Wow. Looks like OS X might see both Steam and Source in the not to distant future. That would be pretty epic.

Even I was dubious about the rumor the other day of Steam coming to the Mac, but now here's something straight from Valve hinting that it might actually happen. MacRumors got an image of Half-Life's Gordon Freeman via email... with an Apple logo on his chest. MacNN got another picture, this one showing turrets from Portal and Team Fortress 2 parodying the "I'm a Mac" ads. And Shacknews got a third, with the Heavy from TF2 eating a sandwich shaped like an Apple logo in a parody of the iPod dancing ads.

I wonder if they actually rewrote the Source engine to work with OpenGL, or they are just going to run it under a WINE like CCP did with EVE Online. Either way it's going to be pretty freaking awesome playing Portal natively under OS X.

And I've got to give Valve big props for their brilliant guerrilla marketing tactics in getting these images out. They made headlines across the entire Apple community with a half dozen images. That's strategy and efficiency at it's best.

Linux next?