Valve Marketers Tease Steam for Mac, Win the Internet
By Jared Newman
Even if you don’t own a Mac, you’ve got appreciate the way Valve is hinting at Steam for Apple computers. The digital game download and multiplayer platform has long been bound to PCs, but Valve teased big changes by sending some hilarious images to several gaming and Apple-related Web sites. They’re all parodies of famous Apple ad campaigns, including “Get a Mac,” the iPod silhouettes and the iconic 1984 Super Bowl commercial, with characters from Valve games such as Half-Life, Portal and Left 4 Dead. It seems likely that Valve will make things official at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco next week. For now, enjoy the images. [via Boing Boing]
Sunday, March 7, 2010 8:58PM
It seems like the question that comes up a lot is what non-casual games are on the Mac. Beyond the ports of AAA games that came to the Mac much later than their Windows counterparts, there have been some companies who do support Mac and PC right out of the box natively, Blizzard being one of the more notable.
Utilizing the power of the Unity game engine, you can quite easily port a game to both platforms without much “tweaking” at all. With Unity gaining popularity (http://unity3d.com/gallery/game-list/) you’re likely to see more cross platform titles being developed. For example, we are and indie developer, but we are making what we consider to be a AAA quality game that will be for Mac and PC right out of the box. You can check it out at http://www.ascensionwar.com or look us up on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/ascensionwar