An interview published on Bungie.net with indie developer Daniel Blezek reveals that Bungie has given its blessing to his iPad port of Marathon, Halo's spiritual ancestor.
Originally released in 1994, Marathon was (at the time) a great technical achievement, but it never sold well
and still isn't known widely, largely because its primary platform was
Macintosh rather than PC.
The iPad remake will be out very soon, it seems – Bungie says it'll let
us know when it hits the app store. It features redesigned controls for
the iPad touch-screen, which Blezek worked hard to implement.
You can already
download the whole Marathon trilogy for free from Bungie here, if you have the technical instincts to actually make
it run on a modern non-Apple computer without setting it or yourself on
fire.
Bungie's 20th anniversary is this year, and the developer is celebrating
it in a myriad of different ways, including holding a charity auction
and possibly making a non-Halo-related announcement on July 7th. Check
out
Bungie.net for details.