Valve teases forthcoming announcement News

Steam for Mac, I think.

Hardly cryptic.

MGS4 on 360

it's got a 4, like MGS4, and it's in black and white, the colours that the 360 comes in

Hopefully, this is some sort of cryptic clue for half life episode 3.

My guess? Half Life Ep 3, featuring special guest stars Chell, GlaDOS and the surviving survivors from Left 4 Dead.
Or not. :)

http://www.shacknews.com/laryn.x?story=6...

Top right? Looks top left...

Would that be the rop right on the left?...

[EDIT: Darn! Beaten to it!]

So Valve will go to Macs before it go to PS3s

/EDIT typo

Steam for Mac, or L4D for iPhone. Or both :D

I think the smart money's on Mac- 'Different' was never used as a marketing ploy for any of the iPod lineage, only ever their desktop machines.

Wow this is giant news really..... such a great way to announce it :D

Valve do everything so right!

I hope it's steam for mac I can then have it on my mbp. I really like the new steam beta too

More Left 4 Dead? For Heaven's sake, when the hell is Episode 3 coming out? Half Life is arguably Valve's best series.

L4D and Steam for Mac i suppose.... but i agree with the previous poster, where is HL3

There's images on 6 sites.

This has link to 'em all

All here:
http://www.macrumors.com/2010/03/03/valv...

So is it Steam, or Valve's back catalogue? Hope it's Steam - hope games available for both can be downloaded FoC if you have the PC version. I might never need Windows again if this happens.

EDIT: Actually, I'm an idiot. One of the images even SAYS "Introducing Steam" and has the logo on the old Mac OS window :D

What a great way to advertise indeed, I agree with Rowlsten, when Valve do something they do it right. These images look fantastic, and it's great news for the Mac users.

I don't care how long they take with EpIII, like it's been said above, Valve do things the right way, and wont release something until it's good enough to release. And it's a serious wake up call to these so called AAA devs releasing massive piles of wank.

EpIII & Portal 2 are going to be off the muh' fuckin' radar!

List of Steam games with native support, and some that would be easy to get running

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
FlatOut 2
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
Jade Empire
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
Penguins Arena
Penumbra: Black Plague
Penumbra: Overture
Penumbra: Requiem
Plants vs. Zombies
Prey
Prince of Persia (2008)
Puzzle Quest: Challenge of the Warlords
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
The Path
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

Here are the ScummVM games, that should be a doddle to release for OSX too:
The Dig
Full Throttle
Some of the King’s Quest games
Some of the Space Quest games
Some of the Police Quest games

Here are some DOS games that should play nice with DOSbox on OSX:
Wolfenstein 3D
Commander Keen
X-Com series

i vote for "steam for mac". just makes sense. the mac community has been growing (bought one this year myself), and we're forced to bootcamp into win7 in order to play games (except for FM, Tales of Monkey Island and the Popcap games). It'll never bee as big as "Win Steam", but can still make sense business wise.

Ha. The other images are even more excellent. Especially like the turrets and OMNOMNOM. Valve are clever.

Half Life 3

(forget 2, ep 3 - the engine's too old now)

I hope there's a chance for us all, to play Episode 3 or something remotely similar, before we're greeted by the Grim Reaper... Almost six years since HL2 and still counting. :\

I would not be surprised if it is Left 4 Dead 3. They release same game with minor change with a 2 on it one year later and people with more money than sense buy same game, so why not release same game with a 3 on and make more money. I can not afford to do such things but wish those with lots of money luck in their endeavour.

It's almost certainly Steam for Mac OS X. They've released more than just this image, they've created several with Valve characters taking part in iconic Apple adverts.

My favourite is Alyx Vance and Dr. Breen in a version of the famous Apple 1984 ad.

http://www.joystiq.com/gallery/valve-mac...

This would negate the need for boot camp for me personally - assuming it comes with HL2 and add ons!

this news is quite quite fantastic

darth_paul: the mac community has been growing (bought one this year myself)

Yes, latest figures from USA show Macs at nearly 11% of market share by volume, however, as revenue share they basically p0wn the premium customers. Even as long ago as last summer, Apple has 91% of market for $1000+ PC in USA. Only 9% of PCs sold in USA that cost $1000 or more are dedicated Windows PC; by far the bulk of Windows PC sales are in the cheap, low margin, end of the market (which is why Apple have $40-billion in the bank, which is more than Dell's market cap).

These Mac owners are 'premium' customers, and probably quite likely to pay for games rather than pirate them -- is what I reckon Valve's logic is -- so it's a no brainer for Valve to port their code to OS X. Macs use the same Intel processors as Windows PCs, so a great deal of the code "just works" but it's the Source engine that will have to have been rewritten to use OpenGL rather than DirectX. Interestingly, this should help the PS3 version of Source too (PS3 uses OpenGL ES); but old Valve customers may remember than in Half-Life and that generation of games one could select 'DirectX' or 'OpenGL' rendering as an option.

The next update to Mac OS X, which is due any day, introduces OpenGL 3.0 to the OS ... maybe the timing of the Valve announcement is related to this?

@ octavedoctor

I disagree about the engine being too old. The Source engine, for me, has always been one of the better looking game engines. And it's constantly being updated. The Source Engine of Half Life 2 is very different to the Source Engine of left 4 Dead 2. Don't get me wrong, other recent games look great, but they have this glossy/fake/cartoony look about them.

RyBoy: I disagree about the engine being too old.

Me too, not only does it still look pretty good but it always scales to a range of hardware better than any other engine. Valve's monthly Steam hardware survey gives them market intelligence about which systems their games need to work on; and there's a lot more older PC hardware out there than many developers who require cutting edge hardware account for.

@ StooMonster

Got it one mate.

Microsoft should hand GFWL over to Valve, let the boys tinker with it, and then give it back to Microsoft.

"Hi Bill? Yeah it's Gabe. Here you go, this is how it should fucking work!"

I like this advertising campaign, it's clever!

L4D for iPad?

I can't believe there are still people posting crap about it being this or that when the links above make it abundently clear exactly what it is. Come on EG, keep up. Update this story with the other images like everyone else!

Well thats Gordan Freeman....idiots

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