'furious' over Microsoft's acquisition of Bungie

by Mike Schramm (Oct 26th, 2010)

Apple hasn't shown a lot of initiative on the gaming side of things (this past "Back to the Mac" event was the first time the company even mentioned Steam coming to the Mac, something even Valve has admitted is a huge deal), but apparently Steve Jobs still has somewhat of a competitive ...

After iLife '11 analysis: Uncertain future for iWeb, no future for iDVD

by Michael Grothaus (Oct 21st, 2010)

Yesterday's announcement of iLife '11 brought some cool new features across the suite... well, most of the suite anyway. As many people have noticed, only iPhoto, iMovie, and Garage Band were updated. iWeb and iDVD got no love besides small code changes that make them compatible with the new ...

Civilization V coming to OS X soon

by Chris Rawson (Oct 7th, 2010)

Remember when Civilization IV came out, and Mac users had to wait nearly a year for the game to come to OS X? You'd be forgiven for thinking the same thing would happen with Civilization V, especially since there's been no official word from either Firaxis or 2K on when the turn-based strategy epic ...

Left 4 Dead 2 coming to the Mac this Tuesday

by Mike Schramm (Oct 4th, 2010)

This is it -- the rumors were true! The last non-Mac holdout of Valve's Source titles is Left 4 Dead, the zombie-killing shooter featuring four survivors and a whole lot of undead, but that's about to change. The official site for the newest Left 4 Dead 2 downloadable content, "The Sacrifice," ...

Garry's Mod out for Mac

by Mike Schramm (Sep 23rd, 2010)

Valve has released another Steam Play Mac title, and this time it's Garry's Mod, the wild sandbox physics editor that uses assets from Half Life 2 to create whatever you want. The mod is probably most famous for its Rube Goldberg-style creations, but it's also very handy for machinima and other ...

Rumor: Left 4 Dead on the Mac by October 5?

by Mike Schramm (Sep 15th, 2010)

Left 4 Dead is the last promised Valve title to see release on Steam for Mac, and yet we haven't heard anything about an official release date. Valve was moving along pretty well for a while there, releasing games for our platform every Wednesday. But they've petered out lately, leaving a lot of ...

Steam releases Mac stats, share drops to 5%

by Mike Schramm (Aug 25th, 2010)

Steam has released its latest hardware survey results, and there's both good and bad news for us Mac gamers. The bad news first: Mac usage of the gaming service has apparently leveled off since the big debut a few months ago, and while the Mac share was originally around 8%, it appears the novelty ...

Valve talks gaming on the Mac, says best is yet to come

by Mike Schramm (Aug 6th, 2010)

Valve's Jason Holtman and Doug Lombardi recently sat down with GamesIndustry.biz to discuss their big release of Steam on the Mac, and not only do they reiterate that great stat that games released on the Mac see a nice bump in sales, but they say that the best days of Mac gaming are yet to come. ...

Valve to release GL code, games on Mac see sales bumps

by Mike Schramm (Jul 30th, 2010)

Boy, if you had to choose one company (including Apple) that has really led the charge for Mac gaming recently, I'd have to say Valve takes the cake, and that's no lie. Not only has the company brought an unprecedented set of quality titles to the Mac with Steam, but it's now announced that it will ...

Day of Defeat now available for the Mac

by Mike Schramm (Jul 13th, 2010)

One more classic Steam title has been added to the Mac lineup -- Day of Defeat is now available on the OS X version of Steam. It's a Source-engine WWII multiplayer shooter that's not quite as popular as Counter-Strike or Team Fortress 2 (both of which are also available on the Mac at this point), ...

Crazy summer Steam sale includes some fantastic Mac games

by Chris White (Jun 28th, 2010)

The PC gaming community has long enjoyed the ridiculously awesome Steam sales Valve loves to break out during holidays and at other fun times of the year. The sales deliver game bundles for crazy cheap prices, even on AAA current titles. Steam's summer sale kicked off a couple of days ago. For ...

Counter-Strike Source out for Mac

by Mike Schramm (Jun 24th, 2010)

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 ...