{"id":7008,"date":"2010-03-08T09:53:48","date_gmt":"2010-03-08T17:53:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/?post_type=news&#038;p=7008"},"modified":"2018-08-10T19:55:37","modified_gmt":"2018-08-10T19:55:37","slug":"steam-comes-to-mac","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/steam-comes-to-mac\/","title":{"rendered":"Steam Comes to Mac"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_9222\" style=\"width: 400px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9222\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-9222 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/left4dead2-S-e1430284025257.jpg\" alt=\"Coming to the Mac.\" width=\"390\" height=\"244\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-9222\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Coming to the Mac.<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">MARCH 8, 2010 \u2022 Steam, Valve Inc.&#8217;s digital download service will support the Mac platform starting in April. Valve&#8217;s library of games including Left 4 Dead 2, Team Fortress 2, Counter-Strike, Portal, and the Half-Life series will be available.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><em>Impact: In DFC\u2019s recently launched Consumer Trends and Virtual Goods report that included a survey of 5,000 PC gamers across the US, Europe and UK, 25% indicated they owned an iPhone or iPod Touch.\u00a0 Apple\u2019s footprint among gamers is only increasing so any effort to increasing gaming accessibility on native Mac operating systems will be widely accepted.\u00a0 As a long time supporter of the mod development community on the PC, Valve has an opportunity to lure many Mac enthusiasts to try computer games development given the high overlap of aspiring and professional content creators who already use the Apple platform.\u00a0 While unlikely to have a huge immediate impact on the balance of power between PC and Mac gaming, this is an important first step before any significant rise in Mac share of the gaming market can occur.\u00a0<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MARCH 8, 2010 \u2022 Steam, Valve Inc.&#8217;s digital download service will support the Mac platform starting in April. Valve&#8217;s library of games including Left 4 Dead 2, Team Fortress 2, Counter-Strike, Portal, and the Half-Life series will be available. Impact: In DFC\u2019s recently launched Consumer Trends and Virtual Goods report that included a survey of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[110,78,70],"tags":[55,84],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7008"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7008"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7008\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16884,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7008\/revisions\/16884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}