Valve's Steam store launched on the Mac in May 2010 with Portal free for two weeks, and its holiday sales, with daily deals at 75 percent off, became a ritual. Steam had around 30 million accounts and was already the default way to buy PC games.
- Developer
- Valve
- Publisher
- Valve
- Released
- 12 May 2010
- Platforms
- PC, Mac (May 2010)
- Genre
- Digital storefront
- Kind of game
- pc
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Valve brought its Steam store to Mac OS X, gave away Portal for two weeks to celebrate, and introduced Steam Play so one purchase worked on both platforms.
