Steam for Mac Adds Half-Life 2, EVE Online

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The Half-Life 2 Collection and EVE Online: Tyrannis represent this week's latest additions to the Steam for Mac digital distribution platform, operator Valve has announced.

The Mac editions of Valve's celebrated shooters Half-Life 2, Half-Life 2: Episode One and Half-Life 2: Episode Two are now available through the digital distribution platform, while Tyrannis--the lastest update to CCP's space-faring MMO EVE Online--will hit "later today" and marks "Steam's first day-and-date release for the Mac and PC."

To commemorate the occasion, Steam has discounted all three Half-Life 2 titles by 30%, making Half-Life 2 $6.99, Episode One $5.59 and Episode Two $5.59.

Those that already own any of the Half-Life 2 titles via Steam PC will be able to download the respective Mac edition for free, thanks to a feature called SteamPlay that enables "customers to purchase a game once and play it on all Steam supported platforms."

In addition, all three Half-Life 2 titles support Steam Cloud--"allowing players to save their game progress on one computer, then seamlessly resume from that save point on another computer (Mac or PC)"--while Half Life 2 and Half-Life 2: Episode One have been updated on both PC and Mac to include new Steam Achievements.

Chris Faylor was previously a games journalist creating content at Shacknews.

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    May 26, 2010 11:44 AM

    I hope there's a demo so I can test whether I get acceptable frame rates on my new MBP with the Nvidia 320M

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      May 26, 2010 12:35 PM

      Do you already own Half Life 2 for PC?

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      May 26, 2010 12:46 PM

      Is this a joke post? Of course it will have acceptable frame rates.

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        May 26, 2010 1:03 PM

        Maybe he's referring to EVE?

        But yeah pretty much anything can play HL2. My Mac Mini can play Portal at 1680x1050 maxed out and still get 15fps.

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        May 26, 2010 1:24 PM

        Also more to the point, perhaps he's one of our new Macintosh gaming friends.

        So to answer his question, there probably won't be a demo. However, the original game was released in 2004 so the hardware bar was pretty low compared to what you have now, so you should be good. Also, the games are cheap so snatch them up now.

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          May 26, 2010 1:26 PM

          Or wait for the mac release of the Orange Box?

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            May 26, 2010 1:44 PM

            Or maybe there's a benevolent Shacker out there who still somehow hasn't gifted their Orange Box copies of HL2 and HL2:EP1

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      May 26, 2010 1:28 PM

      Portal wasn't very good on Mac on my MBP with the 9400M which was surprising considering I played LOTRO at 1440x900 with very high textures and medium settings otherwise with 2xAA and it played at 40fps.

      Portal looks more like 30fps with 2xAA...HL2 I'm hoping will be playable. A 320M is better than a 9400M though by far.

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        May 26, 2010 1:28 PM

        How long ago did you try Portal on mac? A buddy of mine says a recent patch doubled his framerate...

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