Dirty Posted March 9, 2010 Share Posted March 9, 2010 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 at [email protected]. More... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
n0ne Posted March 9, 2010 Share Posted March 9, 2010 Yea, I read this on Engadget. Let the smug cloud roll in... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Artillery Posted March 9, 2010 Share Posted March 9, 2010 It'll mean more gamers... well kind of. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ttaM Posted March 9, 2010 Share Posted March 9, 2010 Old news you bot. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fdh Posted March 9, 2010 Share Posted March 9, 2010 This bot is obsolete with the cutting technology we have today. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DarkHelmet Posted March 9, 2010 Share Posted March 9, 2010 Great, now we'll have arrogant mac owners in game. Their goes the gaming community as we know it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ttaM Posted March 9, 2010 Share Posted March 9, 2010 They're goes r education Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DarkHelmet Posted March 9, 2010 Share Posted March 9, 2010 (edited) If you wanna own a mac,fine.I've just found MAC owners to be arrogant and less than knowledgeable about computers other than what MAC has told them.Like MAC's never get viruses and never lag or get bogged down by programs and so forth.Plus, you are over paying for MAC's anyways and god help you if you wanna upgrade your hardware.It will cost you a small fortune because most MAC owners believe only parts sold from and by MAC will work in their pc's or some how parts sold by MAC are the worlds best parts and never break. Edited March 9, 2010 by DarkHelmet Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ttaM Posted March 9, 2010 Share Posted March 9, 2010 Generalizations Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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