'Portal' and 'Torchlight' Amongst Mac Steam Launch Titles
Portal for Mac launches tomorrow
We're giving Valve Software's Steam launch a lot of coverage here at MacRumors -- but for good reason. Steam may do more to attract game developers to the Mac platform than Apple has ever done. Steam has announced that the Mac client will become available on Wednesday, May 12th and that new games will be released every Wednesday.
Valve's own Portal (above) is one of the launch titles as well as Runic Games highly acclaimed Torchlight.
"We're very excited to be bringing Torchlight to the Mac," said Max Schaefer, co-founder of Runic Games. "Having Steam for the Mac solves so many problems for us as a developer. We look forward to our future games coming out on the Mac as well."
While Torchlight had been previously planned to come to the Mac anyway, the developers are clearly pleased that Steam will be available on the Mac.Torchlight for Mac launches tomorrow
Read our first impressions and explanation of Steam for Mac.
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27 months ago
Aw, that means I have to wait at least another week for Team Fortress 2. Oh, well.
Does anybody know if the file sizes, of the games, have significantly changed when going from Windows to OS X? Are they smaller, bigger, or around the same?
Does anybody know if the file sizes, of the games, have significantly changed when going from Windows to OS X? Are they smaller, bigger, or around the same?
27 months ago
There's only one set of games that would make me so happy, and that's GTA.
Vice City, San Andreas and I guess the new one.
But mainly San Andreas! An oldish game, I know. But one I play a fair bit when I'm on Bootcamp.
:)
Vice City, San Andreas and I guess the new one.
But mainly San Andreas! An oldish game, I know. But one I play a fair bit when I'm on Bootcamp.
:)
27 months ago
Torchlight is an excellent game if you like the Diablo series. It's pretty much the same game style and even has some of the same developers. There's a pretty big mod community also.
The Valve games have always been fairly top notch. If you don't like FPS games but enjoy puzzles, Portal is an excellent choice and not something to avoid as it's not really an FPS.
Steam has sales all the time too. I know at some point last year you could get Team Fortress 2 for $2.49! I already owned it but you can also gift games to people so I bought it for all my friends that didn't have it.
The Valve games have always been fairly top notch. If you don't like FPS games but enjoy puzzles, Portal is an excellent choice and not something to avoid as it's not really an FPS.
Steam has sales all the time too. I know at some point last year you could get Team Fortress 2 for $2.49! I already owned it but you can also gift games to people so I bought it for all my friends that didn't have it.
27 months ago
I've been meaning to get back into Torchlight recently. Definitely interested in seeing how it compares to the PC version.
Torchlight is an excellent game if you like the Diablo series. It's pretty much the same game style and even has some of the same developers. There's a pretty big mod community also.
I heard the same guy who did Diablo music did it for Torchlight, not sure if that's true though. Either way the music is excellent.
27 months ago
I hope my Macbook (late 09) can handle playing these games decently. With 4gb of RAM and a 500 GB HD I hope it will, it'd be nice to play Left 4 Dead on my Macbook which goes with me everywhere.
27 months ago
I hope my Macbook (late 09) can handle playing these games decently. With 4gb of RAM and a 500 GB HD I hope it will, it'd be nice to play Left 4 Dead on my Macbook which goes with me everywhere.
You'll be fine! I use to play Left 4 Dead 2 on my Oct. 08 MacBook. :D
27 months ago
I hope my Macbook (late 09) can handle playing these games decently. With 4gb of RAM and a 500 GB HD I hope it will
What does HD size have to do with handling games? It doesn't matter if it was a 80 Gb drive for that purpose. RAM is also less important then GPU (video-adapter)
27 months ago
Games should be a big deal for AAPL. I resisted going into the light for years because I wanted my PC games. If Steam works out (don't forget "Steam Time") more and more people will come to AAPL and the machines themselves will be improved with better graphics/processors...etc. Maybe this will place more focus on AAPL computer development rather than hand held devices. Who knows?
27 months ago
Now I know how people who don't care about the iPad feel about news story after news story on that. Is there a way to hide this stuff in the news feed?
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