Valve Officially Reveals Steam For Mac: Download For Free Today
Those three words pretty much say it all, and judging by the slow download rates that many eager Mac users are seeing, it seems to be a big hit already. Many PC gamers have been getting their games exclusively via Steam for years now, as it's far simpler than riding out to a store (lazy generation, we know). Valve has also stated that new slate of games will becoming available each Wednesday, with this week's titles listed below. Let the games begin, as they say!
STEAM FOR MAC AVAILABLE FOR DOWNLOAD
VALVE OFFERS PORTAL FOR FREE AS A SPECIAL LAUNCH OFFER
May 12, 2010 - Steam for the Mac is now available for immediate download at www.steamgames.com.
Each Wednesday a new group of games highlighting an area of Steam functionality will be released. This week's titles, which show off Steam Play, include:
And Yet It Moves Atlantis Sky Patrol Bejeweled 2 Deluxe Bob Came in Pieces Bookworm Deluxe Braid Brainpipe Chocolatier: Decadence by Design Chuzzle Deluxe City of Heroes: Architect Edition Civilization IV: The Complete Edition Cooking Dash Diaper Dash The Dig Diner Dash: Hometown Hero DinerTown Detective Agency DinerTown Tycoon Dream Chronicles: The Chosen Child Escape Rosecliff Island |
Fairway Solitaire Fitness Dash Football Manager 10 Galcon Fusion Gemini Lost Guns of Icarus Hotel Dash Suite Success Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade KrissX Loom Luxor Luxor 3 Luxor: Mahjong Machinarium Mahjong Roadshow Max and the Magic Marker My Tribe The Nightshift Code |
Nightshift Legacy: The Jaguar's Eye Parking Dash Peggle Deluxe Peggle Nights Portal Professor Fizzwizzle and the Molten Mystery Quantz Sam & Max: The Devil's Playhouse Tales of Monkey Island Season 1 Toki Tori Torchlight Trijinx: A Kristine Kross Mystery Unwell Mel Valarie Porter and the Scarlett Scandal Wandering Willows Wedding Dash 2: Rings Around the World World of Goo Zenerchi Zuma Deluxe |
Gamers who download Steam between now and May 24th will also receive a free copy of Valve's game of the year award-winning Portal.
"The Mac is a great platform for developers," said Gabe Newell, president of Valve. "And it's also great that we now have the ability to connect with Mac gamers via Steam. This is the beginning of a groundswell of games coming out for and fully utilizing the openness and power of the Mac."
For more information on Steam, please visit www.steamgames.com.
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