Star Fox Runner Posted March 4, 2010 Share Posted March 4, 2010 I was looking around on some Mac websites and I came across this. Apparently, Valve has been releasing teaser images to various mac enthusiast sites, implying that they have something in the works for Mac. Whether this means new games, ports of older games, or maybe even Steam, no one knows. But they sure know how to tease us! Check it out.http://www.macnn.com/articles/10/03/03/teaser.hints.at.portal.team.fortress.2/http://www.macnn.com/articles/10/02/24/could.represent.major.win.for.mac.industry/http://www.macrumors.com/2010/03/03/valve-teases-upcoming-half-life-release-for-mac/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest FoXXX Posted March 5, 2010 Share Posted March 5, 2010 I was looking around on some Mac websites and I came across this. Apparently, Valve has been releasing teaser images to various mac enthusiast sites, implying that they have something in the works for Mac. Whether this means new games, ports of older games, or maybe even Steam, no one knows. But they sure know how to tease us! Check it out.http://www.macnn.com/articles/10/03/03/teaser.hints.at.portal.team.fortress.2/http://www.macnn.com/articles/10/02/24/could.represent.major.win.for.mac.industry/http://www.macrumors.com/2010/03/03/valve-teases-upcoming-half-life-release-for-mac/I don't understand why Steam is necessary :SBut cool they're porting it to Mac anyways :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kursed Posted March 5, 2010 Share Posted March 5, 2010 Steam is a program which you can purchase and run games like half-life2,max payne2,Counterstrike source and many more games without a cd!http://store.steampowered.com/about/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest FoXXX Posted March 5, 2010 Share Posted March 5, 2010 Steam is a program which you can purchase and run games like half-life2,max payne2,Counterstrike source and many more games without a cd!I know, but you have to launch steam in order to launch the game, right :S Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kursed Posted March 5, 2010 Share Posted March 5, 2010 I know, but you have to launch steam in order to launch the game, right :Shttp://store.steampowered.com/about/ yeah so it adds alot of features to the games like in game im's voice... achievments. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sabre Posted March 5, 2010 Share Posted March 5, 2010 It's also a really good way to keep games what with auto patching and the like, and the service has been quite good in my experience. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Star Fox Runner Posted March 5, 2010 Author Share Posted March 5, 2010 I've heard a lot of good things about Steam, but I've never been able to use it because I'm a Mac user. If this really is coming to Mac, I'll be excited. That and the fact that I'll finally be able to get Team Fortress 2! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kursed Posted March 5, 2010 Share Posted March 5, 2010 I've heard a lot of good things about Steam, but I've never been able to use it because I'm a Mac user. If this really is coming to Mac, I'll be excited. That and the fact that I'll finally be able to get Team Fortress 2!and max payne2 for the Paths of fate mod! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Foxer Posted March 5, 2010 Share Posted March 5, 2010 Here we go again with this, I'll say what I said at MacGarden.So just because they found a few icons in the Steam GUI folder they're going to assume that Valve will make Steam available on the Mac? That's ridiculous. Gabe Newell tried to work with Apple but they didn't cooperate. I believe Newell said that he also had no plans of releasing Half-Life 2 for the Mac, which we can easily assume that he has no plans to put Steam on the Mac either.None of you seem to understand how complicated it would be for Valve to release Steam on the Mac. There are a number a factors, one could assume that a Mac user would want things like the game Armed Assault 2 after downloading Steam, now of course ARMA 2 is not available on the Mac OS so after realizing this, Mac users would immediately abandon Steam for it would be quite useless. Now Steam currently sells over one thousand games, now could you see Valve trying to port all of those games to the Macintosh platform? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DZComposer Posted March 5, 2010 Share Posted March 5, 2010 Yet like 90% of the games on Steam require DirectX. I don't recall that being on Mac.Though maybe this development will rekindle interest in OpenGL. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest FoXXX Posted March 5, 2010 Share Posted March 5, 2010 Yet like 90% of the games on Steam require DirectX. I don't recall that being on Mac.Though maybe this development will rekindle interest in OpenGL.That would be great :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sabre Posted March 5, 2010 Share Posted March 5, 2010 I think if steam does come to mac, then it will be for new stuff such as rage. It's a pretty serious port job otherwise. They did bring the games to Xbox though, which gives hope. Just don't expect all the online games. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DZComposer Posted March 5, 2010 Share Posted March 5, 2010 Xbox has DirectX... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Star Fox Runner Posted March 5, 2010 Author Share Posted March 5, 2010 Yet like 90% of the games on Steam require DirectX. I don't recall that being on Mac.Though maybe this development will rekindle interest in OpenGL.Well, while I was reading one of the many articles mentioning this, I saw that Valve is also searching for Mac engineers, which means they could be attempting to rework everything to work on a Mac OS X based platform. