In other news Valve announced that their revolutionary "content delivery service" known as "Steam" is being ported to OSX and will be available as early as April 2010. No really its true, straight from the horse's mouth. In addition the actual client and "Steam-works" being brought to Apple's operating system Valve also plans to port all of the Source Engine games, these include:
- Half Life 2 Series
- Counter Strike: Source
- Team Fortress 2
- Left 4 Dead Series
- Day of Defeat: Source
Not a fan of Valve's flag-ship gaming engine? Not a problem, take a peak at these other titles already for sale on Steam that have a native OSX client:
- Aliens versus Predator (original)
- Altitude
- And Yet It Moves
- Ankh: Battle of the Gods
- Ankh: Heart of Osiris
- Aquaria
- BioShock
- Braid
- Brainpipe
- Broken Sword: The Shadow of the Templars
- Broken Sword II: The Smoking Mirror
- Call of Duty
- Call of Duty: United Offensive
- Call of Duty 2
- Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare
- Championship Manager 2007
- Championship Manager 2008
- Championship Manager 2010
- Civilization IV
- Civilization IV: Beyond the Sword
- Civilization IV: Colonization
- Civilization IV: Warlords
- Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3
- Darwinia
- DEFCON
- Delta Force: Black Hawk Down
- Deus Ex
- Doom
- Doom 3
- Doom 3: Resurrection of Evil
- Doom II: Hell on Earth
- Dragon Age: Origins
- Elven Legacy
- Enemy Territory: Quake Wars
- Eschalon: Book I
- Europa Universalis III
- Europa Universalis: Rome
- FlatOut 2
- Final Doom
- Football Manager 2009
- Football Manager 2010
- Football Manager Live
- Freedom Force
- Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas
- Harvest: Massive Encounter
- Hearts of Iron II
- Hearts of Iron III
- Heretic
- Heroes of Might and Magic V
- Hexen
- Hexen II
- Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis
- Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
- Jade Empire
- LEGO Batman: The Videogame
- LEGO Indiana Jones: The Original Adventures
- LEGO Indiana Jones 2: The Adventure Continues
- LEGO Star Wars: The Complete Saga
- Loom
- Luxor
- Luxor 2
- Luxor 3
- Machinarium
- Multiwinia
- Osmos
- Peggle
- Peggle Nights
- Penguins Arena
- Penumbra: Black Plague
- Penumbra: Overture
- Penumbra: Requiem
- Plants vs. Zombies
- Prey
- Prince of Persia (2008)
- Puzzle Quest: Challenge of the Warlords
- Quake
- Quake II
- Quake III Arena
- Return to Castle Wolfenstein
- Rome: Total War
- Samorost 2
- Shaun White Snowboarding
- Sid Meier’s Pirates
- SiN
- Spore
- Star Wars: Force Unleashed
- Star Wars Jedi Knight II: Jedi Outcast
- Star Wars Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy
- Star Wars: Dark Forces
- Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic
- Tales of Monkey Island
- The Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena
- The Dig
- The Graveyard
- The Path
- TOCA Race Driver 3
- Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six 3: Raven Shield
- Tomb Raider: Anniversary
- Torchlight
- Unreal
- Unreal Tournament
- Unreal Tournament 2004
- Uplink
- Virtual Families
- Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning
- World of Goo
- X²: The Threat
- X³: Reunion
- X³: Terran Conflict
What brought this seemingly sudden announcement from Valve? Well a few months back a rumor had surfaced that a lead Steam developer had posted looking for people with experience porting Windows software to OSX and Linux.
Yep, that is right and Linux.
While there is still nothing official about the latter of these two operating systems from Valve, all I have to say is that the porting of Source Engine to use OpenGL only makes the eventuality of them running without emulation on Linux much more likely (not to mention in the mean time Windows games that run under OpenGL tend to perform better under Wine).
~Jeff Hoogland
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