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Team Fortress 2 now on OS X, FREE this weekend

After Valve’s successful launch of Steam for Mac, this weekend sees the release one of the most anticipated Valve Mac games, Team Fortress 2, where the eternal debate of Mac vs. PC can finally be settled on the digital battlefield (Steam Play supports cross-platform play). The day Ian Fleming invented penicillin. The day scientists invented the moon landing. The day Sir Isaac Newton distracted the policemen investigating his wife’s murder by discovering gravity. All of these historic moments have two things in common. They helped steer the course of human…

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Steam for Mac coming Wednesday, as in tomorrow

It looks like Steam for Mac WILL start rolling out tomorrow, maybe even the real tomorrow, not the Valve Time equivalent, (generally meaning later this week).  With tomorrow’s launch will be the Mac version of Portal, plus the top-down dungeon crawler Torchlight, from Runic Games. It’s also interesting to note that although Team Fortress 2 is listed in the Steam for Mac beta software, and that it’s the graphic Valve has put in an iMac (above), it’s not listed in the initial batch of games to be released.  We’ll just…

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Steam For Mac – maybe May 12th

Just a couple of days after speculating that the Mac version of Steam looks like it’s going to miss the initial April launch comes word that this is indeed the case, and will be available May 12th.  For Mac users who haven’t yet delved into the world of Steam on a PC, or aren’t too familiar with Valve release schedules, don’t sweat it. It’s just another case of ‘Valve Time‘, where dates are never as they seem.

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Steam For Mac private beta suggests May release date

Valve Software announced last month that their Steam gaming platform would be available for Mac by the end of April, or possibly May.  Although it hasn’t hit wide release yet, it has been in a closed beta for a few weeks.  There’s an exhaustive thread running on the Steam forums, which suggests that a May launch day is likely.  Valve’s official word is still “coming soon”. Steam itself will require OS X 10.5 or higher, while Valve Source games will required Leopard, or Snow Leopard to run.  You can also…

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