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Valve Teases Announcement with Mystery Images; Steam Coming to Mac?

by Chris Faylor, Mar 03, 2010 12:17pm PST

Related Topics – Team Fortress 2, , Rumor, Steam, Valve, PC, Mac, GDC 2010

A mysterious image from developer Valve--the company behind hits like Half-Life, Left 4 Dead, Portal and Team Fortress 2--just hit the Shacknews inbox: 04_Heavy_Sandvich.jpg

"In anticipation of an upcoming announcement from Valve," was all we were told.

Whatever's brewing at Valve--there's all sorts of Portal wackiness underway, and there have been indications that its digital distribution platform Steam might be making the leap to Mac--we're likely to hear more soon, as GDC 2010 kicks off next week.

Update: Two additional images have surfaced via MacRumors and MacNN, furthering speculation that Valve is bringing Steam and its games to Mac.

Update 2: Yet another image has arrived--this one via Rock, Paper, Shotgun--a facsimile of old Apple advertisements that all but confirms Steam is coming to Mac.

Update 3: Eurogamer brings us the fifth of the six images, portraying Left 4 Dead's Francis alongside a rainbow-colored L4D logo and the words "I hate different."

Update 4: And here's the sixth image-- Half-Life 2's Alyx recreating the classic 1984-inspired Macintosh television ad--courtesy of Macworld.

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Great, now we have to play with pretentious, mac faggots.

Mar 04, 2010 2:47am PST

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Great, now we have to play with pretentious, mac faggots. : jjjapan
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- took the words right out of my mouth. : steaming79
- annoying hipsters who love a cube because its got a fucking pink heart on it. : jjjapan
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SCREW YOU VALVE!!

Feast your eyes: the fall of Steam for PC gamers lies before you.

Mar 04, 2010 2:42pm PST

SCREW YOU VALVE!! Feast your eyes: the fall of Steam for PC gamers lies before you. : Damarius101

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You can play valve games with only one mouse button?

Mar 03, 2010 4:46pm PST

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You can play valve games with only one mouse button? : retarded talking dinosaur
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Valve Games/Steam on Mac / OS X would be my first guess.

Mar 03, 2010 12:22pm PST

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Valve Games/Steam on Mac / OS X would be my first guess. : sevogajre
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LINUX please oh please LINUX!

OS X and video games hahahahahahaha

Mar 03, 2010 12:47pm PST

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LINUX please oh please LINUX! OS X and video games hahahahahahaha : UConnBBall
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great news! just ordered a new 27" imac yesterday - and now this newsitem.

Mar 04, 2010 3:55am PST

great news! just ordered a new 27" imac yesterday - and now this newsitem. : fw_rams

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Apple probably threated to sue Steam/Valve for infringing on one of there millions of stupid patents.

Mar 03, 2010 7:53pm PST

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Apple probably threated to sue Steam/Valve for infringing on one of there millions of stupid patents. : socom8271
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- Apple patented stupidity? : TheGeneMachine

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How many games on Steam support the Mac now?

Valve and id and...Anybody else? Popcap or Epic maybe. I wonder if they'll just hide everything else on the Mac client or what.

Mar 03, 2010 2:00pm PST

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How many games on Steam support the Mac now? Valve and id and...Anybody else? Popcap or Epic maybe. I ... : jet-poop
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Valve... â™¥ I don't even own a Mac and am totally excited and have goosebumps. This is pure goodness.

Mar 04, 2010 1:51am PST

Valve... â™¥ I don't even own a Mac and am totally excited and have goosebumps. This is pure goodness... : Lukiopimp

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I hate different.

Mar 04, 2010 1:39am PST

I hate different. : Unkei

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Wow.

Valve thinks Shacknews is important enough for it's own image!

AWESOME.

Mar 03, 2010 12:20pm PST

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Wow. Valve thinks Shacknews is important enough for it's own image! AWESOME. : IndigoAK
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This is kind of exciting, but we have been able to boot into Windows easily now for a few years with the Intel processors.... I've been playing Steam games on my Mac since the day I bought it...

