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 […]

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 […]

First look at Steam for Mac

I’m sooo envious…. The Macgamer.com has gotten a steam mac beta key… Ooo, just look at that lovely icon! Fancy a peek at the other sexy bits for Steam for Mac? Just a few minutes ago I received an email with details on how to access the Steam for Mac beta. Being a slave to the […]

Steam News – Coming to the Mac

Leading Gaming Service Expands to Mac Platform Valve announced today it will bring Steam, Valve's gaming service, and Source, Valve's gaming engine, to the Mac. Steam and Valve's library of games including Left 4 Dead 2, Team Fortress 2, Counter-Strike, Portal, and the Half-Life series will be available in April. “As we transition from entertainment […]

Portal 2 Announced….

Valve, creators of best-selling game franchises (such as Left 4 Dead, Counter-Strike and Half-Life) and leading technologies (such as Steam and Source), today announced Portal 2 for shipment this coming holiday season. Portal 2 is the sequel to 2007’s Portal, which won 70 industry achievement awards. Maybe it’s just me?  But “Coming Holiday season” makes […]

Schlock Mercenary, the Online Comic Space Opera

Oh, this is nice….  I nearly didn’t get it…. There’s a nice in-joke in Sunday’s Schlock Mercenary comic…  Namely the last panel’s quotes: Now these points of data make a beautiful line. And we’re out of Beta! We’re releasing on time! Anyone recognize it?  If so, very good.  All I will say is that I […]