Bungie ponders a Marathon revival
In the latest weekly update from Bungie, a fan asks: "Marathon and XBLA (referring to Xbox Live Arcade): is it at all possible?" Bungie, via Frankie, responds "Of course it's possible, it's just not on any current agenda. If it's any consolation, many, many people think it's a good idea." It sucks that the statement is technically closer to a denial than a confirmation, but that won't matter: any time Bungie even mentions its legendary (originally Mac-only, I'll have you know) first person shooter series it's an excuse for Marathon fans to break out the bubbly. Just make sure you're not around when the fans swap the champagne for an M-75 combination assault rifle and grenade launcher after they realize that after they* stole Halo from the Mac platform for their* Xbox platform, they* could also be about to steal the definitive Mac game.
*"They" of course refers to a certain software company beginning with the word "Micro" and ending with the word "evil".

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mungler said 6:22AM on 5-30-2006
PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE LET THEM DO IT :D
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Narcogen said 7:48AM on 5-30-2006
You know, the Mac is a computing platform and the Xbox is a gaming platform. And a decent one, at that.
You could just use both, as consoles are much cheaper than computers, generally speaking-- the PlayStation 3 excepted, of course.
I was a big fan of Bungie's games since Marathon and Myth on the Mac, and now I'm a big fan of the Halo series on the Xbox, and I can't wait to see what Bungie does next after that.
Marathon for XBL Arcade would be great, but there's Aleph One for OS X, Windows and Linux, including mapmaking tools and IP multiplayer.
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Karl Hillert said 9:19AM on 5-30-2006
Im all in!!!
I know a ton of buddies that would jump on board for this Game...
Give me that flame thrower!!!!!!
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Michel said 10:28AM on 5-30-2006
my mac is maybe a computing platform but I play to World of warcraft with the mac and I totally don't care about what people believes.
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Michael Wren said 4:47PM on 5-30-2006
As Narcogen said, you can play it now!
http://source.bungie.org/get/
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