Halo Predecessor Coming to iPad

Marathon redone with touchscreen controls.

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.

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