Portal Update Released

Valve has updated Portal.   The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The major changes include: Fixed screen \”fuzziness\” caused by color correction operation Fixed text not rendering in game if font Tahoma was disabled Fixed startup video not playing fullscreen Added optional -snd_openal command line parameter to force the […]

Previous PC Owners of Civilization IV Games on Steam Get Mac Version

Yesterday when Value Software shipped Steam on the Mac, previous owners of the PC Steam version of Sid Meier\’s Civilization IV, Civilization IV: Beyond the Sword, Civilization IV: Warlords, Sid Meier\’s Civilization IV: Colonization, or Sid Meier\’s Civilization IV: The Complete Edition did not have access to their games when logging in on a Mac. […]

Steam For Mac Is Live, Includes Free Copy of Portal

Steam for the Mac is now live…. There\’s some hickups, mainly the servers seem to be overloaded at this point…  But a long list of currently available games is also below, with Valve promising new games \”highlighting an area of Steam functionality\” every Wednesday. The following games are all Steam Play releases, meaning that you […]

Valve details Steam for Mac launch, includes Torchlight

Are you ready for the 12th?  I am… Valve has decided to detail the launch just prior to its release, including info on the first games to be available at launch. Folks playing the beta have already gotten to spend some time with Portal and Team Fortress 2 on the Mac. Now it\’s been confirmed […]

Fallout 1 & 2 soundtracks remastered, free to download

Fallout 1 and 2 composer Mark Morgan has a little side project that he calls his \’Vault Archives.\’ His goal was to remaster all the songs he composed for the Fallout series. Now it seems that he\’s done with his project, and he was kind enough to share the results with everyone. The OSTs for […]

Space Paranoids

Space Paranoids is the game Kevin Flynn made in the movie Tron. And for quite some time now, the viral marketing has been teasing the game out here and there. Up to now, it\’s only been playable at the Flynn\’s Arcade event held at San Diego Comic-Con last year. But yesterday, the good people at the […]

Supreme Commander 2 coming to the Mac

After delivering ports of two The Chronicles of Riddick game to the Mac, Virtual Programming plans to bring Supreme Commander 2 to the platform later this year. I loved Total Annihilation, and Supreme Commander is considered by some to be the unofficial spiritual sequel….  So I am looking forward to see this on the Macintosh….