I guess it would be nice to have the support built right into OS X and not have to rely on Windows to play though...

Mar 03, 2010 11:13pm PST

This is kind of exciting, but we have been able to boot into Windows easily now for a few years with the ... : lingo

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It's been a LONG 10 years since I played the alpha of Half Life for Mac. Let's hope this is a new beginning for Mac Gaming. If they have figured out all the tricks they need to pull off the same kind of graphic quality with OpenGL that they have with DirectX maybe we can look forward to Bungie bringing the Halo series out for the Mac as well.

Hey... stop laughing! 5 seconds ago you would have said the same thing about Steam coming to the Mac.

Mar 03, 2010 2:17pm PST

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I can dream but could linux be on the radar down the road?

The bring hurdle I would assume is porting to opengl. (ironic as they ported an id based engine to d3d in the first place for whatever reason). The client itself is probably somewhat trivial.

Mar 03, 2010 6:46pm PST

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- A port to Linux wouldn't be out of the question, at least on a theoretical level. OS X and Linux share *... : FreonTrip

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Hope everyone's ready to pay 1500$ to upgrade their video cards

Mar 03, 2010 7:41pm PST

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Hope everyone's ready to pay 1500$ to upgrade their video cards : Mondo
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- Hell, for most Macs you couldn't update your video card if you wanted to. It will be interesting to see ... : FreonTrip
- I wasn't aware that Valve was forcing everyone to move to Macs with this announcement. : BlackCat9

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Would I have to re-buy all my games for the Mac version, or would they be cool like Blizzard?

Also, what are the chances of more than just Valve games doing this on Steam? I'd love to have my Civ 4 be able to play on my Macbook Pro.

Mar 03, 2010 12:49pm PST

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This will only encourage Apple to bring out newer machines more frequently.

Mar 03, 2010 4:09pm PST

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This will only encourage Apple to bring out newer machines more frequently. : agentboolen
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- Hopefully. Maybe if the Macs with higher end graphics cards and processors sell well... : DANNERx0
- Not at all, nobody influences their timetables. That said, it probably made sense to finally port Source : Serpico74

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So will this put any pressure on Microsoft to stop treating PC gamers like second-class citizens? It seems like they have put less and less effort into PC gaming because they have no real competition in the gaming OS market like they have in the console market.

Mar 03, 2010 1:30pm PST

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- Putting Steam on osx sure does throw a kink in MS's GFWL domination plan : flasher 907
- I think as long as the Xbox is around that will be there #1 priority of growing a customer base. Don't... : dookiebot

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but but .. how can you shoot the orange portal if theres only 1 button on the mouse? this is madness!

Mar 03, 2010 3:09pm PST

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but but .. how can you shoot the orange portal if theres only 1 button on the mouse? this is madness! : Frush81
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Great so the reason they've been taking forever with Episode 3 is to port Steam and their games to an OS I couldn't care less about. This is a pretty big slap in the face to their PC fanbase if you ask me. At least now we know why they've been so tight-lipped as to what's taking so long with Ep 3, because we've already been donning our pitchforks over the lateness of it without this extra bit of news.

Mar 03, 2010 4:55pm PST

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Not gonna lie, the dancing Heavy with sandvich is now my background.

Mar 03, 2010 5:32pm PST

Not gonna lie, the dancing Heavy with sandvich is now my background. : Warbird12345

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Macworld has the last one: http://www.macworld.com/article/146840/2010/03/valve_mac.html
Alyx enacting the Apple 1984 ad.

Mar 03, 2010 1:39pm PST

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All PV vs Mac jokes aside, this is very good news for Computer gaming.

Mar 03, 2010 2:52pm PST

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I am happy for my Mac friends these are delightful!

Mar 03, 2010 3:44pm PST

I am happy for my Mac friends these are delightful! : SpaecKow

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I like Valve :)

Mar 03, 2010 1:11pm PST

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That Alyx image is awesome. Garrysmod ftw.

