Macworld has a quick chat with Bungie after this morning's big announcement that the company is "evolving" away from Microsoft a bit, and the good news is that a new Mac release from our favorite game developer (before they were bought out by the Evil Empire, that is) is not out of the question.Spokeman Brian Jarrard plays pretty loose with the announcement, and says that while Bungie and Microsoft are going to retain their developer and publisher relationship, his company won't "rule out anything going forward." He says the move will let Bungie "[control] our destiny, and that puts us in a position where we could put ourselves back on the [Mac] platform definitively again."
We can only hope. EA and id games made a big appearance at this years' WWDC, and I think I speak for many, many Mac gamers when I say we'd love to see Bungie announcing a brand new game at Macworld in a few months.
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10-05-2007 @ 9:25PM
Michael Rose said...
OMG Bungie on Mac FTW. Marathon Forever!
Uh, OK, I think I need an inner-childectomy. Still, I remember some truly awesome Marathon LAN battles back in the mid-90s, late at night, when the network link between my office at Entertainment Weekly and my colleagues two blocks away at LIFE was uncongested and ripe for fraggin'... ah, the pleasures of a misspent youth.
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10-05-2007 @ 9:27PM
RWD fan said...
I don't think I'll hold my breath. I mean, WTF happened with Garmin, they can't even port GPS software over?
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10-05-2007 @ 9:52PM
Mark Thomas said...
Halo is nothing but a worse Marathon with better graphics made by a pack of Surrender Monkeys. Don't come back to the Mac, Bungie. Stay with Bill. He loves you.
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10-05-2007 @ 10:12PM
Jt Hollister said...
To Mark:
You're a fool. This isn't about whether you LIKE Halo or not, it's about the fact that Bungie is the world's biggest game developer (debatable, but they're huge) right now. It's about the fact that if Bungie develops for mac, countless others will follow. It's about the fact that when there's games for Mac, there's a possibility of gamers seeing the light.
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10-05-2007 @ 10:38PM
jbelkin said...
Bungie was working on a Mac only FPS shooter called HALO like 7 years ago, I wonder what ever happened to that after some Washington state company bought Bungie ...
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10-05-2007 @ 11:14PM
TallyHo said...
jbelkin: Wasn't it supposed to more of a Myth 2.0, with squad-based third-person tactical warfare? anyone remember? I only remember of those very early screenshots an overhead perspective of the soldiers running about a hilly landscape.
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10-06-2007 @ 12:27AM
Mike said...
The smile i will have for the next week may be raising some question on what did i consume on the week end.
Seriously tho, Halo 2 for Vista was a faliure. The idea was there, but then it needed Vista and had the shitty Live system thats a total faliure on PC (tho its great on the 360). Now if only i could get some halo 2/3 love on my Mac, id be sold in a heartbeat.
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10-06-2007 @ 8:27AM
Gary Coughlin said...
Where can you buy the Marathon game? Are they still available? Can you run them on OS X?
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10-06-2007 @ 8:51AM
Bud said...
Sigh... You Mac geeks are so pathetic.
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10-06-2007 @ 9:05AM
Michael Rose said...
Gary -- Marathon has gone open source:
http://tuaw.com/tag/marathon
http://sourceforge.net/projects/marathon
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10-06-2007 @ 9:46AM
blake said...
This would bring me back to gaming!!!
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10-06-2007 @ 10:05AM
Tallest Skil said...
Halo 3 exclusivity for the Mac. At least for the first six months. Or maybe Halo 2 first. Either way, Bungie's back and there's no denying it.
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10-06-2007 @ 10:12AM
DaiMac79 said...
@ #9: Who is more pathetic, actual mac users posting on a *gasp* blog about Macs, or somebody who obviously doesn't have a Mac trolling on that same blog? I'm sure if you can't figure it out you can get a grown-up to tell you.
As to the actual topic, yeah its gonna be interesting, looking at some of the Halo 2/3 production videos its obvious Bungie as a developer still uses Macs for the majority of their art and code production. That shouldn't be surprising, given that Xbox 360's CPU is a PPC variant; remember how early 360 game demos were all found to be running off of PowerMac G5's? Anyway, while I think its farther off than the next MacWorld we could definitely see a new game from Bungie for the Mac (probably among others, depending on the size/scope of the game) later in 2008, or early 2009.
As to whether it should be Marathon 4...I dunno how I feel about that, and I'm as hardcore a Marathon fan as can be found outside of the AlephOne dev team. I just don't know if it could really recapture the "feel" of the Marathon games, what I don't want is a new game that is essentially a Marathon mod for the Halo3 engine.
Too bad Take Two still owns Myth, a new Myth game might be the only RTS with a hope of stealing playtime from Starcraft II.
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10-06-2007 @ 12:19PM
adam bucci said...
i remember seeing halo and oni demo'd at macworld in 99. both seemed way ahead of the other companies in concept and play.
enough of the memories, what i'd truly like to see is a sequel or a reworking of the original great bungie game - pathways into darkness.
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10-07-2007 @ 8:10AM
Bud said...
#13 Posted from a 24" iMac and I have a 17" MBP. So yeah guess I'm a troll. Wake up and smell the irrational speculation and ridiculous conjecture.
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10-09-2007 @ 1:30PM
DaiMac79 said...
@Bud: So, you have 2 macs but are not a "Mac Geek"? Ok, my bad for taking your random and obviously negative post at face value. Of course, I like to actually try and make a point when I bother to post a comment, so what do I know?
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