Tagged: valve

Steam Mac OS X pretty much confirmed short of a formal announcement

A play on the first Macintosh ad, LOL I liked this one the most.

Gordon with an Apple logo on his chest? I didn’t like this one as much, felt like G. Freeman was selling out.

If this ad was true, Justin Long would be way smarter than John Hodges.

I wouldn’t substitute an iPod for a sandwich, HW Guy should have gotten an iPod touch.

But Think Different ads had so much more star power!

Remember? Superbowl 1984, Ridley Scott, huge budget.

What do you think? Pretty concrete evidence if you ask me.

Steam UI beta looks great

The new look of Steam is great! I like the fact that Valve redesigned their aging interface. I also applaud the fact that they abandoned Internet Explorer as the rendering engine and adopted WebKit. If the rumors are true, I expect a Mac OS X version of Steam before the summer!

This is epic!

Holy cow Electronic Arts, the largest video game publisher in the world, has embraced Steam!

Valve scored big to become the defacto standard in PC game distribution. Most of the publishers were available through Steam before, but EA has always resisted. The takeover is now complete. Valve will begin their world domination any day now.

The list of publishers now available through Steam:

  • 2k Games
  • Activision
  • Atari
  • Codemasters
  • Eidos
  • Electronic Arts
  • Epic
  • Rockstar
  • Sega
  • THQ
  • Ubisoft

There are more, but these are the guys that are likely to publish blockbusters. I think it’s just a matter of time before Blizzard also signs up. Its parent Activision is already onboard so the hardest hurdles have been crossed.

Now the publishers will need to embrace Steam fully and make sure all the new releases and old will become available. Steam should also start to support retroactive availability once a certain title is available on it. I’d love to be able to download all of my titles, new and old, through Steam when the need arise.

For once, I’m proud of DRM.

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