

Valve's announcement that their Steam service would soon be available to
Mac users is huge news to the Mac gaming community. While the iPhone
and iPod touch have taken off as gaming platform, the Mac has languished
in a sort of gaming limbo. Sure we get games, but they're usually a few
months--or even years--behind the Windows version and some games are
announced and never materialize. With today's announcement, The Mac has
taken another step to becoming a real gaming gaming platform.
We
had a chance to talk Steam's Project Manager, John Cook about their
move to the Mac platform, the future of Steam and Valve on the Mac,
third-party developers and native- versus Cider-ported games on the
Mac.