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Valve: Now Playing on Mac

News   March 8, 2010 at 4:58 pm Sam Machkovech

As we guessed last week, Bellevue’s Valve Software has now officially announced that its game store, and many of its games, will come to Mac in April. What we didn’t guess was this bit of technical brilliance:

All of our future games will release simultaneously on Windows, Mac, and the Xbox 360. Updates for the Mac will be available simultaneously with the Windows updates. Furthermore, Mac and Windows players will be part of the same multiplayer universe, sharing servers, lobbies, and so forth.

And that’s all thanks to the coders at Valve, which means Mac games fans should expect more companies to take advantage and port their stuff in Apple’s direction. Does this mean I should switch? Well, I suppose I’ll wait for Valve to release a paper-devouring game first:

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  • http://twitter.com/orinthe Nathaniel Ekoniak

    I have to say, from a technical standpoint (not to mention a user experience standpoint) this seems like a no-brainer. The internet doesn't care if you're a Mac or PC, so if you're not using a proprietary service (e.g., Xbox Live, or the Playstation Network, or whatever) for your multiplayer, then obviously your operating system shouldn't mean walling some people off into multiplayer ghettos.

    What's much more impressive, to me, is that (reportedly) Valve is letting people who already own the PC version of their games get the Mac version via Steam for free! I actually put together a Windows PC purely so that I could play Left4Dead with my friends, so I'm really excited that I a) don't have to switch to my PC when I want to play a game, and b) don't have to buy all the games I already bought all over again!