Yesterday saw a triple-whammy of sugary Apple gaming goodness:
- Steam for Mac was released, meaning all the games you own on Steam that are ported to the Mac can also be played there, free.
- Torchlight was a day-1 release on the service, meaning Ogre (and therefore code written by me) was among the very first on the service.
- Portal became free (for Mac and PC)
Wow. A great day for Mac gaming. I noticed that World Of Goo was up on day 1 too, and since I’d bought it on Steam I could play it right away on my MBP too. Yummy.
Curiously, considering it’s based on Ogre, I don’t actually own Torchlight on Steam – I had a free Windows-only copy from Runic, I bought a physical (Windows-only) copy for my shelf, and I bought copies for both my wife and Diablo-obsessed brother in law on Steam but I never got a copy there myself, so I haven’t tried it on the Mac yet. I need to ask my wife to log in on the MBP so I can try it! 
May 13th, 2010 at 11:24 am
All sounds like a good deal.
Free Portal… Free?
Must download later, just to give me an indication of how Portal 2 may run on my Poor performance PC!
May 13th, 2010 at 11:33 am
Correction – Portal is free to play until the 24th. Not sure exactly what that means yet.
May 13th, 2010 at 11:34 am
Oh and I installed Steam on my MBP last night. Portal downloaded at about 400B/s after about 10 failed attempts to download it. No surprises on such a big day but my laptop wouldn’t shut down until I used ‘kill -9′ to kill Steam. Even after I quit the GUI. Probably a silly bug but this thing has apparently been through beta testing. Apparently.
May 13th, 2010 at 11:40 am
Strange, it’s been totally stable so far on my MBP and shuts down fine.