Are you looking to go completely digital in your gaming world? Steam has you covered. Along with being able to download your favorite PC and Mac games, you can now get Prima Strategy Guides right there on your computer. No more paper books for you.
The initial launch guides include Dragon Age: Origins (and Awakening), Just Cause 2, Left 4 Dead 2, Splinter Cell: Conviction and Battlefield: Bad Company 2. To celebrate, each of those games is 50% off right now bringing the price to $9.99, so if you’ve been waiting to pick any of them up, now’s your chance. None of them work on the Mac, unfortunately, so I’m still out in the cold on the computer front.
How many of you out there still use strategy guides anyway? It’s been a long time since I’ve picked one up (I believe it was GTA San Andreas). If I get stuck now, I just use the good old Google machine, so I’m not sure that even going digital would give me a reason to pick up a Prima guide. Let us know if you’ll be buying any of these in the comments.
In case you haven’t started playing the StarCraft II Beta yet and your invite is just sitting there collecting dust, you might want to get on the ball. Blizzard reminded the world that the servers will be shut down May 31st, so you have slightly more than 10 days to get your fill of the epic multiplayer action before it goes dark for a short while.
I would have liked to play more of the Beta before now, but my PC gaming time has been very limited. After a long download, the beta is fully installed on my MacBook Pro and I have a feeling I’ll be shredding faces with Protoss later this week.
With the game releasing July 27th and the Beta having run for quite some time, I think Blizzard is in perfect shape with their balancing and tweaks for launch. So the real question is – how many of you are getting the super special collector’s edition?
I’m sure a lot of you are happy that Portal is free until May 24th on Steam. But why? Sure, you’d think it had to do with Steam being released for Mac, but actually, the machines had their own ideas. Have I said yet that I love Valve?
With Steam now available for Mac users and more of us hopping online for PC/Mac gaming, we figured it’s time to all join together for our gaming fun. What better place than the Loot Ninja group on Steam?
After leaving my MacBook Pro on all night, I finally got Portal to finish downloading. The servers have been slammed since the Mac client was released, but now I’m ready to rock out with my… well, you know. I’m also picking up Torchlight this weekend, especially since it’s on sale.
Hopefully next Wednesday will bring more multiplayer gaming to the Mac, possibly in the form of Counter Strike: Source, Left 4 Dead 2, and Team Fortress 2. Why do I have a sinking suspicion that my bank account is going to hate me in the near future? Either way, make sure you join the Loot Ninja group so we can all have a good time together.
I’m not going to sugar coat this one – I’m extremely excited for this news. Yes, Steam for Mac is coming tomorrow. We knew that. What we didn’t know is that Torchlight will be available tomorrow through Steam for Mac as well. Hot damn!
Torchlight, in case you live in a console-only bubble, is a Diablo-style single player dungeon crawler from the same people that crafted the original Diablo. It’s not expensive and 100% awesome. If you’re a Mac user grabbing the Steam download tomorrow, this needs to be your first game purchase.
New releases are scheduled every Wednesday on Steam for Mac with Steamworks and the Source Engine being integrated from the start. I’m really hoping we see a lot of solid PC games make their way over to Mac sooner than later with eventual day-and-date releases on all platforms. I heart you, Valve.
Mark May 12th on your calendars as the day productivity officially dies at Loot Ninja HQ. Being a Mac user, I haven’t had too much access to PC gaming. In a couple weeks, with Steam officially being released, I will stop doing work and play Half Life 2 and Portal all day long. Between that and StarCraft II Beta being out now for Mac, I’m not getting anything done.
I’m looking forward to meeting with Valve at E3 to hear about their plans for Steam on Mac and any assistance they’ll be providing developers/publishers for porting their games to multiple platforms. Here’s to hoping for day-and-date releases for most PC games on the Mac.
Praise Jebus! StarCraft II Beta is making its way to the Mac next week. I’ve been dancing around my house knowing I won’t have to find a mouse and keyboard and boot up a different machine to play the beta now.
If you’ve been playing already, you’ll also be happy to know the map editor is coming later this week, so you’ll be able to rock out some of you own map concoctions or weird stuff made by the community.
Is there any doubt that productivity is going to suffer at Loot Ninja HQ once the Mac Beta is released? I think not.
Blizzard, I love you. You’re the one company that makes me feel less like a second class gaming citizen on my Mac. I’ve enjoyed StarCraft, Diablo II and World of Warcraft for years on my MacBook Pro, but I’m safe over here in Apple land for StarCraft II as well.
A member of the Blizzard Community Team posted on the Battle.net forums that the installation DVD for StarCraft II will include both the Mac and PC versions. All praise be to Blizzard.
Now the only questions is when we’ll be able to buy StarCraft II. My guess is December 1st, 2012 so that we can all enjoy it for a few days before the world ends.
If you haven’t picked up Dragon Age: Origins yet on your Xbox 360 or PC, you might be interested to know the game is shipping for Mac on December 21st. You read that right Mac gamers; you’re not the red-headed step child you once thought. Well, not as much.
You can preorder the Standard and Digital Deluxe versions now, with the Deluxe edition netting you a collection of wallpapers, in-game bonus items, the game’s soundtrack and the Warden’s Keep additional content. In addition, both versions will ship with The Stone Prisoner and the Blood Dragon Armor. That’s some solid content for us Mac users.
From what I’ve played, Dragon Age: Origins works better with a mouse and keyboard, so if you have a Mac and have been holding out, here’s your chance. Get some.
Gaming for Mac users is getting better and better. Sure, we’re red headed step children in the gaming world, but at least we’re getting recognized. On Tuesday, things will get even better as Quake Live will be available for both Mac and Linux.
The announcement was made by id President Todd Hollenshead during the QuakeCon 2009 press conference and attendees will be able to play the new versions on the show floor. The rest of us will just have to wait a few days for the change to play the browser-based shooter. Free online gaming FTW.
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