Valve announced today it will bring Steam, Valve's gaming service, and Source, Valve's gaming engine, to the Mac.
Steam and Valve's library of games including Left 4 Dead 2, Team Fortress 2, Counter-Strike, Portal, and the Half-Life series will be available in April.
Portal 2 will be Valve's first simultaneous release for Mac and Windows. "Checking in code produces a PC build and Mac build at the same time, automatically, so the two platforms are perfectly in lock-step," said Josh Weier, Portal 2 Project Lead. "We're always playing a native version on the Mac right alongside the PC. This makes it very easy for us and for anyone using Source to do game development for the Mac."
Support for the Mac in Source and Steamworks is available to third parties immediately. Interested developers should contact Jason Holtman at jasonh@valvesoftware.com.
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This is probably the biggest bit:
This will actually give people with Windows versions a reason to download Steam onto their Macs if they own both systems."Steamworks for the Mac supports all of the Steamworks APIs, and we have added a new feature, called Steam Play, which allows customers who purchase the product for the Mac or Windows to play on the other platform free of charge.
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Re: Steam and the Source engine coming to Mac
Indeed.
It now only needs Linux support and the Holy Trinity will be complete, opening the heavens and bringing us to gaming nirvana. Steam Powered Gaming Nirvana!
It now only needs Linux support and the Holy Trinity will be complete, opening the heavens and bringing us to gaming nirvana. Steam Powered Gaming Nirvana!
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Whoo! This is good news for me and my MacBook Pro. Hopefully the third-party games will eventually be supported, since the only game I have running the Source engine is TF2. Then I won't have to boot to Windows as much.
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Re: Steam and the Source engine coming to Mac
LordOskuro wrote:Indeed.
It now only needs Linux support
You mean like OSX?
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There's a few third party games on Steam that already have OSX versions. It's just a matter of their developers adding in Steam support and BAM. (The Monkey Island games and Civ games come to mind).Scottish Ninja wrote:Whoo! This is good news for me and my MacBook Pro. Hopefully the third-party games will eventually be supported, since the only game I have running the Source engine is TF2. Then I won't have to boot to Windows as much.
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The great thing about gaming on a Mac is that you know which games are worth buying since they came out on PC several years ago.
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Re: Steam and the Source engine coming to Mac
adam_grif wrote:The great thing about gaming on a MacPC is that you know which games are worth buying since they came out on PCthe consoles several years ago.
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Halo / 2 comes to mind, and the delayed-by-a-few-months AC2 port, but generally speaking PC gets it very close to console ports. It also works in reverse, with the PC getting TF2 etc before consoles did.
A scientist once gave a public lecture on astronomy. He described how the Earth orbits around the sun and how the sun, in turn, orbits around the centre of a vast collection of stars called our galaxy.
At the end of the lecture, a little old lady at the back of the room got up and said: 'What you have told us is rubbish. The world is really a flat plate supported on the back of a giant tortoise.
The scientist gave a superior smile before replying, 'What is the tortoise standing on?'
'You're very clever, young man, very clever,' said the old lady. 'But it's turtles all the way down.'
At the end of the lecture, a little old lady at the back of the room got up and said: 'What you have told us is rubbish. The world is really a flat plate supported on the back of a giant tortoise.
The scientist gave a superior smile before replying, 'What is the tortoise standing on?'
'You're very clever, young man, very clever,' said the old lady. 'But it's turtles all the way down.'
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Re: Steam and the Source engine coming to Mac
Now I'm jealous. Direct2Drive is having a huge sale on all their Mac games.