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest FoXXX Posted March 5, 2010 Share Posted March 5, 2010 Xbox has DirectX...If I remember right, Microsoft was considering naming Xbox DirectXbox. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Krystal Posted March 5, 2010 Share Posted March 5, 2010 I think that when a company starts teasing their products for Mac, it's a fair assumption to make that they are planning something for Mac.If steam comes over, it'll be great for everyone. Probably, it will be a transitional thing, where they make the service available, but leave it up to the game developers to make sure the games are compatible. There's no reason something done with DirectX can't be done with OpenGL, some things are easier, some things are harder, but they are both capable graphics API. Consider Unity, a game engine capable of triple-A quality titles, and it exports directly to Windows, Mac, Browser, iPhone, and Wii. Once the option is available to developers, developers will use it. (BTW, Apple just this morning restructured their developer program. In addition to the free tools already available, full access to advanced tools and pre-release technologies is now only $99, which is a few hundred dollars cheaper than before.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sabre Posted March 7, 2010 Share Posted March 7, 2010 I think that when a company starts teasing their products for Mac, it's a fair assumption to make that they are planning something for Mac.If steam comes over, it'll be great for everyone. Probably, it will be a transitional thing, where they make the service available, but leave it up to the game developers to make sure the games are compatible. There's no reason something done with DirectX can't be done with OpenGL, some things are easier, some things are harder, but they are both capable graphics API. Consider Unity, a game engine capable of triple-A quality titles, and it exports directly to Windows, Mac, Browser, iPhone, and Wii. Once the option is available to developers, developers will use it. (BTW, Apple just this morning restructured their developer program. In addition to the free tools already available, full access to advanced tools and pre-release technologies is now only $99, which is a few hundred dollars cheaper than before.)Right. id is into0 steam, and they are known for making games on Mac and Linux as well as PC. My money is on Rage being one of the reasons for this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fox-Shot Posted March 7, 2010 Share Posted March 7, 2010 If they do port Orange Box games to OpenGL, I'm going to see if OpenGL version will be on PC, I like OGL much more than DX (runs better, not such a strain, seems to increase framerate on Intel based chipsets). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Krystal Posted March 7, 2010 Share Posted March 7, 2010 If they do port Orange Box games to OpenGL, I'm going to see if OpenGL version will be on PC, I like OGL much more than DX (runs better, not such a strain, seems to increase framerate on Intel based chipsets).A lost cause. Windows has never shipped any version of OpenGL beyond 1.1 which is from the 90's I believe. You have to rely on what your graphics card ACTUALLY supports, and then code for that. You can't go based on what Windows says you have. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sabre Posted March 8, 2010 Share Posted March 8, 2010 Revealed that it's for Portal 2 and future source games. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Krystal Posted March 9, 2010 Share Posted March 9, 2010 Steam, all of Valve's games, and the Source engine, are coming to Mac this Aprilhttp://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1181766 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kursed Posted March 9, 2010 Share Posted March 9, 2010 Steam, all of Valve's games, and the Source engine, are coming to Mac this Aprilhttp://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1181766that's good news for mac users!by the way for steam users and Dash... my steam is gatomon2005 tell me who you are when you request me as a friend otherwise you will not be approved Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest FoXXX Posted March 9, 2010 Share Posted March 9, 2010 Also, you're going to need to get a better mouse for FPS games, 1 button mouse is a joke... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Star Fox Runner Posted March 10, 2010 Author Share Posted March 10, 2010 WOOT! NOW I CAN FINALLY GET TEAM FORTRESS 2!!!!!!!!!! One question, will Team Fortress and the other Orange Box titles be standalone, or will they only be available on Steam?that's good news for mac users!by the way for steam users and Dash... my steam is gatomon2005 tell me who you are when you request me as a friend otherwise you will not be approvedDash? Do you mean me? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Matt macdowel Posted March 10, 2010 Share Posted March 10, 2010 I was looking around on some Mac websites and I came across this. Apparently, Valve has been releasing teaser images to various mac enthusiast sites, implying that they have something in the works for Mac. Whether this means new games, ports of older games, or maybe even Steam, no one knows. But they sure know how to tease us! Check it out.http://www.macnn.com/articles/10/03/03/teaser.hints.at.portal.team.fortress.2/http://www.macnn.com/articles/10/02/24/could.represent.major.win.for.mac.industry/http://www.macrumors.com/2010/03/03/valve-teases-upcoming-half-life-release-for-mac/ hmm intresting i wonder if they'll port it to the wii next! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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