Steam Mac Details Emerge

By Chris Faylor, May 11, 2010 7:24am PDT With Valve's digital distribution platform Steam slated to launch on the Mac platform tomorrow--Wednesday, May 12--the company today issued a few more details.

New "collections of Mac titles" will be available on Wednesdays, Valve explained today, with "each designed to highlight specific functionalitites of Steam on the Mac."

Valve's Portal and Runic's Torchlight

Tomorrow's launch lineup is meant to demonstrate "'Steam Play,' which allows customers to purchase a game once and play it on all Steam supported platforms," with games including Valve's puzzle-shooter Portal and Runic's action-RPG Torchlight.

"Steam for the Mac solves so many problems for us as a developer," noted Max Scahefer of Runic. "We look forward to our future games coming out on the Mac as well."

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Linux client please.

May 11, 2010 7:35am PDT

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Linux client please. : danws6
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well, where in the hell is it?

May 12, 2010 1:23am PDT

well, where in the hell is it? : mankeroo

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Steam becoming cross platform (pc, mac, linux) is great news all around for PC gamers. I don't own a mac, but expanding the pc gaming audience to these operating systems is going to help fight the "consolization" of many games in the area that matters most - user interfaces within games and feature sets.

May 11, 2010 9:42am PDT

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Steam becoming cross platform (pc, mac, linux) is great news all around for PC gamers. I don't own a mac,... : ajvitaly
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- Absolutely. The operating system isn't the important thing, the physical mouse and keyboard interface is.... : Serpico74

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This is a historic event in gaming. This is a 'game-changer'. /snicker

May 11, 2010 10:37am PDT

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This is a historic event in gaming. This is a 'game-changer'. /snicker : Qwiggalo
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- I totally think it is. : Super Sparker

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Great! I've bought Torchlight a while ago and now I can play it on Mac - awesome!

May 11, 2010 2:06pm PDT

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Great! I've bought Torchlight a while ago and now I can play it on Mac - awesome! : l0s7man
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- I was gonna say the same thing! Super psyched! : mankeroo

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Now I am sad I didn't pick up Torchlight on Steam when it was super cheap. I wanted to wait until it was out on OS X because that was the version I wanted. Now that Steam is coming to OS X it would have worked out anyway! Doh, oh well, $20 is a great deal for the game anyway.

May 11, 2010 5:54pm PDT

Now I am sad I didn't pick up Torchlight on Steam when it was super cheap. I wanted to wait until it was ... : ovrlrd

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I want to be excited.... I really do. But I recently played the slow and ugly crapfest that was Starcraft 2 OSX Beta. If Blizzard, who has a history of great support for the platform, can't do it...well, we'll see what Valve comes up with.

May 11, 2010 8:46am PDT

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I want to be excited.... I really do. But I recently played the slow and ugly crapfest that was Starcraf... : KungFuKenobi
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- It's a beta, not a demo. : deveus1
- To be fair to Blizzard - have you played WoW on a OSX because it runs flawlessly. SC2 has far higher s... : spaceyme

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I really hope to see Civ up there soon.

May 11, 2010 7:35am PDT

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I really hope to see Civ up there soon. : Fenring42
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  this and Torchlight are my biggest wishlist items for a Mac steam client. : ttyRazor
  - well, you're getting torchlight tomorrow :) : Chris Faylor
- I kind of jumped in the Civ3 deal hoping for this. My macbook's not beefy enough for IV, but that'd be bi... : Tawler

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Are the system requirements similar to the PC ones? (at least graphics card and cpu).

May 11, 2010 10:43am PDT

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Are the system requirements similar to the PC ones? (at least graphics card and cpu). : ruckerz
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- My mac is from late 2006. : ruckerz

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Do we have a complete list of games that will be available tomorrow for the Mac? A few friends (one on Mac) were expecting to play L4D tomorrow with this (barring Valve Time) but all the previews hint that only a couple source games (Portal, TF2) will be at launch, but I've not seen confirmation either way otherwise.

May 11, 2010 8:06am PDT

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Do we have a complete list of games that will be available tomorrow for the Mac? A few friends (one on M... : Masem
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I am looking forward to this. It means that during lunch at work I won't have to reboot into bootcamp to play a game every now and then.

May 11, 2010 7:30am PDT

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I am looking forward to this. It means that during lunch at work I won't have to reboot into bootcamp to... : crimrOw
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- hello fellow Mac at work buddy : ErneX
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  You get to play games at work? : WilliamDecker
  - On his lunch break, sure. : gooblerampling
- Same here. I wasn't expecting cross platform support so NOW I am excited! : Thund3rball

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I'll be picking up Torchlight!

May 11, 2010 9:30am PDT

I'll be picking up Torchlight! : impasse

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So what about Quake and Doom? Will I automagically have the OSX ports if I run them from Steam on a Mac? I guess not.

May 11, 2010 7:51am PDT

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So what about Quake and Doom? Will I automagically have the OSX ports if I run them from Steam on a Mac? ... : Lukiopimp
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  Download a source port that supports OSX and point it at your data files. This is what you should be doin... : jet-poop
  - Definitely this. : TheDaFox

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