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[Jensonb]

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."

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Great news! Now all us Mac users can play some of the best computer games with our PC friends! I for one can't wait to get Steam for OS X and get into playing with my PC-wielding friends. Yay for a sense of community!

[Gaz]

they need to put all OSX players with a tag so we can tell that there using a mac

Since PC players will know not to gloat so much when they are beat them since they are disadvantaged by using a mac.

[Jensonb]

they need to put all OSX players with a tag so we can tell that there using a mac

Since PC players will know not to gloat so much when they are beat them since they are disadvantaged by using a mac.

[bud]

they need to put all OSX players with a tag so we can tell that there using a mac

Since PC players will know not to gloat so much when they are beat them since they are disadvantaged by using a mac.

most Mac users are above using their machine for gaming purposes, PC gamers usually have no job and a lot of spare time between welfare payments and have no other use for their computer other than gaming

[darwin dali]

they need to put all OSX players with a tag so we can tell that there using a mac

Since PC players will know not to gloat so much when they are beat them since they are disadvantaged by using a mac.

most Mac users are above using their machine for gaming purposes, PC gamers usually have no job and a lot of spare time between welfare payments and have no other use for their computer other than gaming

A bit harsh

[Jensonb]

At any rate, I'm really looking forward to this.

[Gaz]

they need to put all OSX players with a tag so we can tell that there using a mac

Since PC players will know not to gloat so much when they are beat them since they are disadvantaged by using a mac.

most Mac users are above using their machine for gaming purposes, PC gamers usually have no job and a lot of spare time between welfare payments and have no other use for their computer other than gaming

Most Mac users sit in coffee shops while on welfare but they don't need a job because there writing there f*cking novel and updating the blog about themselfs which technicaly is a job because there so self important it takes them all bloody day.

[darwin dali]

they need to put all OSX players with a tag so we can tell that there using a mac

Since PC players will know not to gloat so much when they are beat them since they are disadvantaged by using a mac.

most Mac users are above using their machine for gaming purposes, PC gamers usually have no job and a lot of spare time between welfare payments and have no other use for their computer other than gaming

Most Mac users sit in coffee shops while on welfare but they don't need a job because there writing there f*cking novel and updating the blog about themselfs which technicaly is a job because there so self important it takes them all bloody day.

A bit harsh

[bud]

they need to put all OSX players with a tag so we can tell that there using a mac

Since PC players will know not to gloat so much when they are beat them since they are disadvantaged by using a mac.

most Mac users are above using their machine for gaming purposes, PC gamers usually have no job and a lot of spare time between welfare payments and have no other use for their computer other than gaming

Most Mac users sit in coffee shops while on welfare but they don't need a job because there writing there f*cking novel and updating the blog about themselfs which technicaly is a job because there so self important it takes them all bloody day.

ive got my novel out shortly. entitled carving up the lambs - a how to handle Ferrari fanatics

[Jensonb]

they need to put all OSX players with a tag so we can tell that there using a mac

Since PC players will know not to gloat so much when they are beat them since they are disadvantaged by using a mac.

most Mac users are above using their machine for gaming purposes, PC gamers usually have no job and a lot of spare time between welfare payments and have no other use for their computer other than gaming

Most Mac users sit in coffee shops while on welfare but they don't need a job because there writing there f*cking novel and updating the blog about themselfs which technicaly is a job because there so self important it takes them all bloody day.

I hate coffee and I don't write, I make videos.

[Gaz]

they need to put all OSX players with a tag so we can tell that there using a mac

Since PC players will know not to gloat so much when they are beat them since they are disadvantaged by using a mac.

most Mac users are above using their machine for gaming purposes, PC gamers usually have no job and a lot of spare time between welfare payments and have no other use for their computer other than gaming

Most Mac users sit in coffee shops while on welfare but they don't need a job because there writing there f*cking novel and updating the blog about themselfs which technicaly is a job because there so self important it takes them all bloody day.

ive got my novel out shortly. entitled carving up the lambs - a how to handle Ferrari fanatics

can't want to read it sounds amazing.