+Frank B. Subscriber² Posted March 3, 2010 Subscriber² Share Posted March 3, 2010 Valve Leakers Teaser Images for Upcoming Mac Game Announcement Last week, Valve Software generated some excitement among gaming fans who noticed Mac OS X menu components and other items in the most recent release of the company's Steam distribution platform for the PC. Combined with reports of Valve recruiting Mac engineers, the evidence suggested that Valve may be planning to make a move into the Mac platform. MacRumors today received a teaser image from Valve appearing to show Gordon Freeman, protagonist of Valve's Half-Life video game series, with an Apple logo on his chest. The image was accompanied with the following explanation: "In anticipation of an upcoming announcement from Valve." Valve has not offered any additional information on what we can expect from them or when more news might be available beyond "soon". Update: MacNN received a different teaser image showing robotic characters from other Valve games mimicking Apple's "Get a Mac" ads starring Justin Long and John Hodgman. The report suggests that we may see an announcement at next week's Game Developers Conference in San Francisco. The image here represent turrets from Team Fortress 2 and Portal: The presence of six dots along the bottom of the images, apparently for navigation reference, suggests that an additional four teaser images may have been sent to other outlets. Source: Mac Rumors Hell yes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Denis W. Veteran Posted March 3, 2010 Veteran Share Posted March 3, 2010 That second image is awesome. Badass turret versus cute turret. :p Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rajputwarrior Posted March 3, 2010 Share Posted March 3, 2010 well i am due to update my 3+ old macbook anytime soon... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sethos Posted March 3, 2010 Share Posted March 3, 2010 Very subtle :rofl: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RadishTM Veteran Posted March 3, 2010 Veteran Share Posted March 3, 2010 Could this be Gordon's updated HEV suit for HL2: EP3?! :p Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
strelok1911 Posted March 3, 2010 Share Posted March 3, 2010 Goodbye Windows. Now lets find a way to put Snow Leopard on my stupid P5QL-Pro Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chicane-UK Veteran Posted March 3, 2010 Veteran Share Posted March 3, 2010 Kudos to Valve. About time OSX got some backing by a major game studio (other than id) - the old argument about 'macs not being able to play games' has only ever been because no-one was developing for them! With some developer weight behind it, this could change. Microsoft should be a little worried by this IMHO. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+virtorio MVC Posted March 3, 2010 MVC Share Posted March 3, 2010 Love the turret image, and the idea of Steam on the Mac. Now how about some leaked images of Episode 3. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mathachew Veteran Posted March 3, 2010 Veteran Share Posted March 3, 2010 More images: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
well... Posted March 3, 2010 Share Posted March 3, 2010 TF2 on my mac ?! please? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Denis W. Veteran Posted March 3, 2010 Veteran Share Posted March 3, 2010 Oh my God :rofl: Look at that Heavy :rofl: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
D!ABOL!C Posted March 3, 2010 Share Posted March 3, 2010 More images: "Sandvich and me going to beat your ass!" Now this would definitely be sweet to play on my Macbook. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
That Guy Veteran Posted March 3, 2010 Veteran Share Posted March 3, 2010 If this is a step towards open, multi-platform graphics APIs to get away from DirectX (or open it up), then I think it's a good move. Mamoun and Shadrack 2 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rudy Posted March 3, 2010 Share Posted March 3, 2010 Good stuff, more gaming for OSX is a great thing (I don't really play games but it's good for OSX) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Minifig Posted March 3, 2010 Share Posted March 3, 2010 Shouldn't the Heavy be eating an Apple? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SkyyPunk Veteran Posted March 3, 2010 Veteran Share Posted March 3, 2010 Turret on right is smooth and clean looking, but stuck with no upgrades...the one on left is rougher and sturdier looking...but can upgrade to two turrets and rocket launcher <.< Nicholas-c, dead.cell, Chasethebase and 2 others 5 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geoffrey B. Veteran Posted March 3, 2010 Veteran Share Posted March 3, 2010 im a pc rip of is classic i love it, also i cannot wait to see what is going on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KeR Posted March 3, 2010 Share Posted March 3, 2010 YES! Finally, I have a Steam account with a bunch of games, but have not been able to play due to the fact that I got ride of my PC and only have a Mac at home. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Denis W. Veteran Posted March 3, 2010 Veteran Share Posted March 3, 2010 Turret on right is smooth and clean looking, but stuck with no upgrades...the one on left is rougher and studier looking...but can upgrade to two turrets and rocket launcher <.< Hah, never thought of that... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
XerXis Posted March 3, 2010 Share Posted March 3, 2010 Kudos to Valve. About time OSX got some backing by a major game studio (other than id) - the old argument about 'macs not being able to play games' has only ever been because no-one was developing for them! With some developer weight behind it, this could change. Microsoft should be a little worried by this IMHO. Only if openGL gets up to par with directX, both in terms of coding/performance and nvidia/ati/intel support. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Frank B. Subscriber² Posted March 3, 2010 Author Subscriber² Share Posted March 3, 2010 I loved the following quote from the Gizmodo article about this topic: If they really are teasing Mac releases of those franchises, that's saying something huge about Valve, and their decision to adopt Mac as a full-fledged platform. I mean, Valve hasn't even touched the PS3, and now they're developing for Mac? Oh burn. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carmatic Posted March 3, 2010 Share Posted March 3, 2010 i dont get this one?? that means no l4d 2 yet? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elliott Posted March 3, 2010 Share Posted March 3, 2010 That second image is awesome. Badass turret versus cute turret. :p Hey, those cute turrets ripped me up a few times in Portal. :laugh: Anyway, this is awesome news! I can't wait. :D i dont get this one?? It's in reference to this: That character is one from Left 4 Dead. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sundayx Veteran Posted March 3, 2010 Veteran Share Posted March 3, 2010 Level 1 turret ftl. "Put a dispenser here!" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Napalm Frog Posted March 3, 2010 Share Posted March 3, 2010 carmatic: Says "Hate Different" instead of think different... Zombies? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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