The announcement last week that the Mac would be getting their own native version of Steam sent shockwaves in the small Mac gaming community, and rightfully so. Our sister site Joystiq managed to chat briefly with Valve's director of Steam development manager John Cook and Cook states flat out that the launch of Steam for the Mac, due in April, is "the biggest event in Steam's history since the service was first launched."

Cook is still keeping some info about the Mac Steam launch to himself, such as pricing for Valve's games on the Mac, although, as we mentioned before, if you already own Valve's games on Steam for the PC you get the Mac port for free. And what about all the other games that Steam provides to PC owners? Cook says, "We are having discussions with all the 1,000 publishers and developers currently offering their games on Steam and hope that many, if not all, eventually bring Mac versions of their games to market.."