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  Bringing Steam to Mac will give gamers several cross-platform benefits, Newell said.
  
  
If players already own the PC versions of Valve games, they’ll get Mac versions at no extra charge through a feature called Steam Play.
  By using the Steam Cloud feature that the company introduced in 2008, players can save in-progress games online, then call up those saved games no matter which version they’re playing. If you’re playing Half-Life 2 on your home PC but then head out on the road with your MacBook, you can continue your game-in-progress.
  


And they’ll run natively, not through emulation.

Wow. This is huge.

Bringing Steam to Mac will give gamers several cross-platform benefits, Newell said.

  • If players already own the PC versions of Valve games, they’ll get Mac versions at no extra charge through a feature called Steam Play.

  • By using the Steam Cloud feature that the company introduced in 2008, players can save in-progress games online, then call up those saved games no matter which version they’re playing. If you’re playing Half-Life 2 on your home PC but then head out on the road with your MacBook, you can continue your game-in-progress.

And they’ll run natively, not through emulation.

Wow. This is huge.

Indie+Relief

Own a Mac or iPhone/iPod Touch? Splash out on one of the great indie apps on offer tomorrow, Wednesday 20th, and all proceeds will go towards helping the people of Haiti. Some brilliant software for a very worthwhile cause. I’ll be treating myself!

A big ‘hat’s off’ to Garrett for his work on this.

Update: $143,872 raised. Awesome.