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More Steam About Steam For Mac
The web has recently been abuzz about Valve's digital distribution channel, Steam, coming to Macs, and the latest indications from the company seem pretty clear.
"In anticipation of an upcoming announcement," Valve has released these images showing characters from some of its titles with seeming Mac iconography. The most obvious being the shot merging Portal and Team Fortress turrets with Apple's famous "I'm a Mac, and I'm a PC" TV ad campaign. Half-Life's Gordan Freeman is showing in an iMac pastels-colored suit with what looks to be an Apple logo on his chest, while a Team Fortress 2 Heavy is captured as an iPod silhouette. Finally, Macworld has one of Alyx Vance replicated the old 1984 Mac commercial, and Rock, Paper Shotgun has one of an old Mac print ad with the Steam logo.
Mac gaming is pretty much a joke, so Steam coming to Macs would be a pretty hefty infusion of great games for their OS. The problem is, anyone who knows about Valve's games probably already is a PC gamer, or at least has played these titles on the Xbox 360. Anyone a Mac gamer/owner who hasn't played these titles? Regardless, it's good that OSX owners will get quality titles from Valve and other Steam partners.
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