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