Bungie celebrates 20 years with promise of Bungie Aerospace reveal, free iOS app

@shimrra74

Free Steak and Halo: Reach? I second that motion.

@shimrra74 So happy that a GREAT studio like Bungie is multiplatform, I was tough when they got bought out by MS but now the guys are back for everyone.

@The angry pro consumer gaming ga

this may be a bit of a stretch, but i strongly believe bungie would not be nearly as renown as they are if not for microsoft and the massive amount of bills they pumped into the production of the halo series and the marketing, etc.

shit, i remember bungie from back in the day. i played myth online, and loved it to death, but how many others did?

@Liquidfingers

But, but. . . ACTIVISION! I'd wish they'd go with THQ or 2K, or even CD Project RED's publisher, BUT NO! God Damned Activision.

THQ could seriously use the extra dough, they might not be a AAA publisher, but they make some fun ass games.

@Liquidfingers

I played Myth, and marathon before that, and pathways into darkness before that. I was a long-time Bungie fan, and it crushed me when they went to MS.

That said, it was obviously the right move for them; but it was painful as a faithful fan/mac user to get locked out from their awesome games. (no im not getting a 360 just for halo, i dont have enough time to play my ps3 games as-is).

so im very happy they are returning to multiplatform. though im scared about the MMO rumors regarding their next game; i have no time for an MMO in my life.

@Snappyguy

that's a shame. personally, i think Reach might be my favorite Halo multiplayer (with Halo 2 a very close second).

@ansalon929 Nobody really played any of those games when they were new. I remember when each of them came out, and none of them had the hype or media attention that Halo did when it came out, so naturally when people thing of Bungie they're going to think of Halo.

@FiredCylinder

I'm pretty sure Marathon was a bigish deal; 2 and infinity at any rate.

@ansalon929

That's neither really sad or shocking. Halo was great and it became extremely well known because of that and the help of MS. I see nothing sad about that.

@ansalon929 Why didn't you read the rest of that sentence? They already addressed the point better than you.

@Chibi Chaingun

me either. what's sad is that people like to hop on the hate bandwagon and try to bash halo, even though it's an excellent series of games.

@PenPenKun No doubt. Are you listening, gaming industry? There's more than one smartphone OS that's popular out there. Android is eating away at iOS more and more.

@FiredCylinder Yeah, but if you look at the amount of $$ to made on Android vs iOS, it's not even close.

@SpacePenguinBot But the app is free.

@SpacePenguinBot
this app is free...

@SpacePenguinBot

There's a reason for this. Apple pushes developers to charge for their applications so Apple can take a 30% cut of whatever your App makes, not to mention that just to develop on the platform, you need to shell out $99 for the SDK and then keep paying that $99 to push applications to the App Store. (A similar policy which Microsoft uses, however the Windows Phone 7 SDK is free.)

Google on the other hand just hands out it's SDK free of charge and then charges $25 a year to push applications to the Android market. Google, of course, came to dominance off-of advertising and thus, pushes developers to use their Google Ads services, taking an unknown cut of the revenue you make with your application.

So you're not comparing like-with-like. Yes, Apple does have iAds, but they're barely used and failed to launch. Advertisers, Google included, don't like people openly sharing how much money they make off advertisements. Hence why you hardly ever see figures for how much money people make off Android applications, they're forbidden to release that information if they use adverts as the sole means of revenue generation. However, developers still flock to Android as do customers, so they must be doing something right.

As for the current state of games on Android devices, the Android eco-system is a lot like the PC market. Lots of different hardware configurations and some minor fragmentation issues (95% of all Android devices run on 2.x firmware, but only 10% run the absolute latest version of the phone-bound OS; 2.3 "Gingerbread"). This makes things more difficult for developers over iOS, however it's what PC developers have had to deal with since the dawn of gaming itself. This was what kept large companies from developing on the Android system for long complicated reasons I wont bulk this post with. However there are signs of change. Square Enix has said they're looking into bringing Chaos Rings over to Android so the future looks pretty bright for the OS as a gaming platform.

Just remember that mobile gaming is just at the start of it's renaissance, it's still yet to find it's stride.

In this case the app is free, but for game developers trying to put food on the table Android has proven that it's extremely difficult to make ends meet on the platform.

@PenPenKun me too, bro. But trust me one day we will have equality. Some guy named MLK told me so.

Myth, Myth 2, and ONI were all games I played and enjoyed immensely. Especially the myth games.

@Coldbrand

Surely you can't be talking about Halo: Reach when you say shitty game.

@skbkoy65 Why wouldn't Activision put their full marketing weight behind the next Bungie IP? Its to their benefit to do so, they signed a 10 year exclusivity agreement, and wrote Bungie a blank check. They wouldn't do that and then send the product to die.

@Dick Socrates

What about 'Splosion Man, Shadow Complex, Limbo, Trials HD...?

I also feel like I should mention that Insomniac is making a multiplat game now...

but yeah, when it comes to retail exclusives, PS3 far and away has the upper hand.

@Acosta02

Halo, Gears of War, Forza, Fable, Crackdown

inFamous, ModNation Racers, Gran Turismo, LittleBigPlanet, Uncharted, God of War

I'd say they are about equal, Gears and Halo have a much larger fanbase than any of the PS3 games. Saying that, inFamous is brilliant.

@Jameseh

in b4 the epic list wars

@bensmith91

Holy shit I'm old.

@baby sea tuna

HEY WHERE'S MY SYMBIAN NGAGE SUPPORT!?

@trickybuz93
can I get one?
gt: killer rin

@killer rin Sent you one :)

@trickybuz93
How does it work, do they give you a list of marketplace codes?
Hook me up me up if you still have the ability as I am just a luly android user.
GT: SquatterBag