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This comes along with news that Portal 2 will be the first Valve product to release simultaneously on Mac and PC. Also, Valve's director of Steam development, John Cook, is quoted in the release with some details about how some of this will work.
If I may get "sensational" for moment, note that Valve considers the Mac to be "tier-1" but not the PlayStation 3. Burn?"We are treating the Mac as a tier-1 platform so all of our future games will release simultaneously on Windows, Mac, and the Xbox 360. Updates for the Mac will be available simultaneously with the Windows updates. Furthermore, Mac and Windows players will be part of the same multiplayer universe, sharing servers, lobbies, and so forth. We fully support a heterogeneous mix of servers and clients. The first Mac Steam client will be the new generation currently in beta testing on Windows.”
Furthermore, Valve is rolling out something called Steam Play, which is a backend feature that will allow players to play games on Windows or Mac for one purchase price. Again, Portal 2 will support this, along with Steam Cloud, so your saved games will transfer between platforms.
So unified multiplayer servers, simultaneous releases, and the ability to play on Mac after buying a Windows version of the game. Yeah, that sounds about right. A little too right, even. I'm not sure how this will do, since it seems like the whole "Mac gaming" thing comes and goes every few years without making any waves, but this all sounds kind of awesome, provided it has enough developer support to offer the right variety of games.
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Gearbox Software To Finish Duke Nukem Forever
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Free Borderlands Patch Will Bump Level Cap To 69 This October
Balance tweaks are expected as well. |
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Telltale Games Reveals A Mashup Poker Title For Fall Release
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Oddworld: Stranger's Wrath Remake Coming to PSN In 2011
Just Add Water's first Oddworld-based game is actually a remake. |
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Legendary Halo: Reach Bundle To Include Campaign Commentary
From beginning to end, owners of the 150-dollar bundle can rock out with some devs in their ears. |
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Ed Harris, Gary Oldman Join Call of Duty: Black Ops Cast
Stand down, captain. Failure is not an option! |
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Apple's Game Center Is Now Available
And now I have 480 achievement points in a bad port of Ms. Pac-Man. |
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Gearbox Software To Finish Duke Nukem Forever
The Texas-based developer announces its involvement with 3D Realms long-awaited project. |
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I Played Duke Nukem Forever--Was It All A Dream?
I can't tell if anything is real anymore, but in case I'm actually writing this story right now and am not trapped in some sort of dream prison, Duke Nukem Forever actually exists. And I played it. |
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Oddworld: Stranger's Wrath Remake Coming to PSN In 2011
Just Add Water's first Oddworld-based game is actually a remake. |
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Telltale Games Reveals A Mashup Poker Title For Fall Release
Poker Night at the Inventory looks to be a unique poker game and not just because a certain bunny will be at the table. |
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Legendary Halo: Reach Bundle To Include Campaign Commentary
From beginning to end, owners of the 150-dollar bundle can rock out with some devs in their ears. |
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Free Borderlands Patch Will Bump Level Cap To 69 This October
Balance tweaks are expected as well. |
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Ed Harris, Gary Oldman Join Call of Duty: Black Ops Cast
Stand down, captain. Failure is not an option! |
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Apple's Game Center Is Now Available
And now I have 480 achievement points in a bad port of Ms. Pac-Man. |
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^^
The Kotaku story mentions Portal, L4D2, Team Fortress 2 (!!!), and all Half-Life games will be included.
this.
I hope I'm reading the bit about Steam Play correctly, and I can my copy of the Orange Box I bought a few years to play Half Life and TF2 on my Macbook without buying them again.
Back during the Portal ARG some of the GLaDOS files that some people got from the BBS were marked with "not 100% DOS compatible". At the time the theory that this was Valve hinting at a Mac version of Steam was pretty popular but I was somewhat skeptical, I guess GLaDOS really was trying to tell us Valve were going to bringing something to Apple's platform.
Thanks though.