Mar 03, 2010 2:25pm PST

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That Alyx image is awesome. Garrysmod ftw. : tomservo
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- Yeah, out of six great teasers, that one's definitely my favorite. I wish I could get it in a bigger siz... : SigmaDraconis

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Well, there goes hoping something useful, like hl3/ep3 or portal 2 being unveiled at gdc was part of this .

Mar 03, 2010 1:11pm PST

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- All that Portal craziness doesn't seem like it's related to this. : aqtrans
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Wow, Source on the Mac. That would only be like... 6 years too late! And Steam? Man now I can finally manage both of my Mac games via Steam's interface!

Mar 03, 2010 12:41pm PST

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OH I AM VERY HAPPY!

Mar 03, 2010 2:50pm PST

OH I AM VERY HAPPY! : packav

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It could be that the Mac has suffered from the "chicken/egg" problem way too long and so if a proper catalyst came along to jump start it, maybe it would take off.

People kept waiting for Apple to get serious about it and it never happened, so here comes Valve.

Sort of like how people kept waiting for Microsoft to support PC gaming on Windows more seriously (marketing-wise, not architecture-wise) and it's been sort of half-assed, so here comes Valve.

Mar 03, 2010 2:47pm PST

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Those fuckers are too good at this viral marketing stuff. Noone else stands a chance when the Valve marketing machine kicks in gear.

Mar 03, 2010 1:15pm PST

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- Thats a fact. I feel like buying a mac, just so I can use steam on it. : icedcool

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I wonder if this has anything to do with the steam beta. I know that is for the PC, but I wonder if the new beta is built on a more common framework that would allow it to be more easily ported to the mac, ie they had to release a new PC beta simply because of all the changes they had to make to port it to the mac.

Mar 03, 2010 1:48pm PST

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- oh for sure it does, they switched to webkit : flasher 907

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This gives me a tingle in the pants. I've got a damn nice Mac Pro sitting here waiting for this stuff. I dropped a Geforce GTX285 in it for Final Cut Pro, but damn if this doesn't work. It would be awesome if they worked with game devs to create a wrapper similar to Crossover to play games on the Mac directly. Definitely interested in the announcement.

Mar 03, 2010 2:14pm PST

This gives me a tingle in the pants. I've got a damn nice Mac Pro sitting here waiting for this stuff. ... : Tripps

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Codename Gordon on the iPhone!

Mar 03, 2010 12:32pm PST

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Inb4 Portal for the iPhone or another Valve-related app.

Mar 03, 2010 1:59pm PST

Inb4 Portal for the iPhone or another Valve-related app. : profyse

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So, if they're bringing Source engine games to Mac, that means to me they've created a new OpenGL render option in the engine. I wonder if PC will have the option to use it as well.

Mar 03, 2010 1:39pm PST

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- Software renderer! : rick

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Really... is this what all the hubbub is about, including all the Portal stuff? What a let down. How original... bringing great games to the Mac ... years and years after their original release, lol.

Mar 03, 2010 12:42pm PST

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valve is winning, awesome :)

Mar 03, 2010 1:28pm PST

valve is winning, awesome :) : the_algor

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Thank you, Valve. Thank you so much. I understand that the decision to bring Steam and Source to the Mac is strictly a business decision based on Apple's increasing sales numbers in the last few years, but I choose to think that there's still some love and adventurous spirit that pushed you in that direction as well, which are the traits that have made you the awesome company you are today. I hope that the Mac community embraces and rewards your decision by making Steam on the Mac just as successful as it has been on Windows and acknowledges your influence in getting more publishers to create Mac-native versions of their games. I look forward to the day when I can see a thread for a game of Left4Dead starting on the Shack and I can jump into it without having to reboot into Windows, and on that day, I shall sing praises of you, Valve.

Mar 03, 2010 1:22pm PST

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The little story on the image RPS got is great: http://www.shacknews.com/screenshots.x?gallery=14017&game_id=4049#img150808

Mar 03, 2010 1:03pm PST

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