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Bungie says Mac games are still a possibility
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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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Michael Rose said 9:25PM on 10-05-2007
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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RWD fan said 9:27PM on 10-05-2007
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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Mark Thomas said 9:52PM on 10-05-2007
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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Jt Hollister said 10:12PM on 10-05-2007
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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jbelkin said 10:38PM on 10-05-2007
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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TallyHo said 11:14PM on 10-05-2007
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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Mike said 12:27AM on 10-06-2007
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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Gary Coughlin said 8:27AM on 10-06-2007
Where can you buy the Marathon game? Are they still available? Can you run them on OS X?
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Bud said 8:51AM on 10-06-2007
Sigh... You Mac geeks are so pathetic.
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Michael Rose said 9:05AM on 10-06-2007
Gary -- Marathon has gone open source:
http://tuaw.com/tag/marathon
http://sourceforge.net/projects/marathon
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blake said 9:46AM on 10-06-2007
This would bring me back to gaming!!!
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Tallest Skil said 10:05AM on 10-06-2007
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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DaiMac79 said 10:12AM on 10-06-2007
@ #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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adam bucci said 12:19PM on 10-06-2007
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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Bud said 8:10AM on 10-07-2007
#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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DaiMac79 said 1:30PM on 10-09-2007
@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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