Wednesday, May 12th 2010
Steam for Mac Available, Valve Gives Away Copies of Portal
Valve today officially introduced the Steam for Mac. The popular game content distribution and multiplayer game networking platform will bring a wealth of casual games as well as games developed by Valve to Mac users. To celebrate this launch, Valve is giving away a free copy of Portal to anyone who downloads Steam between today and May 24, 2010. Existing steam users who don't have the game yet can simply click on the install button on the game's Store page.
"The Mac is a great platform for developers," said Gabe Newell, president of Valve. "And it's also great that we now have the ability to connect with Mac gamers via Steam. This is the beginning of a groundswell of games coming out for and fully utilizing the openness and power of the Mac." Each Wednesday a new group of games highlighting an area of Steam functionality will be released. This week's titles, which show off Steam Play, include:
And Yet It Moves
Atlantis Sky Patrol
Bejeweled 2 Deluxe
Bob Came in Pieces
Bookworm Deluxe
Braid
Brainpipe
Chocolatier: Decadence by Design
Chuzzle Deluxe
City of Heroes: Architect Edition
Civilization IV: The Complete Edition
Cooking Dash
Diaper Dash
The Dig
Diner Dash: Hometown Hero
DinerTown Detective Agency
DinerTown Tycoon
Dream Chronicles: The Chosen Child
Escape Rosecliff Island
Fairway Solitaire
Fitness Dash
Football Manager 10
Galcon Fusion
Gemini Lost
Guns of Icarus
Hotel Dash Suite Success
Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
KrissX
Loom
Luxor
Luxor 3
Luxor: Mahjong
Machinarium
Mahjong Roadshow
Max and the Magic Marker
My Tribe
The Nightshift Code
Nightshift Legacy: The Jaguar's Eye
Parking Dash
Peggle Deluxe
Peggle Nights
Portal
Professor Fizzwizzle and the Molten Mystery
Quantz
Sam & Max: The Devil's Playhouse
Tales of Monkey Island Season 1
Toki Tori
Torchlight
Trijinx: A Kristine Kross Mystery
Unwell Mel
Valarie Porter and the Scarlett Scandal
Wandering Willows
Wedding Dash 2: Rings Around the World
World of Goo
Zenerchi
Zuma Deluxe
"The Mac is a great platform for developers," said Gabe Newell, president of Valve. "And it's also great that we now have the ability to connect with Mac gamers via Steam. This is the beginning of a groundswell of games coming out for and fully utilizing the openness and power of the Mac." Each Wednesday a new group of games highlighting an area of Steam functionality will be released. This week's titles, which show off Steam Play, include:
And Yet It Moves
Atlantis Sky Patrol
Bejeweled 2 Deluxe
Bob Came in Pieces
Bookworm Deluxe
Braid
Brainpipe
Chocolatier: Decadence by Design
Chuzzle Deluxe
City of Heroes: Architect Edition
Civilization IV: The Complete Edition
Cooking Dash
Diaper Dash
The Dig
Diner Dash: Hometown Hero
DinerTown Detective Agency
DinerTown Tycoon
Dream Chronicles: The Chosen Child
Escape Rosecliff Island
Fairway Solitaire
Fitness Dash
Football Manager 10
Galcon Fusion
Gemini Lost
Guns of Icarus
Hotel Dash Suite Success
Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
KrissX
Loom
Luxor
Luxor 3
Luxor: Mahjong
Machinarium
Mahjong Roadshow
Max and the Magic Marker
My Tribe
The Nightshift Code
Nightshift Legacy: The Jaguar's Eye
Parking Dash
Peggle Deluxe
Peggle Nights
Portal
Professor Fizzwizzle and the Molten Mystery
Quantz
Sam & Max: The Devil's Playhouse
Tales of Monkey Island Season 1
Toki Tori
Torchlight
Trijinx: A Kristine Kross Mystery
Unwell Mel
Valarie Porter and the Scarlett Scandal
Wandering Willows
Wedding Dash 2: Rings Around the World
World of Goo
Zenerchi
Zuma Deluxe
62 Comments on Steam for Mac Available, Valve Gives Away Copies of Portal
plus the post ontop and below me(sounds kind of dirty if you think of it)
and now below yours as well.
Those ads started out unfunny, and got unfunnier until they were so unfunny, they were actually funny, but not because they were any good, but because they were just that bad.
I'm actually going to admit, I at first hated the Microsoft 7/8 second ads, but some are pretty witty, and definitely better than just bashing the competition.
Still, I <3 my MBP *stroke*
I just have a debate with them until they give up, but for some reason what i tell them isnt enough to make them convert to pc, or convert back. Probably cuz they payed a premium for something i could of payed alot less for.
You wouldn't want Steam on 360 or anything where you could play with XBL players. Don't know why? Play a few games of L4D on XBL. Its like the players congealed out of a vat of boomer bile.
@Necrofire: Games that use Steam's middleware/API/whatever, are sort of ported automatically. I believe they made it originally with the plans for making it portable, so graphics calls were handled by the API, and then were sent to either DirectX or OpenGL. That explains why it works easily. There are a lot of casual games that are available for Mac, so the other available games on Steam are simply the Mac version being downloaded, rather than the PC version, both of which are on Steam servers I figure.
@NC37: Those will probably be coming in the next few weeks, there'll be new releases on Wednesdays. I assume so that they can show off new Steam features each week. I like the fact it's Portal and all, but I think multiplayer games for Steam Play would have been more effective. For example; Play a few rounds on your work Mac at lunch (when the boss isn't looking), go home, and continue on your PC. Although they might be displaying the advantage of Steam Cloud for this, so you have your tags, keyboard and mouse settings, etc all stored remotely for you.
annnyway, back to portal talk?