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Valve have answered some of your basic questions about their recent Steam & Source games for Mac announcement in the latest post on the Official Team Fortress 2 blog.

Q: I own TF2 on the PC. Do I have to buy it again on the Mac?
A: No. If you own TF2 on the PC, you own [...]

An official announcement from Valve now states that Steam and the Source engine will become available on OSX. Valve’s library of games including Left 4 Dead 2, Team Fortress 2, Counter-Strike, Portal, and the Half-Life series will be available in April this year. Gabe says:As we transition from entertainment as a product to entertainment as [...]

Valve announced today it will bring Steam, Valve’s gaming service, and Source, Valve’s gaming engine, to the Mac.Steam and Valve’s…

Remember you can submit your mod news to news@halflife2.net, or add your mod to our mod listing database here. This week:Dear Esther revamp nearly complete- The Directors Cut of Dear Esther has hit the 50% mark, with massively overhauled environments.Visage media release- New screenshots shown, along with a weapon model and status report.New Orion Beta [...]

Over at PlanetPhillip.com there is a new mapping competition following on the from success of the Sniperville competition. The only stipulation as part of this competition is that the map involves the Episode 2 enemy, the hunter.The winning map will be the one that creates an interesting scenario using at least one Hunter. I am [...]

After a little over two years since the original Portal was released, and about three days of cryptic hints, Valve has finally officially announced…

It’s official and what most people were expecting, Valve have announced Portal 2 for shipment this coming holiday season. Steam News.The news underlines several words which spell out - drattmannh0nee, which seems to be a new username and password for the BBS which was previously used to find new ASCII art. More soon…

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News:

Battlefield: Bad Company 2 Limited Edition is Now Available - Battlefield: Bad Company 2 brings the award-winning Battlefield gameplay to the forefront of PC gaming with best-in-class vehicular combat and [...]

Ivan’s Secrets, a HalfLife 2 mod in development, has released a ton of eye candy for us to enjoy. Included are some model renders, map and ingame…

New update: Added valuable asset retrievalNew sound files found, and alternate ending for final fight with Glados. More details soon.