The Conversation

Show Notes

Dan Benjamin talks with Gabe Newell and Jason Mitchell of Valve and John Siracusa of Ars Technica about Steam for the Mac, embracing customers and modders, building cross-platform games, release schedules, and how Valve is approaching developing games for the Mac community.

This is an especially geeky episode.

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Guests

John Siracusa is a programmer and freelance writer for Ars Technica, Macworld. He has a B.S. in Computer Engineering from Boston University. He has been a Mac user since 1984, a Unix geek since 1993, and has spent the last decade as a professional web developer and freelance technology writer. John enjoys gaming, exercising his TiVo, writing open source software, and pining for the pizza and bagels of his childhood home of Long Island, NY. John lives in Newton, Massachusetts with his wife, two children, and an attic full of classic Mac and NeXT hardware. Learn more about John Siracusa »

Gabe Newell is the co-founder and managing director of video game development and digital distribution company Valve Corporation, creator of the successful Half-Life and Portal game series. Learn more about Gabe Newell »

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