Jeff Campbell
05-13-2010, 06:30 PM
<div class='os_post_top_link'><a href='http://theappleblog.com/2010/05/12/steam-for-mac-now-live/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+TheAppleBlog+(TheAppleBlog)' target='_blank'>http://theappleblog.com/2010/05/12/...+(TheAppleBlog)</a><br /><br /></div><p><em>"Today is a great day for the Mac gaming crowd, as Valve has officially released the Steam client for Mac. For those of you unfamiliar with Steam (and it may be quite a few of you if you don't look across to the PC side of the fence that often), it's a software marketplace that deals in the digital distribution of games."</em></p><p><img src="http://images.thoughtsmedia.com/resizer/thumbs/size/600/at/auto/1273769000.usr105634.jpg" /></p><p>This really worked well when I used to play on my Windows machine (yes, I used to have one. No really, I did!), so I'm excited to try this out on my Mac. <a href="http://store.steampowered.com/" target="_blank">Steam</a> offers a very similar experience to the Xbox, with leaderboards, player matching and achievements. What it also does is work no matter what operating system you are using, it's cross-platform so it doesn't matter that your friend is using a Windows machine and you are using OS X. And until May 24th, you can get <a href="http://www.appletell.com/apple/comment/mac-users-get-free-portal-for-a-limited-time/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+appletell+Appletell" target="_blank">Portal free</a>. What are you waiting for? </p>