First , inquisitive gamers found “ evidence ” that Valve might land Steam , its pop Windows game shop , to the Mac , and it was good . Then , Valve seeded some provocative teaser images to Mac press which all but confirmed 2010 to be the year of Mac gaming , and it was great . Now , another firearm of the puzzle may be falling into place , show that one of Valve’snewgames may be on its style to our favorite weapons platform as well .
Scans from an clause inGameInformer ’s forthcoming April 2010 exit , posted inthis PAL Gaming connection meeting place train of thought , list the Mac as a platform forPortal 2(pictured above ) . Valve did remark the originalPortal(released in 2007 ) in those aforelinked vexer images , along with a couple other back catalogue games likeLeft 4 Dead(2008 ) andHalf Life 2(2007 ) , butPortal 2is a subsequence due out later this yr . If true , it means Valve could be making an effort to unloose at least some of its current and upcoming games on Windows and Mac simultaneously .
This is more great news for aim Mac gamers hoping for simultaneous releases of major games . We ’re still awaiting official news program from Valve , and there ’s still no word on how many third - party publishers ( if any ) are on board for the bruit Mac debut of the company’sSteammarketplace . However , the annualGame Developers Conference(GDC ) kicks off at Moscone Center in San Francisco tomorrow . If Valve is going to release all this pent - up pressing anytime soon , you may count that it ’ll bechance at GDC this week .
