Mac's have steadly been supplanting Windows PC's as the home, and for many the work, computer of choice for a few years now. About the only thing thats kept us from handing our children over to Steve Jobs to toil in his underground tofu mines is the lack of real support for games on the Mac OS. The only big game developer for PC that supports Mac's in any consistent way is Blizzard whose entire upcoming lineup, including Starcraft 2, Diablo 3 and the next Warcraft expansion, all destined to be mega selling games for the PC, are compatible with both systems.

Well here's some good news for my fellow pretentious douche bags (nya nya we don't care), we're getting our own Steam network from Valve, complete with all their topshelf products! Woot!

Valve have officially anounced, after much hinting, that Mac users will be able to log on to Steam and download and play, Portal, Half Life 2 and it's episodes, Counterstrike, Team Fortress 2 and Left 4 Dead. Very cool. Faithful early adopters will also be able to take advantage of a feature called Steam Play that allows users with a Steam PC account who have all ready downloaded a title to their PC to download it again to their Mac for free. No question that Valve's corporate philosophy seems to be based on making the customers happy (take note Activision).

In addition all Valve's future releases will be available for the Mac and PC simultaneously starting with their next major new release Portal 2. The Mac Steam client will be available as soon as April.

Not much word yet on third party publishers and they're support for the Mac Steam client, but hopefully we hear more soon. Particularly about say, a Torchlight port over to Mac. Pretty please?