Monsieur, you are really spoiling us

Yesterday saw a triple-whammy of sugary Apple gaming goodness:

  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. 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! :)

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  • http://bazlurgan.blogspot.com/ Bazlurgan

    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!

  • Stodge

    Correction – Portal is free to play until the 24th. Not sure exactly what that means yet.

  • Stodge

    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.

  • http://www.stevestreeting.com Steve

    Strange, it’s been totally stable so far on my MBP and shuts down fine.