Size: 3.2 MB. More than 3000 downloads. Category: Game download. The biggest videogames shop in pur Mac; Do not miss any of your favorite games. The Steam platform, which is a digital sales hub and community for PC games, is coming to Mac in April. This comes along with news that Portal 2 will be the first Valve product to release simultaneously on Mac and PC. Also, Valve's director of Steam development, John Cook, is quoted in the release with some details about how some of this will work.
Steam, the popular gaming network, is finally here for Mac. I am a little behind on posting this because it came out on May 12th, but better late than never. For all you Mac users out there we finally have a proper game network to purchase and download popular games that were previously only for Windows. There are currently 64 games for Mac in the Mac side of the Steam store. You can purchase and download these games right in the steam window.
Most of the games available have already been available for Mac. It's nice to see them in one place though and many of them I have played and have enjoyed, like World of Goo and Mechinarium. They offer games in packs as well such as the indie game pack and the telltale Steam pack, which features games like Tales of Monkey Island.
The only big title that has been ported to Mac so far is Portal, which you can get for free until May 24th. There are other big titles that are going to make there way to make including Left 4 Dead and Team Fortress. For more info on Steam titles to come to Mac read my other post about it on my other post about. It will be interesting to see if Steam gains a lot of traction in the Mac community. I suspect they will and Steam will not regret making their popular game Mac compatible.
Will a bog-standard Macbook be able to run many of the games though? Monkey Island, Sam & Max etc. I had it running on my MacBook late 2006 1.8GHz C2D GMA950. Of Course you get a really low framerate it´s playable ok, nothing decent of course.
Also the X3100 is not supported but it runs. With the M9400 you should have some decent performance.
But with any MacBook you will need at leat 2GB of RAM. Besides that: YES!!!!!! I found the Mac steam Client with the free Portal offer, which I already owned because of Orange Box. And when I installed it my earlier Porta, Braid, Osmos and Torchlight where already waiting for me. And run like charme. Will a bog-standard Macbook be able to run many of the games though? Monkey Island, Sam & Max etc.
I had it running on my MacBook late 2006 1.8GHz C2D GMA950. Of Course you get a really low framerate it´s playable ok, nothing decent of course. Also the X3100 is not supported but it runs. With the M9400 you should have some decent performance. But with any MacBook you will need at leat 2GB of RAM. Besides that: YES!!!!!!
I found the Mac steam Client with the free Portal offer, which I already owned because of Orange Box. And when I installed it my earlier Porta, Braid, Osmos and Torchlight where already waiting for me. And run like charme. Awesome, cheers! So, is TF2 eventually going to be Mac-compatible? And if so, are we PC gamers actually going to be playing TF2 with Mac owners? This should be interesting.
Oh dear lord, it would be sheep among the wolves! Those poor Mac owners, never having played a decent game in their lives not made by Blizzard.it will be slaughter! That is affirmative partners. It has been confirmed that the Mac version of TF2 will be compatible with the Windows version and the servers will be the same. Everyone playing TF2 on Windows or Mac OS will be playing together. It's even been covered by the Escapist some time ago, can't be bothered to find the link though.
Will a bog-standard Macbook be able to run many of the games though? Monkey Island, Sam & Max etc. Depends when your Macbook is from.
I'm using a Macbook (Late 2009) and this runs source games on medium settings with a decent framerate, that was through bootcamp though, and I'm still waiting for Portal to download because of the epic server loads. So, is TF2 eventually going to be Mac-compatible? And if so, are we PC gamers actually going to be playing TF2 with Mac owners?
This should be interesting. Yeah all the source engine games are going to be mac-compatible (I think). They're releasing them one week at a time, TF2 definitely is though because that was in beta last week, and I think still could be, so you may well have already been playing with some Mac TF2 players.