- Valve Software
- WHAT COULD IT MEAN?!?
We Mac gamers are a hearty few. Like Oregon’s original settlers, we survive on gorgeous user interface, intuitive program design and millions of dead beavers …
Wait, that didn’t make any sense. Let me start over. *cue record scratch*
Hey there hipsters!
I see you propped up behind that MacBook, smugly sipping your coffee, sneering at PC owners, but secretly wishing you could use the fancy laptop your parents bought you to shoot something. Valve Software (the people behind Half-Life, Left 4 Dead, Portal and the industry-leading Steam downloadable gaming service) apparently took a look around their Seattle-area HQ and noticed that maybe us Mac owners aren’t such a freaky outlier anymore. Maybe, just maybe, there’s enough of us to comprise an “audience” for their games.
Thus, we get images like the above. Feel free to speculate wildly at what this might mean for the future of Steam and Valve’s classic games. Thinking about it too much makes my head hurt, so I’m gonna go lie down.
(Propers to RockPaperShotgun for sharing the above image, Valve for sending it to them, and Jesus for making this all possible.)
My personal hope is an OS X port of the Source engine, which would give us all of the HL2 games, CS:Source, L4D 1&2, TF2 and, of course, Portal. The Orange Box was fun on the 360, but I think TF2 with a mouse would be way better (although my mousing wrist still cringes with memories of Unreal Tournament).
Yessss! The only reason I have XP on my Mac is for the Orange Box. Please let this happen.
What graphics cards are available for Macs? Anything worth gaming on?
My MacBook Pro sports a 512MB PCIe 16x GeForce 8600M GT that gets the job done.
That is worth gaming on, yes Earnest.
Thanks for the info. I had no clue.
I have the 8700M GT in my Dell which is only slightly more powerful (if that) and I have no problems gaming at all.