Marshall Williams

@Alex M
I think I know what you're talking about. I've seen this before too.
http://www.chorewars.com/

3 words.
Pokemon World Online

http://www.pokemonworldonline.net/

@Nick

But do you really think major devs will take up on this? Sure, your indie companies will be in a gold rush for this, but what about some of the bigger ones? Something tells me the big publishers are not going to go for this. Sure, EA will sell The Sims, Quake, Rage, Doom, etc but those have already all be ported (Well, Rage is...you know).

I dont expect to see a slew of new games ported. Just old ones uniting in one place.

Steam finally going to OSX? Not all that surprised. Let's be clear about something though. Strictly software here (We are not going to get started on the hardware aspect), Windows will still be the definitive gaming platform.

You can port Steam to OSX, Linux, BSD, Android, pretty much anything you want. Why? All Steam is is a stripped web-browser with a few controls specifically for Steam.

Steam =/= games. For the games in the Steam marketplace to work on OSX they are going to have to get developers to port their games over to OSX. That is going to require a lot of work, especially if they are written in DirectX which there is not a chance in hell Microsoft is giving over their killer API to their rivals developers. OpenGL games may be ported but only if the developer wants to. Thats a lot of man-power and money required.

If this is real (Brings back this http://tinyurl.com/5hho9v) then I don't expect it to be a big game collection. Maybe a few games that are already ported (World of Goo, pretty much any game by id Software, etc)

This is not going to be a game changer

+1 - People should stop being so careless. I am a computer technician and over 1/2 the Windows machines I repair have programs I have never heard of on them. A quick Google search of the program name and the first 5 results will usually tell you its without doubt a virus.

How hard is it to Google?

Sure, my gaming machine is a desktop therefore it IS always connected to the internet. What about my laptop? Sometimes I want a gaming fix on the go. At least with steam you can set it to go into offline mode. And why make another login? Just program your game to work beautifully with Steamworks and get Steam to sell it.

No one wants your shitty DRM

Yahoo = Microsoft
Yahoo + Linux = ?

Yes, they are. But they dropped Mac because no-one wanted to develop VLC for Mac. This is a whole new project. It's bound to spark interest

@D dogg

Those who want to be the best understand that a gamepad does not satisfy this requirement. Keyboard and mouse forever.

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