Steam for Mac opens a portal to May 12, steps through

Valve promised that Steam on Mac would arrive in April. As you're no doubt aware, April is nearly over. Does that make Steam... vaporware? Not quite. Put away the Caruso sunglasses for two more weeks, because our friends at Joystiq just received a one-line email reading: "Valve today announced the public release of Steam for the Mac is May 12. Please stay tuned for more information." Oh well -- at least you're not waiting for Steam on Linux, and you can always stock up on Razer peripherals while you endure the delay.

[Adambadam Posted Apr 29th 2010 9:01PM]

Will there be any support for controlers besides the keyboard an mouse?

[Bratyr Posted Apr 29th 2010 9:07PM]

@Adambadam
No but they'll let you use more than one mouse button, be grateful.

[dzeikei Posted Apr 29th 2010 10:14PM]

@Bratyr not if you are using magic mouse...
Triple finger side swipe for mouse button 3 etc lol

[Rohan Posted Apr 29th 2010 9:03PM]

I've been waiting for a beta invite, which was apparently coming out in april. Dammit, ohwell.

[ebrentnelson Posted Apr 29th 2010 9:15PM]

I guess Adobe wasn't the only one needing access to those GPUs

[Slygathor Posted Apr 29th 2010 9:23PM]

Wow, nice illustration. XD

[dicobalt Posted Apr 29th 2010 9:28PM]

Apple sues Valve in ... 3... 2... 1

[Dew Posted Apr 29th 2010 10:08PM]

Looks like it's time to introduce Mac users to Valve time.

http://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/Valve_Time

[Dinochicken Posted Apr 29th 2010 11:52PM]

@Dew

Heh heh, I was just about to post that.

[Sable Drakon Posted Apr 29th 2010 10:17PM]

Kinda funny to watch Valve waste thousands of dollars to do something that hardly any of the Mac community really cares about. Perhaps, seeing this fail will show that making something for 5% of 5% of the market is worthless.

[Dew Posted Apr 29th 2010 10:30PM]

@Sable Drakon The motivation for Valve here seems to lay in the assumption that Apple's consumer base froths at the mouth and pays through the nose for every and anything related to Apple.

[Pearl Jam Posted Apr 29th 2010 10:24PM]

Portal 2 FTW

[cdf74dc9 Posted Apr 29th 2010 10:47PM]

Grats Macs. That's 8 more game to to compatibility list :) or is it 10, I dunno

[VAreAct Posted Apr 29th 2010 11:09PM]

Letting the Mac community have access to Valve is like putting a palm tree in Alaska it will last maybe a day or two then die off. Can't wait to catch one game playing CSS, TF2, L4D2, BBC2 with their magic mouse and wireless keyboard hahahaha

[NeoDarkSaver Posted Apr 29th 2010 11:36PM]

we dont get to vote?

[delicatessen lama Posted Apr 29th 2010 11:44PM]

I read razer peripherals and immediately imagined people cutting themselves because they have to wait longer for Steam on Mac.

[SpiralGear Posted Apr 30th 2010 2:06AM]

I think the TF2 sentry and the Portal turret are the perfect analogy for Pc vs Mac.



The TF2 turret is cheaper, more upgradable and more stable. But some Asshole can install a sapper on it and ruin the whole thing.

The portal turret never gets sapped, but its way over priced, not upgradable... And umm.... Top heavy.... Because macs are top heavy....



I don't know this analogy sounded better in my head.

[vivimagicworks Posted Apr 30th 2010 4:16AM]

Hmmm this seems familiar. HTC with the Hero update ring a bell. But it will boost Macs chances a bit with the argument of not being a gaming rig.

[The Madman Posted Apr 30th 2010 4:30AM]

"at least you're not waiting for Steam on Linux"

-- I am :(

[bdawson08 Posted May 12th 2010 12:39PM]

so uhhhh where is it????