nozz93 Posted March 14, 2010 Share Posted March 14, 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 jasonh@valvesoftware.com. Source: Steam News This is just awesome! Edit: Just found this news in the Reader News section.. Well, but not in the Mac Games section :] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Espionage724 Posted March 15, 2010 Share Posted March 15, 2010 This is awesome! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cindori Posted March 15, 2010 Share Posted March 15, 2010 about 2 weeks old news, but awesome nonetheleess Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zeroxcuber Posted March 19, 2010 Share Posted March 19, 2010 if this is just an april fools joke, i might seriously cry. but that would be too cruel of them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
level1geek Posted March 19, 2010 Share Posted March 19, 2010 And this happens just I was considering abandoning Macs because there aren't any Mac laptops with decent graphics cards! Maybe I'll have to figure out how to put together a Hackintosh laptop. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cherrykid13 Posted March 27, 2010 Share Posted March 27, 2010 Steam for Mac Beta sign-ups are up. http://store.steampowered.com/macbeta/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rufus Sweetwater Posted March 28, 2010 Share Posted March 28, 2010 How long till Portal 2 and the new half-life series comes out? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
invisiblesurfer Posted March 31, 2010 Share Posted March 31, 2010 So is steam going to support all games available to the pc users? (eg Bad Company 2) EDIT Supposed to be launched on April! Any updates????????????? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rinoaa52r Posted April 6, 2010 Share Posted April 6, 2010 So is steam going to support all games available to the pc users? (eg Bad Company 2) EDIT Supposed to be launched on April! Any updates????????????? I read where they said that Valve will be supporting their own games (e.g.. HL2, Portal). I would figure that any mac support from the other game makers on steam will have to port the games over. All around it is a good thing though because I remember in a press conference when the original halflife came out Valve said that they was working for a time on a port of hl but scrapped it. They said that os x was too hard to program in. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigrubber Posted April 10, 2010 Share Posted April 10, 2010 That's wicked, I've always used crossover but if this came to life it would be nice to have newer games working Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jeffmanster Posted April 10, 2010 Share Posted April 10, 2010 Anybody give the beta a shot? With a hackintosh? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
atlee Posted April 11, 2010 Share Posted April 11, 2010 Anybody give the beta a shot? With a hackintosh? its not released yet but yes everyone will. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edvahass Posted April 11, 2010 Share Posted April 11, 2010 How long till Portal 2 and the new half-life series comes out? Portal 2 is set for release sometime in october - 23rd, I think. No one knows when the next HL-game will come though - and Valve doesn't talk about it yet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beerkex'd Posted April 14, 2010 Share Posted April 14, 2010 Anyone signed up for the Steam beta using a Hackintosh? I was wondering because they ask for a System Profiler dump when you fill in the form, and it will be obvious to them that it doesn't come from a real Mac. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PhillOS Posted April 14, 2010 Share Posted April 14, 2010 Sweet! Looks like we'll finally be able to play some of those awesome games... err.. i've been playing on my windows machine for years.. hm.. nice anyway Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buster3312 Posted April 14, 2010 Share Posted April 14, 2010 now I can fully utilize the gfx card on my hackintosh XD Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scottapotamas Posted April 16, 2010 Share Posted April 16, 2010 i got the beta... using a system profiler dump from my mac pro... It works well with osx on a real mac pro... but there are still quite a few bugs that need ironing out for the hack... like the way that hl2 uses over 200% of my CPU and results in a KP... Maybe the hack needs something extra? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt_28 Posted April 19, 2010 Share Posted April 19, 2010 Good to see Mac OS getting more games now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Timdphotos Posted April 20, 2010 Share Posted April 20, 2010 i got the beta... using a system profiler dump from my mac pro... It works well with osx on a real mac pro... but there are still quite a few bugs that need ironing out for the hack... like the way that hl2 uses over 200% of my CPU and results in a KP... Maybe the hack needs something extra? what are the stats of your mac pro, i wanna know if it could run on mine? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scottapotamas Posted April 21, 2010 Share Posted April 21, 2010 its the one listed here http://www.everymac.com/systems/apple/mac_...2008-specs.html 2.8ghz x 2 with 12gb ram and 21t hard drives... That said, the steam beta should run on the iMac's and the macbooks... More precisely said, the steam 'client' should run on any mac... its the games that would benefit from a better config... I just can't see a mac mini running tf2 on anything higher than low on a large res screen... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Timdphotos Posted April 21, 2010 Share Posted April 21, 2010 no chance then, where is the link to sign up for the beta though i searched but couldn't find it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scottapotamas Posted April 21, 2010 Share Posted April 21, 2010 its posted earlier in the topic... that said, its a private beta and they only take people with hardware and games in their list that interests them... a friend with a simillar mac pro and macbook (they ask for all the types of hardware you have) got rejected because he only had TF2 and l4d, whereas I have most of the source collection Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
frefrefrer Posted April 23, 2010 Share Posted April 23, 2010 hi i m Hackintosh user And i tested New Steam Beta On my 10.5.8 here r some screenshots Snapshot_2010_04_23_09_43_52.tiff Snapshot_2010_04_23_09_44_22.tiff Snapshot_2010_04_23_09_45_30.tiff Snapshot_2010_04_23_09_45_30.tiff Snapshot_2010_04_23_09_47_21.tiff saddest part is that i cant play any time saying game is not supported on this platform yet but still soon we get to play majority of hl and hl2 games Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beerkex'd Posted May 4, 2010 Share Posted May 4, 2010 LOL.. don't waste your time with the leaked beta.. It plays a funny alarm sound and shows this message: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Timdphotos Posted May 4, 2010 Share Posted May 4, 2010 Found the link, thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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