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Valve's Steam Coming to Mac on May 12

by Chris Faylor, Apr 29, 2010 4:15pm PDT

The Mac OS version of Valve's digital distribution platform Steam will be released on May 12, the company confirmed today.

No other details on the launch were given--the announcement was a brief two sentences--though it will presumably debut alongside the native Mac versions of Left 4 Dead, Left 4 Dead 2, Team Fortress 2, Counter-Strike, Portal and the Half-Life series originally slated to launch with the Mac client in April 2010.

Those that already own the above games via Steam PC will be able to download them free on Steam Mac. Future Valve games, like Portal 2, are slated to hit both PC and Mac simultaneously and will include both PC and Mac editions with a purchase of either.

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I wonder if they'll patch OpenGL support into the Windows clients too.

Apr 29, 2010 5:50pm PDT

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I wonder if they'll patch OpenGL support into the Windows clients too. : Tech T
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Excellent news. Now if Valve would release Steam for Linux I could dump Windows.

Apr 29, 2010 5:02pm PDT

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Excellent news. Now if Valve would release Steam for Linux I could dump Windows. : Evil Furby
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  My theory is that this is what they started out doing but they decided to do a Mac port as well, then the... : Schnapple
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    Ther are actually hints in the files that point to a linux release, I think shacknews reported that, or i... : Johnnsen
    - http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=steam_linux_script&num=1 : flasher 907
    - all that shit was for dedicated servers : MamiyaOtaru
- UBUNTU RELEASE PLS : RyDogg1
- Yeah, me too : mollikka

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Ep. 3 plz

Apr 29, 2010 8:29pm PDT

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Ep. 3 plz : Inarion
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  Amen. I was hoping that the Portal 2 announcement would involve Episode Three. : locoburger
  - *Still secretly hoping for an EP3 announcement at E3* : carbontree

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I'm curious whether Apple itself will promote steam as a mac feature. I suspect they want to start their own gaming environment type thing though, judging by the achievements and such coming with the new iphone OS, which could perhaps eventually compete with steam on macs.

Apr 29, 2010 5:00pm PDT

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I'm curious whether Apple itself will promote steam as a mac feature. I suspect they want to start their ... : GenBanks
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- Great. Yet another platform full of exclusives. : JPMcWhiskers
- There'd be no contest. : packav
- They're serving different markets, so they could probably coexist. : rudds

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I wonder if Steam on Mac means more devs will port their games to OS X. I guess the biggest hurdle is that almost everyone is using DirectX? Otherwise it would be fairly easy to port it? Also, what graphics API is the PS3 using? Would it be easier to port games that have also been released on the PS3, since the PS3 runs Linux? Would be great to have more than just Valve games on Steam for Mac.

Apr 29, 2010 5:32pm PDT

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I wonder if Steam on Mac means more devs will port their games to OS X. I guess the biggest hurdle is tha... : hamliga
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- The PS3 uses something similar to OpenGL but it is not used exclusively because code can be written direc... : Grayman222
- Anyone remember back in the day when all games were either Glide or OpenGL and no one used DirectX? For ... : crimrOw

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Do macs have enough hardware to run these games?

When I walked past the apple store and had a quick look all the pcs seemed to have mid range cpus but very weak/budget graphic cards?

Apr 30, 2010 6:35am PDT

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Do macs have enough hardware to run these games? When I walked past the apple store and had a quick lo... : simonfrance
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- I'm sure you'll have to dial it down a bit on some machines (like my Mac Mini, for example) but yeah they... : Schnapple
- Mac hardware does tend to lag behind PC hardware because of how Apple does product launches. Most produc... : crimrOw

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Thanks for the screenshot of Steam on a PC. That helps.

Apr 29, 2010 4:43pm PDT

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Thanks for the screenshot of Steam on a PC. That helps. : askedrelic
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  I suspect the only significant difference in the interface will be the implacable Mac OS menu bar pasted ... : SeraphielX
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    and the lack of games, haha : FIGHTheSYSTM
    - zing! : snot3353
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  For a screenshot of the mac just replace all those games with Myst and Tetris : et72
  - Don't forget Photoshop. : peetabix01

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I'm just so ready to play L4D2! My gaming PC died months ago!

Apr 30, 2010 5:24am PDT

I'm just so ready to play L4D2! My gaming PC died months ago! : packav

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AWESOME. what i want to know is can i just copy over my steamapps folder so i dont have to download them all again (copy over and let it download the differences that is)

Apr 29, 2010 4:34pm PDT

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AWESOME. what i want to know is can i just copy over my steamapps folder so i dont have to download them ... : CoRDS
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  Interesting idea. In theory all the art assets, models, textures, sounds, etc, should be the same, wit... : SeraphielX
  - indeed. : CoRDS
- Get a decent ISP, where steam traffic is free. : abrasion

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May 12 Valve Time, folks.

Apr 29, 2010 5:16pm PDT

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May 12 Valve Time, folks. : TastyWheat
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- Beat me to it. So May 12th in Valve time is... September 4th, 2010? You heard it here first! : snot3353

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Way to go Apple, even Valve's Steam is gonna beat you to the Canadian iPad release. >_>

Apr 29, 2010 6:43pm PDT

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Way to go Apple, even Valve's Steam is gonna beat you to the Canadian iPad release. >_> : shurcool
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- games on a mac, before DNF. who would have thought : CoRDS

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Glad to finally have a date so that I'm not anxiously checking my RSS feeds and email for beta invites or announcements. I really look forward to being able to jump into a Left4Dead 2 game within seconds in a few weeks.

Apr 29, 2010 4:57pm PDT

Glad to finally have a date so that I'm not anxiously checking my RSS feeds and email for beta invites or... : BlackCat9

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so if civ4 is already out for mac (mac version by aspyr)...do you think they'll offer that as a free download for owning the pc version?

i doubt it :(

Apr 29, 2010 4:40pm PDT

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so if civ4 is already out for mac (mac version by aspyr)...do you think they'll offer that as a free down... : Wiley Animagus
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- Probably not. Those contracts with Aspyr tend to make it so that Aspyr buys the rights to develop a Mac v... : BlackCat9

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ugh i am so impatient!!!!!!!!!!!! what a stupid asshole i am but i want it now!!!

Apr 29, 2010 4:37pm PDT

ugh i am so impatient!!!!!!!!!!!! what a stupid asshole i am but i want it now!!! : Mr.SEX

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Already have my mac friend cued up to get L4D1/2 to join our PC threesome in some zombie killing fun.

Apr 29, 2010 4:36pm PDT

Already have my mac friend cued up to get L4D1/2 to join our PC threesome in some zombie killing fun. : Masem

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Eff yeah, finally a date!

Runic is working on a mac version of Torchlight, then there is Plants Vs. Zombies. Looking forward to it, even though I mainly use my gaming desktop windows machine. Still, its nice having Valve games on my macbook without the need of bootcamp.

And yes, right click has been possible for years. :)

Apr 29, 2010 4:31pm PDT

Eff yeah, finally a date! Runic is working on a mac version of Torchlight, then there is Plants Vs. Zo... : Johnnsen

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Well, doesn't that just figger.

Apr 29, 2010 4:21pm PDT

Well, doesn't that just figger. : didgin

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