Steamy hot rumours from valve

[Jamesy]

Valve, the masters of whipping the community into a frenzy have been distributing various images to tech news outlets which seem to follow a certain theme:

http://images.macrumors.com/article/2010/03/03/145949-valve_teaser_500.jpg

http://images.macrumors.com/article/2010/03/03/150310-valvemac-lg.jpg

http://images.macrumors.com/article/2010/03/03/154425-valve_3_500.jpg

http://images.macrumors.com/article/2010/03/03/154550-valve_4.jpg

http://images.macrumors.com/article/2010/03/03/154953-valve_5_500.jpg

http://images.macrumors.com/article/2010/03/03/164023-valve_6_500.jpg

One can only speculate but this coupled with the finding of these images in the new Steam Client Beta:

http://images.totalgamingnetwork.com/images/steamosx.jpg

Looks set to prove for some interesting gaming news heading for the apple world (h). Personally I am letting a bit of geek wee out at the possibility of not having to switch OSs on my macbook to talk to people on steam :D

Full story here: http://www.macrumors.com/2010/03/03/valve-teases-upcoming-half-life-release-for-mac/

(Note, posted here under the advice of a mr M. Garner so if it's wrong its not my fault :P)

[Recursion]

We all know Valve like to troll, STEAM may well come to Mac but it doesn't mean any games will!

[Jamesy]

We all know Valve like to troll, STEAM may well come to Mac but it doesn't mean any games will!

Indeed not, but opening up the platform should be a step in the right direction :)

[Stephen!]

They will almost certainly port their source engine games over.

[Recursion]

Gotta say, it would be nice to claim back some of my HDD space on my MacBook for OS X, over half is for Windows 7 and my STEAM games.

I hope if they do port them, they'll do it properly under some kind of native code

[Tomm]

Would be a significant amount of work thought considering it currently uses DirectX and the low market share of Mac based computers combined with the generally poor graphics cards unless you pay for the very high end spec Macs.


They will almost certainly port their source engine games over.

[Jamesy]

Gotta say, it would be nice to claim back some of my HDD space on my MacBook for OS X, over half is for Windows 7 and my STEAM games.

I hope if they do port them, they'll do it properly under some kind of native code

I am not sure they will. They may release it under whatever it is that they wrap around it to make it work but I think this is to get a wider spread of indie games out there - after all World of Goo is sold on steam on PC but runs on Mac natively as well.

I'm interested in how the system will work though for Pc/ Mac users. If you own a windows game that is also available on Mac do you get the Mac option free or do you need to buy the game again? :P

[Stephen!]

Well technically it's a different platform so I guess you'd need to buy it again. Just like owning a game on the PS3 but want it on 360.

[Pyroka]

They could do it, but they'd have problems with the systems as they're not amazing for games.