Several days ago, we reported that Portal is now available on Steam for free, in celebration of Valve’s successful port of the game (as well as many others) to the Mac platform.
Turns out that news travels fast on this new, exciting platform called the “internet”, and since the game was released for free, it has been downloaded over 1.5 million times.
Currently, Valve hasn’t released any data as to how many of these are Mac or PC users, but they did announce that about 11% of Steam purchases since Steam for Mac was released have been by Mac users.
This is huge news for Mac gamers. Especially considering the fact that “Mac gamers” pretty much didn’t exist until a week ago.
Supposedly, Portal runs just as fine on a Mac as it does on a PC. In fact, the PC version crashes about 500% more frequently than the Mac version. I haven’t been able to test this (my Mac at work won’t run the game at all, but that’s probably because I’m using a low-end machine), but the stability of the Mac OS X platform really pays off for gaming, it would seem. It really is a wonder why nobody would ever develop for the Mac platform earlier.
Remember, Portal is still free for both Mac and PC users until May 24th. Even if you don’t have a computer capable of playing Portal, at the very least add it to your Steam account so that it’ll be there when you get an upgrade!
Thank you for participating in this Gaming Vault computer-aided enrichment news post.
I finally understand what the cake is a lie means! Yay!
Works great on my 13 inch MacBook Pro.
the Mac version also runs 500% slower than the PC version, but wait that unsubstantiated claim is just as real as the one in the article
@Gladiator, I think it was intended as a joke.
@Gladiator, The only good thing windoze people had was games now mac came & took that from them too. Shame lol :)
@Mike, Bet you aint got Minesweeper.
They didn’t take it away, they just finally joined the party
@Gladiator, You mean stole the party :)
@Mike, haha, ok ok they gatecrashed the party :)
@Gladiator, Apple is like gravity, everything gets pulled towards them :) Opposite for Microsucks :)
Strange how gravity and apple are closed closed source
Valve porting Steam and the Source engine to Linux and Mac is HUGE for both of those OS’ respective gaming catalogues.
If this pans out well it could mean Linux and Mac would finally become a viable gaming platform, which is great for those OS’, and even better for the users.
Can’t wait to download some Portal for Ubuntu.
@Norlick,
Ubuntu?
Sorry, I’m not into Pokémon.