Over the course of the last duo months , Valve teased and later confirm that it ’s bringing Steam , its wildly successful game computer memory and community , to the Mac . In anannouncementconfirming Wednesday , May 12 as the day Steam for Mac drops the beta badge , Valve also add a surprise to the handful of titles that will be available on sidereal day one .
As late as Monday , when we bring out ourfirst look at Steam for Mac , we knew that Runic Games’sDiablo - esqueTorchlightwas coming to Steam for Mac , but we only had a release date of “ when it ’s done . ” In Valve ’s check Tuesday , it revealed thatTorchlightwould be quick as a launch championship , but did not say much more . Valve will not share , for example , what time Steam for Mac go live on Wednesday ; 12:01am PT ? 5 pm ? Guess you ’ll just have to wait up all night refreshingSteamPowered.comto find out .
Macworldcontacted Runic ’s Wonder Russell to get details ofTorchlight’sarrival with Steam for Mac . Russell toldMacworldthatTorchlightwill be the same $ 20 that it does for microcomputer gamers , and it is compatible with Steam Play , Valve ’s raw licensing arrangement that lets customers buy a game once and play on both Mac and PC ( as long as you download and instal the client on both OSes , of course ) . If you already boughtTorchlighton your Boot Camp Windows partition or back PC , you wo n’t have to make up again to play it on your Mac .
So far , Valve has confirmedPortalandTorchlightto be “ among the initial titles usable ” when Steam arrives on Wednesday . The Mac subroutine library of games should expand chop-chop , though , as Valve also say that “ additional collections of Mac titles ” will become usable on subsequent Midweek .
Torchlightmay not be a blockbuster biz likeHalf liveliness 2 , but it ’s gained critical and pop plaudit for letting gamers strike their donjon - crawling itch ( while waiting for Blizzard to shipDiablo 3,anyway).Perhaps more significantly , the addition of a third - party ( read : non - Valve ) title of respect for Steam ’s launch on the Mac is good news . Let ’s hope that Steam picks up , erm , steam , on the Mac among more game developers , orotund and pocket-size .
