It seems that one of the services that’s truly revolutionised the way people play games on PCs, Valve’s Steam, is soon to be brought to Apple’s Mac OS.
These teaser images have been sent to various videogame news sites 
This move will likely be welcome news to any Mac-based gamers, who will by now have likely grown either very-used-to or entirely-sick-and-tired-of restarting their machines to boot into Windows so that they might play a game. Indeed, this is a move that had been hinted at in the past, though the last time people from inside Valve were asked about the lack of availability of the company’s games on Mac it said that the demand wasn’t there to make it a very sensible mood.
Now though, with Mac OS’s userbase growing, it seems that the folks behind Steam have decided that it’s time the digital distribution service made its presence felt on the platform. While we have no indication for now of just when we can expect to see Steam for Mac make an appearance, Valve has been teasing its Mac-based audience with some fairly interesting promotional imagery.
For now, the big question on just about everyone with an interest’s minds is, “What games from Steam’s massive back catalogue will run on Mac OS?” For now there’s no indication, but it would seem like a fairly safe bet that those Valve games that already run on Apple machines through services like Crossover Games (Half-Life 2, Team Fortress 2, Counter-Strike, Counter-Strike Source, Day of Defeat Source, etc.) will most likely be among the first that Valve makes available on to its Mac users.
We’ll also be curious to see if EA’s stock of Mac games from the last year or two make it in, given that they are, obviously enough, not available on Steam at the moment, it’d be interesting to see if they make the cut.
Regardless, we’ll likely find out soon enough just when Mac users can expect to see a Steam.dmg popping up, but for now you’ll just have to sit tight and cross those fingers, because it could well be delivered in the dreaded… Valve-time.
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