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Valve Confirms Steam Client for Mac PC - Tuesday 9th March 2010
After weeks of speculation and a series of less-than-subtle hints from Valve, it's finally official: Steam is coming to Mac. The folks behind the popular digital distribution service confirmed this morning that they'll be releasing a version of Steam for Mac OS X sometime in April.
Now, what about all the obvious questions raised by this announcement? Which games are launching with the service? Does Valve plan on using software emulation to run their games on Mac? Will a customer who owns the PC version of a game on Steam automatically unlock the game in the Mac client? The developers answered as many of these questions as they could in today's press release.
Jason Holtman, Valve's director of business development, clarified a few key points: [INDENT]"Our Steam partners, who are delivering over a thousand games to 25 million Steam clients, are very excited about adding support for the Mac. Steamworks for the Mac supports all of the Steamworks APIs, and we have added a new feature, called Steam Play, which allows customers who purchase the product for the Mac or Windows to play on the other platform free of charge. For example, Steam Play, in combination with the Steam Cloud, allows a gamer playing on their work PC to go home and pick up playing the same game at the same point on their home Mac. We expect most developers and publishers to take advantage of Steam Play."[/INDENT]
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