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Hace unos días Steam presentó su nuevo interface. A parte de las novedades en interface y usabilidad esta nueva versión abandona el motor de render de Internet Explorer, que solo se encuentra presente en plataformas Windows, en favor de Webkit, motor multiplataforma usado por Konqueror, Chrome y Safari entre otros. También se pudieron encontrar entre los archivos del parche iconos y gráficos relacionados con MacOS, como los botones de maximizar y minimizar. .

Os dejamos con el comunicado oficial que habla por si solo: .

Leading Gaming Service Expands to Mac Platform.

Valve announced today it will bring Steam, Valve's gaming service, and Source, Valve's gaming engine, to the Mac. .

Steam and Valve's library of games including Left 4 Dead 2, Team Fortress 2, Counter-Strike, Portal, and the Half-Life series will be available in April. .

"As we transition from entertainment as a product to entertainment as a service, customers and developers need open, high-quality Internet clients," said Gabe Newell, President of Valve. "The Mac is a great platform for entertainment services." .

"Our Steam partners, who are delivering over a thousand games to 25 million Steam clients, are very excited about adding support for the Mac," said Jason Holtman, Director of Business Development at Valve. "Steamworks for the Mac supports all of the Steamworks APIs, and we have added a new feature, called Steam Play, which allows customers who purchase the product for the Mac or Windows to play on the other platform free of charge. For example, Steam Play, in combination with the Steam Cloud, allows a gamer playing on their work PC to go home and pick up playing the same game at the same point on their home Mac. We expect most developers and publishers to take advantage of Steam Play." .

"We looked at a variety of methods to get our games onto the Mac and in the end decided to go with native versions rather than emulation," said John Cook, Director of Steam Development. "The inclusion of WebKit into Steam, and of OpenGL into Source gives us a lot of flexibility in how we move these technologies forward. We are treating the Mac as a tier-1 platform so all of our future games will release simultaneously on Windows, Mac, and the Xbox 360. .

Updates for the Mac will be available simultaneously with the Windows updates.

Furthermore, Mac and Windows players will be part of the same multiplayer universe, sharing servers, lobbies, and so forth. We fully support a heterogeneous mix of servers and clients. The first Mac Steam client will be the new generation currently in beta testing on Windows." .

Portal 2 will be Valve's first simultaneous release for Mac and Windows. "Checking in code produces a PC build and Mac build at the same time, automatically, so the two platforms are perfectly in lock-step," said Josh Weier, Portal 2 Project Lead. "We're always playing a native version on the Mac right alongside the PC. This makes it very easy for us and for anyone using Source to do game development for the Mac." .

Support for the Mac in Source and Steamworks is available to third parties immediately. Interested developers should contact Jason Holtman at jasonh@valvesoftware.com. .

Lista de juegos presentes en Steam que poseen versión de Mac: .

• 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
• Elven Legacy
• Enemy Territory: Quake Wars
• Eschalon: Book I
• Europa Universalis III
• Europa Universalis: Rome
• 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
• 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
• Penumbra: Black Plague
• Penumbra: Overture
• Penumbra: Requiem
• Plants vs. Zombies
• Prey
• Prince of Persia (2008)
• Quake
• Quake II
• Quake III Arena
• Return to Castle Wolfenstein
• Rome: Total War
• Samorost 2
• Shaun White Snowboarding
• 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
• 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

A partir de Abril podríamos empezar a disfrutar de nuestra cuenta de Steam en Mac, ahora toca esperar un poco.