Steam For Mac Is Live, Includes Free Copy of Portal

Steam for the Mac is now live…. There’s some hickups, mainly the servers seem to be overloaded at this point…  But a long list of currently available games is also below, with Valve promising new games “highlighting an area of Steam functionality” every Wednesday. The following games are all Steam Play releases, meaning that you […]

Valve details Steam for Mac launch, includes Torchlight

Are you ready for the 12th?  I am… Valve has decided to detail the launch just prior to its release, including info on the first games to be available at launch. Folks playing the beta have already gotten to spend some time with Portal and Team Fortress 2 on the Mac. Now it’s been confirmed […]

How to remove CD Spin Doctor and/or perform a clean Install of Toast

This information is from Roxio: To perform a clean install of Toast. Please follow all of the instructions below: Please go to the following folder locations:BE SURE TO REMOVE THE FILES FROM BOTH LOCATIONS Macintosh HD> Library> Preferences Macintosh HD> Users> your username> Library> Preferences: trash the following files: * com.roxio.Toast.plist * Roxio Toast Prefs […]

Supreme Commander 2 coming to the Mac

After delivering ports of two The Chronicles of Riddick game to the Mac, Virtual Programming plans to bring Supreme Commander 2 to the platform later this year. I loved Total Annihilation, and Supreme Commander is considered by some to be the unofficial spiritual sequel….  So I am looking forward to see this on the Macintosh….

Mac OS X 10.6.4 Build 10F46

World of Apple dishes out information on 10.6.4 Build 10F46…. Apple today gave a select number of developers access to the second build of Mac OS X 10.6.4. Build 10F46 includes a multitude of fixes and just one known issues affecting a font within the operating system. Mac OS X 10.6.4 build 10F46 weighs in […]

Mark Bernstein: Platform Control

Mark Bernstein is exactly right here. This is a matter of Apple being able to control their own destiny, and not being blackmailed by other companies… John Gruber’s recent analysis of Apple’s policy is, I think, almost exactly correct. He is right to pinpoint PowerPlant/Metrowerks as a source of Apple’s anxiety. (Tinderbox is still struggling […]

Steam On the Mac – May 12

Valve today announced the public release of Steam for the Mac is May 12. Please stay tuned for more information. Finally we have a finalized date…  In case you happen to be wondering, yes, that was the press release in its entirety. What more needs to be said? Steam’s presence on Mac may revitalize the […]