2 Big announcements recently from Valve. Exciting news for pretty much any Valve fan or MAC enthusiast. I only heard of them yesterday from Valve. (What is up with all you other bloggers? O.K. I am a bit behind in my reading, perhaps you are all way ahead of me.)
On March 5th Portal 2 was announced. <Warning the rest of this paragraph contains some hints, but not quite spoilers> I have to admit by this time I was getting suspicious that something was afoot as there have been a couple of surprise updates to the original portal with mysterious descriptions. Update1 did something to the radio in the game, and update2 changed the ending of the game a little. Then in the announcement on the 5th it was formatted a bit oddly… These are all a part of a puzzle that I will have to keep my eyes on to the progress of the solving. I did not catch on to this puzzle until the Portal 2 announcement, but it looks like fun!
Yesterday the announcement was made that Steam Games will be available on the Mac later this year! Games creates with the Source engine will also them be available on the Mac as well. Other developers will also have the option to make their games available on both platforms. This means that all you Mac people out there will be able to play the Half-Life series on your Mac without clumsy virtualization or emulation setups! Left for Dead, Team Fortress 2, and Portal will also be available on the Mac. In fact Portal 2 will be Valve’s first simultaneous release for Mac and Windows.
If you have purchased the game already on windows you could then also play it on the Mac. If you play on the PC and then move to a MAC you could also pick up the game where you left off. (Of course it would work the other way around too.)
To me these announcements are quite exciting and I will be keeping and eye on how these progress. I may get a little slow in updating my blog again later this year 