http://www.neowin.net/news/steam-coming-...g-required

Looks like Valve will be shipping a native OSX version of steam next month, with the big news being that their entire range of games will be ported, including Half-Life, Left 4 Dead 2, Counter-Strike, Team Fortress 2, and, of course, Portal.

The games themselves will run natively on the OSX platform, with the new Steam client using WebKit to display its data; in addition, Valve's Source engine is utilizing OpenGL, meaning that games will play just as nicely on the Mac as they do the PC.

Along with the announcement today, Valve introduced a new feature for Steam, namely Steam Play. Steam Play simply means that any titles that have been purchased in the past via Steam will also be allowed to run on the Mac, without having to buy a game a second time, or pay any conversion fees.

Steam Cloud will be included with the Mac client, which will now synchronize game save files between the two platforms, meaning that a person can play a game on a PC, then switch over to a Mac and continue playing exactly where they left off. In addition to that, multiplayer games will work cross-platform, allowing Mac to play against PC and vice versa.



And with Blizzard also releasing all its games with an OSX version, Starcraft 2, WoW, War3 - Gaming on a MAC doesn't look like that much of a problem anymore...