Valve coming to Mac Platform?

[vinylrake]

According to rumors and images teased by Valve, Steam and several of Valve's games (Half-Life, Portal, Team Fortress 2 AND Left 4 Dead) will be available on the Mac.

http://gizmodo.com/5484987/valves-mac-t ... e-my-pants

[Jon God]

I've been keeping an eye on this. Here's hoping for another way companies can release new/old games on the mac platform.

[William Wallet]

With Intel Macs being as handy as they are with Windows installations (can't believe it almost took me a year to get around to doing mine), I'm not even sure why people would bother porting anymore.
True enough there's a load of people around with non-Intel Macs still, but as time goes on ...

[Graydon]

I've had Windows XP installed on my Mac for nearly if not 2 years now, but I've only used it a handful of times. To be honest, I just really don't like the OS that much. I'd much rather be able to use more apps in my native OS.

[Zeph]

this is why steam for mac would rock! No more booting in windows xp!

[William Wallet]

this is why steam for mac would rock! No more booting in windows xp!

True enough, although it's a short enough process (my XP installation is pretty bare bones so it takes bugger all time to start up!) it would be neat to not have to bother rebooting.

[oogaBooga]

"research on our end, however, is what makes our new HD units that were modelled by other people so fucking sexy.".

Grow up.

[Khadrelt]

To those of you who've played Half-Life, would it be worth getting? I've heard a lot, but never seen in it action.

[Eddaweaver]

Yes. Half Life was fully ported to OSX nearly a decade ago but never released.

http://forums.appleinsider.com/archive/ ... 18299.html

[Pyro]

I enjoyed Half-Life 2. I only played the first one after HL2 came out. I figured, I best play the first before I try it. Then the expansions Episode One and Two. I wonder when the third will get made. Also, there are some fans making a Half-Life game with the Half-Life 2 engine, looks good. I can't wait to play that once it gets done.

[oogaBooga]

The first was really, really good, although I wasn't able to finish it completely. The second was phenomenal, and the expansions are well worth it.

[Khadrelt]

Cool. I might try it out, then.

[haravikk]

I enjoyed Half-Life 2. I only played the first one after HL2 came out. I figured, I best play the first before I try it.

It seems fun enough, but on the XBox 360 version of Half Life 2 you can't seem to change the field of vision, which is a problem as it gives me horrible motion sickness, which I've never gotten from anything else =S