Barriers are meant to be overcome.

Now, some of my readers might be severely disappointed that my beloved Steam platform is only accessible to the PC crowd. Now, as a staunch PC supporter, I’d like to start by saying to all you Mac users, “Na na na boo boo!” Now that we got that out of the way, let’s talk unity!

Steam has been hinting for a while through some no-so-subtle images, show below, based on their most popular games, Half-life (The ones with a crowbar), Team Fortress 2 (The one with the turret and the one with the fat man eating a sandwich), Portal (the sleeker, sexier turret), and Left 4 Dead (the one with Francis hating things), that they’ll be bringing Steam to the Mac. Well, now it’s official. Steam has announced that not only will Steam be on the Mac, it will be the same as if it were on a PC. There will literally be no difference, to the point where people playing on a Mac can play in the same game, on the same servers, as someone with a PC and you’ll never even know. Sneaky. They’ve even added a new feature called Steam Play which allows people who bought the game on one system to download it for free on the other. No buying the same game twice and we’re not talking some cheap port. The game’s being made as a native version, meaning the code will be custom-built to work. No wonky errors making the game better on one system. With this and Steam Cloud saving all your presets between computers, there will be almost no hassle transferring from one system to the next. The first game to be duel-released on both systems at the same time will be Portal 2, the highly anticipated sequel to what may be my favorite game of all time.

Valve knows how to form and unite a community, and what better way to band together than with games about killing each other?

Gordan Freeman from Half-Life 2, Mac-ified

TF2 turret vs. Portal turret

TF2 Heavy eating his Sandvich.

L4D’s Francis says “I hate different.”

Steam on Ye Olde Macintosh.

HL2’s Alyx Vance immitating the 1984 Apple commercial.