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Ozymandias:
Well, "invent" might be too strong a word, but it's not that far off. Steam is coming to Macs and, with it, Valve cornering a near monopoly on Mac gaming, opening the door for other developers to follow suit.

That's fairly big news on its own. What's super awesome are the ads that are accompanying this announcement:













If you can't read the fifth one:


--- Quote ---"Introducing Steam. For the rest of us.

In the olden days, people had to go to stores to buy games. It was awful. Not many people knew how.
And not many people wanted to learn. Seminars. Wallet Manuals. Walking classes. Remembering to carry
money. It was so complicated you'd have to be a store expert to understand it all.

But then, on a bright day in Bellevue, Seattle, the people who didn't go to stores got together with the
people who make things for money to figure out a solution. After half an hour nobody had come up with
any ideas, and tempers were running high. Then somebody had an idea: they should get into a fight.

Later, at the hospital, a doctor said, "You guys should really invent something that lets you buy games
without leaving the house." Everybody told him he should shut up if he didn't want a fat lip. "Man, I
don't want a fat lip," the doctor thought, so he didn't say anything more about it.

A couple of days later, though, everybody agreed that mouthy doctor might have been onto something,
and so they built a thing that let them buy games on their computers without leaving the house.

"There's different types of computers, though," said one guy. "We'll figure that out later," said another guy.

And, years later, they did."
--- End quote ---

scarred:
Of all the companies to monopolize Mac gaming, I'm OK with it being Valve.

As long as I can still play Starcraft 2, when it comes out in 2016.

JD:
Those are some clever ads

KvP:
I'm wondering how they'll get over the OpenGL hump. A Steam platform for the Mac is all well and good but Steam isn't what a Mac OS needs to play games, ultimately.

Catfish_Man:
Somewhere Blizzard sheds a tear for deeds unremembered.

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