Έρχεται το Steam στο Mac

A source at Valve shared the screenshot below with Macworld “in anticipation of an upcoming announcement,” and it couldn’t deliver this news to anxious Mac gamers in any better way. To make sure we’re all on the same page when reading this image: it depicts Alyx Vance, a key character in Half Life 2, reenacting Apple’s famous 1984 commercial by throwing a crowbar (the trademark weapon of Half Life protagonist Gordon Freeman) at series villain Dr. Breen (not to be confused with our own not-at-all-villainous Senior Editor). Half Life itself is a flagship series for Valve, and one that Mac gamers have been begging for since the first game blew open the industry’s doors in 1998.

Among other suggestive tidbits, let’s not forget that a recent beta of the Steam client for Windows switched the store’s rendering engine to WebKit (which Apple uses in Safari on the Mac and iPhone), and also contained some telling Mac-specific files and images. There are no further details for now, however, as to any other games that Valve or other publishers might bring along with a Mac-version of Steam.

Steam and Half Life’s arrival on Apple’s platform would be a significant win for Mac gaming. Valve was originally founded by ex-Microsoft employees who never strayed very far from the nest. Most Valve games have only been made for Windows, and in recent years a handful of titles were co-developed for the Xbox—another Microsoft gaming platform.

Most in the gaming industry (understandably) can’t talk about the Mac without at least a snicker, but something must have changed recently. Maybe Apple made some concessions that game developers have famously requested, or Valve simply got serious about the Mac, or perhaps it was the success of a little gaming platform that rhymes with “shyPlod much.” But regardless of the reason, this portends exciting news.

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Κάλλιο αργά παρά ποτέ; Έτσι φαίνεται να πιστεύουν εκεί στην Valve για το Steam. Εγώ πάντως τους έχω χεσμένους. Θα είχανε τον απόλυτο σεβασμό μου αν κάνανε ότι κάνει η Blizzard κοντά στα είκοσι χρόνια τώρα: Mac + PC ταυτόχρονα σε όλα τους τα παιχνίδια και δικτυακές τεχνολογίες, με απόλυτη συμβατότητα μεταξύ τους. Εξάλλου, ας παίξουμε και κάνα παιχνίδι να δούμε αν είναι Mac παιχνίδι ή απλά ψευτομετατροπή από τα Windows και μετά τα λέμε.

Για όλους τους υπόλοιπους: Καλώς τα δεχτήκατε ;)