Steam Mac Details Emerge

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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."

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."

Chris Faylor was previously a games journalist creating content at Shacknews.

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    May 11, 2010 7:30 AM

    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.

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