Marathon Coming to the iPad

Old-school Mac gamers will remember Bungie's Marathon, a first person shooter for Macs released in 1994. Developer Daniel Blezek has been working on porting the game over to the iPad, and has received official support from Bungie.

Bungie, before being bought out by Microsoft, was dedicated to the Mac platform and their fans. Unfortunately, Microsoft put a stop to that, first by delaying the release of Halo, which was supposed to be a Mac exclusive, and then by canceling it on all other platforms but their own. It's a real shame, Microsoft limited Bungie's creativity as well as the platforms they could release their games on.

However, Marathon was made before Microsoft sunk their talons into the game company. This means Bungie still has the rights to it, and is allowed to sanction ports of their classic games like Marathon.

You can expect the new iPad port soon, and it will be available for free. It looks like an iPhone port won't be available, at least not right away.
via MacRumors