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#  Mar 08, 2010 at 5:05 PM
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Direct Link:    http://store.steampowered.com/news/3569/

Leading Gaming Service Expands to Mac Platform

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.

"As we transition from entertainment as a product to entertainment as a service, customers and developers need open, high-quality Internet clients," said Gabe Newell, President of Valve. "The Mac is a great platform for entertainment services."

"Our Steam partners, who are delivering over a thousand games to 25 million Steam clients, are very excited about adding support for the Mac," said Jason Holtman, Director of Business Development at Valve. "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. 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."

"We looked at a variety of methods to get our games onto the Mac and in the end decided to go with native versions rather than emulation," said John Cook, Director of Steam Development. "The inclusion of WebKit into Steam, and of OpenGL into Source gives us a lot of flexibility in how we move these technologies forward. We are treating the Mac as a tier-1 platform so all of our future games will release simultaneously on Windows, Mac, and the Xbox 360. Updates for the Mac will be available simultaneously with the Windows updates. Furthermore, Mac and Windows players will be part of the same multiplayer universe, sharing servers, lobbies, and so forth. We fully support a heterogeneous mix of servers and clients. The first Mac Steam client will be the new generation currently in beta testing on Windows."

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 atjasonh@valvesoftware.com.
#  Mar 08, 2010 at 5:29 PM
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I know Mac users are finally saying YES!

IF any mac users are gamers.

Seriously tho, if Valve is sucessful and this is really popular...
Windows users have one less bullet in the fanboy gun if people really latch onto it.
Maybe that's why the Steam GUI was updated...with MAC users in mind.
#  Mar 08, 2010 at 5:44 PM
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well another benefit is that source games will be able to run on opengl now... which leads to the possibility of being run on a native linux environment too...
#  Mar 08, 2010 at 6:28 PM
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I wanna see a Mac user play with the Magic Mouse
#  Mar 08, 2010 at 6:45 PM
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Kind of sounds like an oxymoron. Playing video games on macs.
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Steam with OpenGL = Finally LINUX GAMING WITHOUT A HITCH!

Edit: Damn, didn't read Cyrus' post
#  Mar 08, 2010 at 7:04 PM
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That would be great, it would finally liberate me to switch to Linux again. All Source games work on WINE almost perfectly, but full OpenGL support for the entire Steam library natively would be a godsend
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Yeah, this is actually a big win for Linux. The only reason I haven't switched yet is gaming, and Source/Stalker are the only games I play anymore.
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Now OS doesn't matter to me at all.

Kind of weird.
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Now the Mac Fags/Cool Kids will be screaming how cool HL2 is. What assholes

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