Bringing the service to Macs means wider selection, quicker updates and more episodic content for Apple's traditionally game-deprived computers.If you already have a Windows PC ideally a gaming PC with powerful enough graphics hardware, enough CPU power, and a big hard drive you can use SteamвЂ™s in-home streaming feature to stream games running on your Windows PC to your Mac. With more than 1,000 games and 25 million user accounts, Steam is by one estimate responsible for more than 70 percent of digital game purchases. About 200.Steam is the pre-eminent digital distribution platform for PCs.

The first Mac Steam client will be the new generation currently in beta testing on Windows.'Portal 2 will be Valve's first simultaneous release for Mac and Windows, the company said.Bringing Valve's gaming engine Source, and the company's Steamworks development and publishing suite, to the Mac will make it easier for developers to bring games to OS X.'Steamworks for the Mac supports all of the Steamworks APIs,' said Jason Holtman, Valve's director of business development, in the press release. We fully support a heterogeneous mix of servers and clients. Furthermore, Mac and Windows players will be part of the same multiplayer universe, sharing servers, lobbies and so forth. 'Updates for the Mac will be available simultaneously with the Windows updates. If you're playing Half-Life 2 on your home PC but then head out on the road with your MacBook, you can continue your game-in-progress.'We looked at a variety of methods to get our games onto the Mac and in the end decided to go with native versions rather than emulation,' said John Cook, director of Steam development, in Monday's press release.'We are treating the Mac as a tier-1 platform so all of our future games will release simultaneously on Windows, Mac and the Xbox 360,' Cook said. By using the Steam Cloud feature that the company introduced in 2008, players can save in-progress games online, then call up those saved games no matter which version they're playing.

Telltale Games, creator of the episodic Sam and Max games, announced last month that it would be moving to Mac, even inviting fans to vote on which of its games should be ported over first.While Telltale has not confirmed any of its games will be on the Mac version of Steam, Connors called getting his companies titles on Valve's digital-distribution platform 'a no-brainer. And that ignores the fact that the cycle on these closed platforms would have taken years to get all these updates through.'Most recently, Valve leveraged its ability to push updates through Steam and engage its fan base by dropping hints into its 2007 cult hit Portal about the game's upcoming sequel, letting the fans be an active part of the game's announcement.'We want to bring content creators and consumers closer together to minimize the latency between what somebody on the team does versus a fan's ability to participate in that experience, not put more barriers between them,' Newell said.Valve isn't the only PC developer with a strong, engaged fan base looking to Mac. Would be several hundred thousand dollars to do the updates that we did to Team Fortress 2. For instance, the developer has updated its 2007 game Team Fortress 2 more than 100 times, Newell said.This wouldn't be possible on a closed system like Microsoft's Xbox Live, he said: 'Microsoft's QA fees.

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