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On subsequent Wednesdays, additional collections of Mac titles will become available, each designed to highlight specific functionalities of Steam on the Mac.

The first collection of Mac titles will demonstrate "Steam Play," which allows customers to purchase a game once and play it on all Steam supported platforms.

Portal, in addition to supporting Steam Play, will be the first of Valve's Source engine based games available on the Mac. Native OS/X support for the Source engine is also available immediately to licensees for use in their games.

Among the initial titles available on Wednesday will be Runic Games' critically acclaimed Torchlight. "We're very excited to be bringing Torchlight to the Mac," said Max Schaefer, co-founder of Runic Games. "Having Steam for the Mac solves so many problems for us as a developer. We look forward to our future games coming out on the Mac as well."

In addition to bringing the online functionality of Steam to the Mac, Valve will also make its Steamworks suite of publishing and development tools available on the Mac platform. These include product key authentication, copy protection, auto-updating, social networking, matchmaking, anti-cheat technology, and more. The features and services available in Steamworks are offered free of charge and may be used for both electronic and tangible versions of games.

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I'm excited about this even though I don't do much gaming on my Mac. I'm looking forward to playing Torchlight, which is one of the release titles along with Portal and FM2010.

Congratz Mac! Welcome to 5 years ago!

I love that the games I own from Steam (Torchlight and Civ IV) are both Mac titles available now, and they aren't making me pay again for them on my Mac! So now I can play them without needing bootcamp!

What's Portal?

What's Portal?

It's a pretty cool game. You sort of just have to play it. It's free right now so why not?

What's Portal?

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Quick question for Mac gamers: Steam has Civ IV for dirt cheap this week. My soon-to-be-three year old Macbook has these specs:

2.2 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo
4 GB RAM
Intel GMA X3100 graphics card

Can I play the game at a tolerable level on my Mac? I ran the demo without problems but I'm worried about the lack of a dedicated graphics card.

i had problems with certain graphics but nothing that affected playability from what i remember

but i didnt have the steam version

Granted my PC is new, but even with a integrated card, I've had no real issues running stuff and even if I know my card can't handle Ultra Mode on City of Heroes, it does nicely at how high I do set it. The Civ series was never really about high end graphics anyway. If the Mac version is the same cost as the PC, I say go for it since it's so cheap. Even if it doesn't work right now, it's there for when you get Mac that can run it.