Archives for March, 2010

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As of today comments submitted by people who have already had at least one approved should appear more or less instantly on the site. Note that this requires that you use the same name and email address each time you submit a comment.

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Topic

Mobile Me Alternatives

When

Friday, March 12th 2010, 7:30pm – 10:00pm

Who

Bill Dickhardt & Steve Jordan

Where

Room M129, Building M, ACCC Mays Landing Campus

Bill and Steve will team up to demonstrate alternative strategies and software to do what Apple offers with their $99 annual Mobile Me membership. Hopefully they’ll show us how to save us most, if not all of that $99.

Presentation topics may change so be sure to verify on the day of the meeting. Got questions you’d like to have answered? Feel free to post them as comments before the meeting so the presenters have a chance to prepare.

Valve, makers of wildly popular games as Half Life, Team Fortress, Portal and Left 4 Dead, seems to be poised to announce the availability of at least these titles on the Mac via their Steam service. At least it’s hard to come to any other conclusion given the broad hints they’ve been dropping at various Mac and gaming web sites:

• MacRumors: Valve Leaks Teaser Images for Announcement of Steam (and Games) for Mac
• MacNN: Valve confirms intent to produce Mac games
• EUROGAMER: Valve teases forthcoming announcement
• shacknews: Valve Teases Announcement with Mystery Images; Steam Coming to Mac?
• Macworld: Valve may soon raise the crowbar for Mac gaming
• Rock Paper Shotgun: Valve’s Big Fat Hint: Steam For Macs?

This is great news for both Mac gamers and game developers as Steam provides a standard platform for secure distribution of software without physical media.

[2010-March-08 Update]

It’s official, Valve’s Steam game engine powered games will be coming to the Mac in April!

• Valve to Deliver Steam & Source on the Mac

And if you buy a game on one platform, Mac or PC, you can play it on the other for FREE.