• Play Valve, Steam Games on Apple Mac Now

    Play Valve, Steam Games on Apple Mac Now

    Techtree News Staff, Mar 09, 2010 1600 hrs IST

    Four existing Valve titles would be made available through Steam for Mac in April

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Finally, video game developer and distributor Valve has announced that it will bring its game distribution service Steam and gaming engine Source to the Mac platform. Few of the existing Valve and Steam games like Left 4 Dead 2, Team Fortress 2, Counter-Strike, Portal and the Half-life series would be available through Stream for Mac in April.

Recent reports and scanned photos from Game Informer's April issue already indicated that Steam and Valve games are coming for the Mac platform. Portal 2 would be Valve's first game that would be released on PC and Mac platform simultaneously. This game will run natively and won't require any sort of emulation software client. Furthermore, both PC and Mac based gamers can join the same multiplayer environment.

With Steamworks for Mac suite, Valve aims to release all future games simultaneously on Windows, Mac and Xbox 360 platforms. Now, we've to wait and see if any iPhone and iPad specific games would also be introduced.

The Steam Play feature will allow customers to play same games on both the platforms (Mac and PC) for free with the help of Steam Cloud. This means that if a game is purchased for PC then Steam Play with Steam Cloud will allow playing the same game from the same point on Mac system without purchasing it again.

Valve already has a strong market of digital games distribution on PC through its Steam service and bringing existing set of popular games on Mac platform will certainly fetch them brownie points.


 

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(5) Comments
donald
,minneapolis, on Mar 10, 2010 01:22 AM
Current apple issues aside... this won't be great me thinks. Honesty, I understand what valve wants, but I doubt mac users would understand. Mac !== DirectX. Almost all of the video industry for the pc is directx, not opengl. Valve, id and maybe one or two other main industry developers release games in opengl. What this means: no crysis for mac, no mw. Yes you get tons of great games from valve and id, but I'm not sure the popular games will be making it...
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shmuli
,mianus, on Mar 15, 2010 04:50 PM
mw is already on mac newfag
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kain
,gold coast, on Apr 05, 2010 11:27 AM
mw2 is on mac already lol
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Rich
,Dallas, on Mar 09, 2010 07:50 PM
Your title says "Play Valve, Steam Games on Apple Mac Now". How do we do that? Play the games on a mac Now? A bit misleading since your entire article represents a future release.
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Alexis Sandoval
,The Dalles, on Mar 09, 2010 04:51 PM
i personaly have no feelings torwards this since i run my games on bootcamp and i also like to use my gammepad nontheless it would not hurt to try. Hell the performance may even change positivly.
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