Steam Client and Source Games Porting to OSX

Written by Tom Wickline

Wednesday, 10 March 2010 01:03

So the devil called me this afternoon and said they where having a snowstorm in hell.

In other news Valve announced that their revolutionary "content delivery service" known as "Steam" is being ported to OSX and will be available as early as April 2010. No really its true, straight from the horse's mouth. In addition the actual client and "Steam-works" being brought to Apple's operating system Valve also plans to port all of the Source Engine games, these include:

Half Life 2 Series
Counter Strike: Source
Team Fortress 2
Left 4 Dead Series
Day of Defeat: Source

All I have to say is: Microsoft has to be quaking in their boots. For some time Microsoft's Windows operating system has been the standard for gaming on the PC. With Valve making the push into OSX this means more than just trouble for Microsoft's operating system. It also means their famed DirectX API that is Windows only may be in jeopardy. I say this because as stated in Valve's official announcement in order to port their engine/games to OSX they will be reimplementing them in OpenGL. After the porting of these past released source games Valve plans to treat OSX as a "first tier" operating system. Meaning that all future releases of source games will occur simultaneously for OSX, Windows, and Xbox 360.

Not a fan of Valve's flag-ship gaming engine? Not a problem, take a peak at these other titles already for sale on Steam that have a native OSX client:

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
Dragon Age: Origins
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
Sid Meier’s Pirates
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

Phew! Who was it that said you couldn't game on a non-Windows operating system? Well truth be told thanks to wonderful software like CXGames some of us have been enjoying source games on the operating system of our choice for some time now. (Food for thought and maybe a future topic: What do you think this announcement is going to do to Codeweaver's bottom line?)

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great news

filipe 2010-03-10 00:52:48

that is great news for mac users, but for linux users? if those games will be ported to opengl code
it means that we will play that games in linux too? that would be awesome, is just for the games
that i have dual boot windows vista and ubuntu on my pc..

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Hopefully not like Blizzard

Jeff Hoogland 2010-03-10 14:07:58

While this makes perfect sense, I'm hoping Valve doesn't go down the Blizzard road - They have been
using OpenGL to port their games to OSX for years and no Linux client is in sight...

~Jeff

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Tom Wickline 2010-03-10 01:27:09

Their has been rumor of a native Steam client for Linux as well, I'm wondering if this will be
Valve's next big announcement?

Tom

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lll 2010-03-12 04:16:32

but it will be easier to run such game in wine under linux if it will be using opengl, right?

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filipe 2010-03-13 00:08:39

i hope so:-), if those games will be ported to opengl i will use ubuntu 100% :-)

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VHE

Alex 2010-03-16 08:59:58

I hope they will make Valve Hammer Editor work.

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Some of these games...

Jeff 2010-03-27 07:40:37

Some of those games came out during the classic Mac OS era, and the only OS X versions (if
available) are FOSS source ports. Also, some of those games are PowerPC only.

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Mike 2010-06-06 14:57:30

Defcon OS X, while it does exist, it isn't for sale on steam. You have Defcon listed as an available
game via steam, which it is currently not.

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