Mac Users Rejoice – Steam Public Beta Released with Free Portal

Steam, Valve’s online gaming service, is now available for Macintosh computers. The public beta was released today and Valve is considering the Mac a tier 1 Platform. Tier 1 means that Valve games (Half-Life, Left 4 Dead etc.) will be released on both platforms (PC and Mac) simultaneously. Currently Valve only has Portal and Team Fortress available from their catalogue. There are only a few Mac titles available for the beta but this should change quickly.

The big news for gamers is that until May 24th, Valve’s game Portal is free for both PC and Mac! So grab a copy of Steam for Mac and make your first game this excellent puzzle game from Valve.

Below is a list of games currently available for Mac through Steam. Steam will be completely platform agnostic. If you purchase a game (either on PC or Mac), you can download both versions. I already owned the PC version of Torchlight, and I just pulled the Mac version today, no drama.

Mac Games on Steam (as of May 13th 2010):