Rumor: Is Steam Coming to Mac?

[Osiris]

Rumor: Is Steam Coming to Mac?

Neowin takes a look at the rumor of a release of Valve's Steam client for the Mac. Apparently, there is some OSX stuff buried in a recent PC release for Steam. Yay or who cares?

Steam recently moved from Microsoft's Trident web rendering engine to Webkit, an engine used by Apple's Safari and Google Chrome. Valve's Chris Green has also posted on his Linkedin profile that Valve are interested in Mac and Linux engineers. Historically Valve have given very little support to the Mac, but the debut of Steam on the platform could signal a change of attitude.
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[Jayce]

I knew if anybody would venture to OSX or Linux gaming, it'd be Steam. I'm very happy to see this, and I hope they follow through with it.

 

[Osiris]

Valve Officially Announces Steam And Game Library Coming To Mac In April

For those of you who don't know, Steam is one of the most popular gaming distributors for Windows PC's. Gamers will be familiar with the program which lets you buy and download games directly from the program. There have been some hints and rumors floating around the web recently hinting at a release for the Mac, but [...]

 

[Jayce]

I wonder how easy to port and how soon us Linux users could see something like this?