Steam for Mac (unofficially) released

It's very likely that in just a few hours STEAM for Mac will be officially released with the corresponding games, until then you can grab the download here and play Portal! :P, although OpenGL doesn't run as fast on Mac/Linux as DirectX does on Windows, so don't expect better or the same performance as on Windows:

http://store.steampowered.com/public/client/steam.dmg

Weird, some games are missing, like Team Fortress 2 :S

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Yeah, TF isnt being released for a while, Dunno why..

But yeah, Ima stick to windoze tbh :)

Engadget summarizes this nicely:

"All but identical to the pc version... except you can't buy anything."

I still downloaded it, nontheless. Quite useless to me until TF2 comes out.

Portal is free until the 24th of May.

It's official now, I had it before it was official and the store wouldn't work :( Now it does though xD

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Portal is free until the 24th of May.

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Never would've noticed, cheers Niall!

Love the new UI but for some reason my downloads are even slower and news/updates pages don't load correctly.

Why's Portal free?

I dual boot Windows on my MacBook anyway and I'd rather boot into Windows to game, but this is good news for the Mac only users!

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Originally Posted by [Chris]

Yeah, TF isnt being released for a while, Dunno why..

But yeah, Ima stick to windoze tbh :)

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It would of still showed on that list? I'm sure that is "ALL" games no matter what OS they run on. (correct me if I'm wrong)

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Originally Posted by MattGarner

It would of still showed on that list? I'm sure that is "ALL" games no matter what OS they run on. (correct me if I'm wrong)

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Yeah I bought TF2 a while back and it's not on the list :|

Fantastic news. Sure there aren't as many games as on PC but the platform is now wide open to all developers to take advantage of so I am looking forward to the future possibilities. It is however nice to be able to chat to people without needing a reboot. :)

Does anyone have any recommendations for good games, other than TF2 by Steam then?

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Originally Posted by HotelUser

Does anyone have any recommendations for good games, other than TF2 by Steam then?

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TF2, Portal (+ 2 when it's out), CSS, HL2: DM, HL2, HL2 Ep1 (+ Ep 2, Ep 3 when it's out), Audiosurf, Left4Dead, Shattered Horizon