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Valve releases Alien Swarm, a free Source top-down co-op shooter, on Monday

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I checked out the forums and was glad to see I wasn't the only one who really wants a DoTA Mod based on this. I'll definitely be downloading this.

League of Legends is a really fun DoTA based game that I've been playing recently.

http://www.leagueoflegends.com/

I really like what Valve is doing with Steam lately. They're in a big battle with that other game studio (Activision of course), and Alien Swarm looks like pretty good ammo. A pity there's no mac version. Yeah, I know, there's bootcamp.

or... you get the sdk and you re-implement it for the mac.

My understanding was that since Valve brought Steam and Source to Mac, all Source games will be playable on both PC and Mac going forward:

http://store.steampowered.com/news/3569/

Maybe...but

On the game page there is no Mac tag[1]. Also, someone mentioned in the forums that, "POrtal 2 would be their first game to be simultaneously released for Mac and Windows: http://store.steampowered.com/news/3569/[2].

[1] http://store.steampowered.com/app/630/

[2] http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showpost.php?p=1611274...

I imagine that Portal 2 and Alien Swarm are based on the same version of the Source Engine that hasn't been ported yet. All the Mac releases so far are older games on older engine versions. Both Left 4 Dead games haven't been ported to Mac yet.

Ah, I see. Thanks, woodall, ROFISH, for the info :)

It's not just free - they're also releasing the source!!!

The engine is called "Source", are you sure the source code will be freely released and if so, what source code exactly?

from my understanding, the source engine isnt open source but this game will be. i think that means that we can get anything that runs atop the engine but not the engine itself. wikipedia also has a page listing source in the commercial engines section rather than the open-source section.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_game_engines

This reminds me of Natural Selection, which has to have been one of the most interesting Half-Life mods I use to play.

http://www.unknownworlds.com/ns/

I have pretty high expectations after playing the UT 2004 version years back.

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