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Is Valve Bringing Steam To The Mac?

Yesterday's announced update to Valve's Steam digital distribution service came with a surprise—hints that the Half-Life developer may be planning to add Mac OS X support to the currently Windows-only software.

Steam forum members dug through newly released files from the recently launched open beta and dug up a handful of Mac OS X-specific graphics, like the open, maximize and minimize jewel icons that are used in the operating system's windows.

While those icons could be chalked up to Steam's change to a WebKit-based rendering engine for the client—Valve has moved away from Microsoft's Internet Explorer for Steam's new UI—there are a few other Mac-specific graphics buried within. That includes system dock graphics and a handful of OS X menu files.

While the current Steam library is Windows only, many of Valve's publishing partners, including EA, Take-Two Interactive, PopCap Games and id Software, publish Mac versions of their games, a potential audience whose needs are not being met by Steam.

We've reached out to Valve to see why the developer has added OS X graphics to Steam and if that means support for the Apple crowd, but have not yet heard back.

Source : http://kotaku.com/5479388/is-valve-brin ... to-the-mac

Yeah, that'd be what I mentioned on the Steam thread I posted to before I saw this.

http://www.joystiq.com/2010/03/08/valve ... /#comments

Its true folks!!! Steam here i COME!!!

I'd be curious how well this performs on everyone's Macs (macbooks specifically).

might just factor in to my decision when it comes to replacing my laptop.

Pretty awesome that it sounds like you can play on Mac or PC with a single purchase. That could influence my decision to eventually snag a MacBook of some sort.