Valve bringing Steam game store to Macs

After a slew of suspicious adverts appeared last week, Valve has confirmed its not-exactly-top-secret plot to bring its Steam game platform to Macs.

Starting from this April, several of Valve’s games will be available on the Apple platform, including Counter-Strike, the Half-Life series, Left 4 Dead 2, Portal and Team Fortress 2. Future games will make it as well, including Portal 2 later this year.

Neatly enough, with a feature called “Steam Play,” players will be able to buy a game on either Windows or Mac, and play it on the other – so if you’ve already bought one of Valve’s games on a Windows machine, you effectively own it on Mac. Say what you like about Valve, but they treat their customers pretty well. And there’s more Windows/Mac crossover:

“Furthermore, Mac and Windows players will be part of the same multiplayer universe, sharing servers, lobbies, and so forth. We fully support a heterogeneous mix of servers and clients. The first Mac Steam client will be the new generation currently in beta testing on Windows.”

Exciting times for Mac owners, and this is looking a little less true all the time:

[Via press release]