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Valve to give away some Mac specific code to developers

Valve has announced plans of increasing the amount of Mac games on Steam by giving away some of its Mac-specific code to developers. It’s not much they’re giving away though, and for developers to use it, they must sign up to Steamworks and offer the game on Steam, of course.

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NPD: retail game sales and digital distribution are head to head

According to NPD, the king of the sales trackers in the US, some 21.3 million full PC games were sold on digital distribution platforms like Steam, while 23.5 million PC games were sold at retail. Which means the two are almost head to head, and eventually, as everyone predicts, digital sales will surpass physical retail sales.

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Borderlands is only $10 on Steam today

Steam is in full swing with its summer sale, and today, a new batch of games are on discount, one of which is Borderlands. The price of which is slashed by 66%, making it a cool $10.19 impulse buy.

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Steam has a huge Summer sale

Steam is known for its bi-annual sales, this time, a Summer sales is going on until July 4. And there’s a lot of games that are discounted, including bundles from 2K games, Valve and THQ. More at the Steam store.

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Every Sega game bundled on Steam for $90

If you ever wanted to buy every Sega game, or just perhaps a few of the latest, like Alien Vs. Predator, you can now pick up the Sega mega-pack on Steam for $90. The bundle includes Alien Vs. Predator, Empire: Total War + all expansions, The Club, Stormrise, and a lot more. Check out the bundle on Steam here.

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Steam on Mac launches tomorrow

After a successful beta period, Valve has announced that it plans to roll out Steam on the Mac tomorrow. The two launch titles so far only include Portal and Torchlight — both excellent games — and Valve’s other heavy hitters are to be released on the Mac as well, including Team Fortress 2 and Counter-Strike Source.

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Rockstar Collection 50% off on Steam

If you’ve been living under a rock for 95% of your life and haven’t had a chance to give classic Rock Star titles like Grand Theft Auto: Vice City a go, you’re in luck. Valve, has just announced that they will be holding a 50% off promotion on the Rock Star Collection, if you’re willing to purchase it though Steam, that is.

Anyways, you’ll be able to get 13 Rockstar titles for just $42.49. Yes, this includes Grand Theft Auto IV. Go get it.

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Serious Sam HD: The Second Encounter coming to Xbox Live Arcade and Steam

Back in the beginning of February we notified you of a delay for Serious Sam HD: The Second Encounter. At that point, we weren’t sure what exactly the release date had been changed to but now we know that it will hit but the PC on April 28th. It’s also slated to hit the Xbox Live Arcade at some point but there’s been no mention of a release date.

If you didn’t know, this is a high definition remake of the game that was released back in February of 2002 by the same name, minus the HD.

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Free Modern Warfare 2 weekend on Steam

If you’re one of the few PC FPS players who have yet to try out Modern Warfare 2 you’ll be glad to hear that Steam is offering the multiplayer component of the game free of charge for an entire weekend. The promotion will begin this Thursday, April 8th and you can pre-load the content right now.

Of course Modern Warfare 2 still doesn’t have dedicated servers which may be a deal breaker for a lot of PC gamers.

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Left 4 Dead 2 50% off on Steam

If you haven’t picked up Left 4 Dead 2 yet, what have you been doing with your life? No seriously though, now’s a great time to pick up the game as Valve has just announced that they will be giving it away for 50% off through Steam until this Thursday.

For those who don’t know, that means you’ll be able to get Left 4 Dead 2 for only $25. Not bad for a relatively new game.

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Valve says Mac steam launch to be service’s biggest event in history

It was announced not too long ago that Valve would finally be bringing the Steam digital distribution platform to Macs everywhere. If you were a bit doubtful of the transition get this: Valve is actually saying this will be “the biggest event in Steam’s history since the service was first launched”.

I can’t say I disagree with them as Steam’s presence on OS X destroys the notion that Macs are terrible for gaming. Mac users everywhere will soon have the ability to play iconic games such as Half-Life 2, Team Fortress 2 and Portal that PC users have been enjoying for some time. I, for one, know that I’ll be firing up CS: S from time to time on my MacBook when it’s made available.

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Battle.net to allow third parties?

Currently, it’s known that Blizzard plans to use its Battle.net service for their own in-house games like Diablo III and StarCraft 2. However, Blizzard’s Rob Pardo recently went on record as saying they might open it up to third parties.

“It’s something that we’ve definitely always talked about. The problem for us is that it takes a lot of work from our other teams. Every time we have the discussion, we try to figure out what’s going to happen if let’s say a Blizzard game was coming out and a third party game was coming out at the same time. Could we be agnostic in that way? Could we offer the same level of support that we offer our games to third parties? We just never know. It just seems like a big job for us.”

If Blizzard were to do this, Valve’s Steam digital distribution platform would finally be getting a run for its money. I wonder which studios would take sides.

via cvg

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Steam has a Bad Company 2 4-pack deal

Just in case you haven’t picked up Battlefield: Bad Company 2 yet Steam has a great deal for you — 4 copies of the game for $149.99. Now depending on how you look at it you’re either getting one of the copies for free or all 4 copies for around $37.

Even better is the fact that Steam is offering the Limited Edition version that gives you 6 extra online unlockables from the get go.

Check out the deal here.

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Valve confirms Steam, Source for Mac

It seems that Portal 2 isn’t the only Valve game coming to the Mac platform — If you remember, we told you not too long that rumors had begun making their rounds about a version of Steam for Mac’s OS X. Now, Valve has officially confirmed that not only will a Mac version of Steam will be hitting but also a Mac version of the Source engine. If you don’t know, the Source engine is Valve’s engine behind popular games such as Left 4 Dead 2, Half-Life 2 and more.

This means that Mac gamers will finally be able to play the above mentioned games in addition to Team Fortress 2 and Counter-Strike. Even better, Valve has made it so that when developers make a game for the PC, code will be automatically generated that will allow the same game to work for OS X.

Looks like the Mac will not be a gamers nightmare any more.

via joystiq

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Steam definitely coming to Mac

Late last month we let you know that a Mac OS X version of Steam was most likely on its way thanks to some leaked imagery. Now, Valve has released a whole slew of Apple-related advertisements all but confirming that the digital distribution platform is in fact making its way to the Mac.

Make note, next week is GDC so chances are we’ll hear an announcement from Valve about Steam for OS X then.

via destructoid

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