Senin, 08 Maret 2010

Left 4 Dead 2, Team Fortress 2, Portal and Steam Coming to Mac in April [Valve]

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After such reflection and whatever not-so-subtle hinting, Valve has officially declared a Mac edition of favourite recreation assist Steam reaching in April, and its transfer Left 4 Dead 2, Team Fortress 2, Counter-Strike, Portal, and the Half-Life program with it.

While rumblings of Steam reaching to the Mac papers hit been rousing for quite whatever time, the prototypal solidified indicators came terminal month, when Mac-specific graphics were institute in the beta effort files for the newborn Steam service. Then Valve took things a travel further, combing Mac users with a program of images featuring favourite Valve games desegrated with Mac themes.

"As we transformation from recreation as a creation to recreation as a service, customers and developers requirement open, high-quality cyberspace clients," said Gabe Newell, President of Valve. "The Mac is a enthusiastic papers for recreation services."

The Mac edition of Steam module allow every of the features of its PC counterpart, as substantially as a newborn feature titled Steam Play, which allows customers who acquire the mettlesome on digit papers to download and endeavor it for the another at no added charge.

While it relic to be seen how some third-party developers module advise on commission the Mac train, Valve is full-steam aweigh on activity the platform, eschewing favourite emulation techniques to have autochthonous Mac games, period and fellow with the PC versions from here on out.

"We looked at a difference of methods to intend our games onto the Mac and in the modify definite to go with autochthonous versions kinda than emulation," said Evangelist Cook, Director of Steam Development. "The body of WebKit into Steam, and of OpenGL into Source gives us a aggregation of plasticity in how we advise these technologies forward. We are treating the Mac as a tier-1 papers so every of our forthcoming games module promulgation simultaneously on Windows, Mac, and the Xbox 360. Updates for the Mac module be acquirable simultaneously with the Windows updates. Furthermore, Mac and Windows players module be conception of the aforementioned multiplayer universe, distribution servers, lobbies, and so forth. We full hold a miscellaneous intermixture of servers and clients. The prototypal Mac Steam computer module be the newborn procreation currently in beta investigating on Windows."

Valve's prototypal simultaneous promulgation for Mac and PC module be Portal 2, declared early this month.

And today Mac users module be healthy to undergo the experience of a super Steam release. I can't move to deal that with you guys.

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