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Rejoice, Steam is coming to OSX!
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that's weird - i thought valve's april fools joke of 2006 was supposed to be a dig on apple's lack of gaming! 4 years later and look how far we've gone! 
When Apple is not able to see the potential of an MacOS X AppStore - why not an dedicated Game Store powered by steam. I love Steam on Windows. And I would love Steam on MacOS even more, cause then I can get rid of my PC.
Please make the Orange Box (Portal & TeamFortress2) MacOS native!
Please make the Orange Box (Portal & TeamFortress2) MacOS native!
This all sounds very exciting.
But can current vid cards (and other hardware) adequately push these games?
But can current vid cards (and other hardware) adequately push these games?
Awesome. If they do include OS X support I'd hopefully be able to use all those steam games that I own that I haven't used since moving over to the mac.
Maybe not all mac computers, But I currently have a GTX 285 running in my Mac Pro so I don't think I'd have any issue running these games.
Maybe not all mac computers, But I currently have a GTX 285 running in my Mac Pro so I don't think I'd have any issue running these games.
May/may not be related: but wasn't there recent job postings for game devs at Apple?
Wait - Apple's acquiring Steam! Ha!
Wait - Apple's acquiring Steam! Ha!
?? We have pretty good gfx card, if you check Steam survey, better than mediam pc steam users.
Many indie devs pubblish on steam and have mac version or want mac version.... but they don't sell it on steam. Mac version is always on dev website instead pc version on steam. This will cahnge it all and probably brings more gmaes to us.
OMG If this is true my next mac will be a top of the range MBP or iMac (depending which has the better graphics card). Was going to get a PS3/360 but would prefer to play certain games on my mac
If this is true my next mac will be a top of the range MBP or iMac (depending which has the better graphics card). Was going to get a PS3/360 but would prefer to play certain games on my mac 
I'd be content even if it doesn't run many native games! Just knowing when all my friends are online and playing stuff would be good as I'd know when I need to switch to Windows. As an IM platform its very sticky too, even when a lot of people i know are inaccessible on other networks they leave steam running.
Really happy if this happens!
As an IM platform its very sticky too, even when a lot of people i know are inaccessible on other networks they leave steam running.Really happy if this happens!
Maybe this is like when they decided to can the mac version of Half-life after all the hardwork put into the port.
"here's steam... oh just kidding.."
Fool me once...
"here's steam... oh just kidding.."
Fool me once...
Another thing that is noteworthy I dunno if anyone has mentioned it yet but the new beta uses Webkit for the built in browser as opposed to a simple IE shell.
This could indicate they have desires to go cross platform when combined with all the other evidence as obviously dropping the IE shell now would make life easier in the future by not having to support multiple browser engines on different platforms.
This could indicate they have desires to go cross platform when combined with all the other evidence as obviously dropping the IE shell now would make life easier in the future by not having to support multiple browser engines on different platforms.
Radical meant gfx card decent today, not when they came out. Sure all the steam point-and-click adventures will run great on Macs.Hey, me got a GTX 285
Great news!
We can obviously forget about seeing entire steam catalogue on Mac...
However, think about OpenCL and future and things will become more obvious.
Add to this Blizzard and SC2, Diablo 3 also EA with their decent commitment to Mac gaming and possible conversion of Source for Linux / OSX and it all rather looks pretty...
I think this is marking beginning of one rather interesting era
We can obviously forget about seeing entire steam catalogue on Mac...
However, think about OpenCL and future and things will become more obvious.
Add to this Blizzard and SC2, Diablo 3 also EA with their decent commitment to Mac gaming and possible conversion of Source for Linux / OSX and it all rather looks pretty...
I think this is marking beginning of one rather interesting era
I already run many many Steam games on my MacBook Pro on Crossover Games, without Windows, and I can tell you that it runs VERY impressively, no bugs, extremely smoothly. I was very surprised! I can run every game on the highest settings and everything works as you would expect it to work on Windows. It's so amazing that you just have to try it if you're into gaming. Forget BootCamp and Windows altogether!
I'd be happy if Valve ported Steam and all their games to the Mac, as I think it won't need so much work if Crossover Games can handle it so well. Macs are perfect machines for gaming, hardware-wise, if game companies make the software compatible, Macs could be premium gaming machines...
I'd be happy if Valve ported Steam and all their games to the Mac, as I think it won't need so much work if Crossover Games can handle it so well. Macs are perfect machines for gaming, hardware-wise, if game companies make the software compatible, Macs could be premium gaming machines...
Yes i agree, i do the same. I also add the most game even Counter-Strike source run smooth even on Geforce 9400M, so most of mac line today will run 90% of games on Steam.
Check Bioschock or example, it runs very good on most hardware.
OpenCL can be a a good thing too for valve.
Not for just for games
Why should this just be for games? There is no reason why there shouldn't be a wider variety of programs, steam is a delivery platform.
Why should this just be for games? There is no reason why there shouldn't be a wider variety of programs, steam is a delivery platform.
Oh my God I hope this is true.
Perhaps just in the beginning it will be limited to games. From there, once the foundation is set, they can expand.
Perhaps just in the beginning it will be limited to games. From there, once the foundation is set, they can expand.
