Great news for gamers with Mac’s; Valve has finally released Steam for Mac — and as an added bonus they are including a free download of the hit game Portal through May 24th.

Steam is a game download service which offers easy access to many popular games and now with a Mac version users can purchase a game once and play it on both platforms as part of SteamPlay. Not all titles are currently part of SteamPlay, but more will be added each Wednesday as Valve ramps up Steam for Mac.

There are currently 57 games available on Steam for Mac:

• And Yet It Moves
• Atlantis Sky Patrol
• Bejeweled 2 Deluxe
• Bob Came in Pieces
• Bookworm Deluxe
• Braid
• Brainpipe
• Chocolatier: Decadence by Design
• Chuzzle Deluxe
• City of Heroes: Architect Edition
• Civilization IV: The Complete Edition
• Cooking Dash
• Diaper Dash
• The Dig
• Diner Dash: Hometown Hero
• DinerTown Detective Agency
• DinerTown Tycoon
• Dream Chronicles: The Chosen Child
• Escape Rosecliff Island
• Fairway Solitaire
• Fitness Dash
• Football Manager 10
• Galcon Fusion
• Gemini Lost
• Guns of Icarus
• Hotel Dash Suite Success
• Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis
• Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
• KrissX
• Loom
• Luxor
• Luxor 3
• Luxor: Mahjong
• Machinarium
• Mahjong Roadshow
• Max and the Magic Marker
• My Tribe
• The Nightshift Code
• Nightshift Legacy: The Jaguar’s Eye
• Parking Dash
• Peggle Deluxe
• Peggle Nights
• Portal
• Professor Fizzwizzle and the Molten Mystery
• Quantz
• Sam & Max: The Devil’s Playhouse
• Tales of Monkey Island Season 1
• Toki Tori
• Torchlight
• Trijinx: A Kristine Kross Mystery
• Unwell Mel
• Valarie Porter and the Scarlett Scandal
• Wandering Willows
• Wedding Dash 2: Rings Around the World
• World of Goo
• Zenerchi
• Zuma Deluxe

Steam for Mac Released; Free Portal is a post by Josh Smith from Notebooks.com.

If you are serious gamer, it’s unlikely that you haven’t already played Portal, one of the more innovative games to come out in the last few years… still, high-end gaming rig creator Alienware has teamed up with the popular game downloading platform Steam to offer machines with Steam pre-installed, along with a free copy of Portal, which I can personally recommend as a great game with a style and gameplay that is all its own. Take a look at a Portal trailer below:

Don’t be fooled, the inclusion of Steam is not crapware, Steam is the largest game distribution platform for PCs to date, giving players access to some 980+ games. If you are a serious gamer, having Steam pre-installed on your new Alienware machine means just one less step before you can get your game on, and getting a free copy of a highly regarded game isn’t so bad either.

Don’t forget to check out Xavier’s review of the Alienware M17x if you are looking at buying one of their gaming notebooks.

via Joystiq

Alienware Computers Now Pre-Loaded With Steam and Portal is a post by Ben from Notebooks.com.