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Aperture Science Overjoyed by Portal Response

Posted 05/13/2010 at 1:38pm | by Roberto Baldwin

Yesterday Steam was released for Mac and Valve decided it would be great to give everyone Portal for free.

Best idea ever? Aperture Science thinks so and they've created a motivational video to keep recruits gamers focused on the task at hand and not the growing number of casualties.

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Steam for Mac is Now Officially Available to Download

Posted 05/12/2010 at 12:06pm | by Florence Ion

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It's the moment you've all been waiting for, Apple faithful. Valve's digital distribution client, Steam, is now officially live for the Mac OS X operating system. If you'd rather skip the story and get to downloading the application, click to get the link after the jump.

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Steam for Mac: How to Navigate Portal

Posted 05/12/2010 at 10:06am | by Fion

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Unlike anything we’ve ever played, Portal’s brilliant, mind-bending platforming is the pinnacle of puzzle games. Some may scoff at its brevity (it’s only three or four hours long) but it’s so clever and cool that you’ll want to experience it again, if only to see what layers of depth you missed. There are enough spoilery distractions along the way that you probably won’t catch ‘em all. Keep these tips in mind while, ahem, doing what you do in Portal.

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Steam for Mac--A Beginners Guide to Getting Shot

Posted 05/11/2010 at 4:07pm | by Florence Ion

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Welcome to Steam, the digital distribution client that's been in the PC gaming sphere for around seven years now. Steam allows you to purchase Valve games with a PayPal account or a credit card. Once the game is downloaded, the game title stays forever in your name and tied to your user account, so you can play it on virtually any system that has the Steam client installed--including that PC you have locked in the basement. Additionally, the client makes it so you never have to pay for that game again, even if you lose all of the data off of your hard drives and misplace the game's original discs.

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Steam for Mac Officially Rolling Out May 12

Posted 05/11/2010 at 9:30am | by Florence Ion

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Valve has officially announced that Steam will launch for the Mac OS X operating system tomorrow, May 12th. The company will also subsequently release additional collections of Mac titles that are individually designed to highlight specific functionalities of Steam on the Mac.

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Steam Coming to a Mac Near You on May 12

Posted 04/29/2010 at 4:27pm | by Florence Ion

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Today, Valve officially announced that the public release of Steam for Mac OS X will arrive on May 12 of this year. That's merely a week and a half away!

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Podcast #131: iPad Pre-Orders and Steam on the Mac

Posted 03/09/2010 at 4:44pm | by Roberto Baldwin

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Apple announced the on-sale date for the iPad and when you can pre-order the device. The staff discuss the plethora of delivery options and Ray reveals his own launch day dilemma.

Valve announced Steam for the Mac is coming and we get ready to drop our consoles in favor of shooting each other on our Macs.

Plus, we answer your hard-hitting Twitter and Facebook questions! Okay, they weren't that hard-hitting.

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Exclusive: Steam's Project Manager Answers Our Burning Steam-on-Mac Questions

Posted 03/08/2010 at 11:40am | by Roberto Baldwin

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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.

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The Mac Users Guide to Cool Things You Can Do With Steam

Posted 03/08/2010 at 11:40am | by Florence Ion

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This is the moment we've all been waiting for: Steam is finally coming to the Mac, and bringing the entire library of Valve games with it. This popular application was once King of the Games on Windows, but now it has expanded its reign to include Mac OS X, too.

The availability of Steam for Mac gamers means that we'll finally be able to kick the butts of our PC brethern, without investing in a pricey gaming console, or a Windows PC. Additionally, game publishers will be able to distribute all of the latest game titles via digital downloads, and we'll be able to play all the various Valve titles across a multitude of different computers, regardless of operating system. We don't doubt that the Mac versus PC debate won't continue on for generations to come, but at least there's finally some common ground.

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Valve Announces Steam for the Mac

Posted 03/08/2010 at 11:39am | by Roberto Baldwin

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Today's announcement is probably the biggest Mac gaming news since the release of Marathon.

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