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Half Life 2 Updated and Released for Mac

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Today, the Half Life 2 series was made available for cross platform gaming between the PC and Mac. The update included 45 new achievements for the series, Steam Cloud support for save games, and graphical effect improvements.

Half-Life 2 took 6 years to build, and here almost 6 years later we get to release it again - this time on the Mac. As of today Half-Life 2, Half-Life 2: Episode 1, and Half-Life 2: Episode 2 are available on Steam on the Mac. They're SteamPlay titles, so if you own the games on the PC you already get them on the Mac, and if you haven't played HL2, buying it gets you access on both systems. Half-Life 2 has one of the highest critical ratings of any Valve game, with a 96 on Metacritic, and has seen consistently high player numbers on Steam with over 216,000 users playing it in the last month.

Also, if you've never played through the Half Life 2 Series, please do it now. :)

Source: http://store.steampowered.com/news/3873/

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Doles

yeah HL2 is so epic. Wonder if the update will be noticeable? And, can mac users play synergy with pc users?

27/05/2010

Western Australia | /dev/null is already 98% full

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RynoCerus

I'm not too sure that synergy is a compatible game ATM, but who knows, maybe even the synergy developers will release a compatible version. The number of compatible games grows every week, so it could possibly be available soon. ^_^

27/05/2010

Gold Coast - Queensland

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maxiboy

Synergy would pretty much have to be re-coded for mac, and it is technically an indie title, so who knows.
Steam is probably the best thing for mac if they're trying to promote themselves as a gaming platform once again.
PC will always be more well known as a far as gaming goes, have you ever tried to upgrade a mac? I imagine it wouldn't be easy hardware wise.

29/05/2010

Sydney, NSW

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Noradia

maxiboy said: Synergy would pretty much have to be re-coded for mac, and it is technically an indie title, so who knows.
Steam is probably the best thing for mac if they're trying to promote themselves as a gaming platform once again.
PC will always be more well known as a far as gaming goes, have you ever tried to upgrade a mac? I imagine it wouldn't be easy hardware wise.

Yeah PC will still dominate the PC gaming market but its fantastic to see that Apple Mac computers starting to get more games compatible for the Mac. I have a friend that is stoked about this and she cant wait to see if more game developers will follow in Valves footsteps.

29/05/2010

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Skarteh

Valve do lead the way with PC tech a lot of the time so it wouldn't surprise me if they start the trend.

This could actually turn quite a few Mac users onto PC unless Apple actually keep up with the trend :P chances are they won't, so if a lot of Mac users turn into PC gamers it won't be long before they notice they're paying a shitload for a slow computer :P

29/05/2010

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