∞ Bungie returns to the Apple fold, sorta

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Bungie is the video game developer behind the legendary Halo franchise, so when it makes a move, gamers and game industry analysts tend to pay attention. Now the company’s turning its sites to mobile and social gaming with a new effort it calls Bungie Aerospace.

Long-time Mac users know Bungie as makers of the Marathon and Myth game series, of course, but they’ve been absent from the Mac ever since they were acquired by Microsoft. Now that they’re on their own again they’re looking for new stuff to do, though, and Bungie Aerospace is a new plan to team up with indie software developers in the mobile and social gaming spaces. Their first product is Crimson, which is coming to iOS this summer.

This news comes shortly after Bungie revealed that an independent developer has created a version of Marathon that runs on the iPad. Now, where’s Myth?


  • http://twitter.com/franckhertz franckhertz

    Myth? Can we Myst and Riven back from the iPhone to modern Macs first? OS 9 Macs are hard to come by these days.

    • Anonymous

      I’m not a gamer on my Mac, but Riven was a high point. The ones after that were OK, but the interlaced narrative of the puzzles in Riven was exquisite. I would absolutely LOVE to have an OS X version. I’d buy it for nostalgia alone. And to have it for my daughter.

    • http://www.jphotog.com Hrunga Zmuda

      Myth and Myst/River were not connected other than being first on Mac. But while we haven’t fallen off the nostalgia wagon yet, I want to see Oni (originally Bungee) and Deus Ex back on the Mac in OS X. 

      And Lunatic Fringe. :)

      • Player_16

        You know, you can play Marathon and Oni on OSX. Google ‘Maraton’ and go from there.

        • http://www.jphotog.com Hrunga Zmuda

          I tried, but can’t find my license number, so Oni is dead to me. Is Oni Intel or Universal? I’m playing Marathon on my iPad now. :-D

  • ErikvdO

    So, ‘Bungie is back’, but what I’d like to know is how many of the people that now comprise Bungie were part of that company when Marathon, Myth, and/or the original Halo were conceived of.

    • Peter Cohen

      A lot of the original folks have left – Alex Seropian, who founded Bungie, went on to form Wideload Studios, for example. But a few are still there, including Jason Jones – who did the original programming for Marathon, Myth and Halo, and Marty O’Donnell, Halo’s soundtrack composer.