Steam, an online distribution and management software system designed by Valve, which allows users to buy and download games to their PC’s has recently announced that it is bringing its Steam service, and Source gaming engine to Mac’s in April this year, Source is the gaming engine behind many of Valves own game titles, and many of their games will be compatible for Mac on release date. With the Half-Life series, Team Fortress 2, Counter-Strike, Portal and Left 4 Dead 2 all set to come to mac some time in April.
But it seems that it wont be just Valve’s own titles making the shift to Mac gaming, with the potential for other publishers who use Steam to distribute their products being very excited about the coming support for Mac’s.
For years, the lack of gaming on Mac’s has always been an easy Jab for PC fanatics against Mac’s. But Valve’s coming support could see that change. Although the majority of users have moved away from PC gaming and into console gaming, with XBOX 360 and the PS3.
Valve has stated that from now on, all of their future games will be released simultaneously on Windows, Mac and the Xbox 360, with the first new title to be released for Mac to be Portal 2… So apparently the Cake isn’t a Lie…