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Left 4 Dead Series Coming To OS X by October

Left 4 Dead Series Coming To OS X by OctoberValve has done a lot for Mac gamers in the last few months: first releasing the popular Steam digital delivery service for OS X, then following by quickly releasing native ports of most of their catalog for Mac gamers to play. In fact, Valve managed to squirt all of their Source-engine games (including Half-Life 2, its’ episodic add-on packs, Team Fortress 2 and Portal)out the door, before their release schedule stalled due to performance issues inherent to OS X, leaving their two most resource-hungry games — the team-based zombie shooters Left 4 Dead and Left 4 Dead II in limbo.

Come Halloween, you’ll be blowing away zombies with the rest of your buddies, though. Now that Apple has ironed out the kinks in OS X through a graphics update, it seems like Valve is now getting ready to finally release the Left 4 Dead series to Mac gamers. You can now expect to be able to download Left 4 Dead and its sequel through Steam for Mac by October, along with the upcoming DLC mission pack, The Sacrifice, which bridges the stories of both titles and is fully playable under either game.

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John Brownlee John Brownlee is news editor here at Cult of Mac, and has also written about a lot of things for a lot of different places, including Wired, Playboy, Boing Boing, Popular Mechanics, Gizmodo, Kotaku, Lifehacker, AMC, Geek and the Consumerist. He lives in Cambridge with his charming inamorata and a tiny budgerigar punningly christened after Nabokov's most famous pervert. You can follow him here on Twitter.

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  • Celso Dantas

    \o/!!!

    I’ve stopped playing left4dead 2 because i’m too lazy to reboot everytime I want to play. =P

  • Iain van Gardingen

    Fantastic, Another game whereupon us Windows users are going to have to explain elementary game mechanics to, also only people with top end macs are even going to be able to run L4D/2, so once more proving games + Mac’s = Fail

  • Elmer Fudd

    @Iain van Gardingen go get some sunlight troll.

  • Iain van Gardingen

    @Elmer Fudd Hark to you the one with a name well associated to trolling, I speak only of factual information, to have a playable game in Windows (and linux under WINE) most macs dont even meet minimum requirements to be able to play L4D/2 at above 15fps, thus making any movements jittery, which in turn will frustrate any team mates you have online, which from first hand experience pisses people off really quick. Before anyone makes the comment Mac Hater, i don’t hate them I in fact love using them, but unlike the majority of the Mac “Fan-boy/girl” I can at least hold some perspective on reality, that reality is, unless you have forked out over £1.5k / $1.8k to buy what is essentially six month out of date hardware in an fancy box with a flora based logo on the side, you simply are NOT going to be able to run it reliably. Secondly, Mac Users unless having converted from Windows to Mac due to necessity for reasons related to working (ie not parents giving comparitively dumb children, stupidly expensive, laptops for web browsing when a netbook would suffice) generally have no clue how to play online games with a keyboard and mouse, why? because when it was on Windows “It was too hard…” So when a title E.g. Team Fortress 2 comes to the mac its magically easy and perfectly possible to do? BS, Its just users proving once again that conformity reigns supreme in the Mac community. For reference, the general mac user should just give up on playing online FPS’s and go back to obsessing over your appearances and other such like BS. /rant

  • Dr.Evil

    @Iain von Fuckhead

    You are what piss people off really quick

  • lolz

    http://www.facebook.com/TofuHamster

    You can definitely tell YOU dont “obsesses over appearances” lol troll fag