

Label, an imprint wholly dedicated to Mac games). Microsoft has struck development and publishing arrangements with Gearbox Studios to bring the game to Windows, while Destineer - the company behind other recent Microsoft Mac game releases like Age of Empires II: Gold Edition and Links Championship Edition - will create and publish the Mac version (under its Some gamers and game news sites extrapolated that Halo would not, then, be made for Mac or Windows, a misconception that’s finally been shattered.

Microsoft’s packaging for Halo indicated the game would be an Xbox exclusive - at least for game consoles. In the spring of 2000, Bungie was acquired by Microsoft, and plans were announced thereafter to publish Halo for Xbox. Bungie - initially a Mac-only developer - first unveiled plans to create Halo with support both Mac and Windows users, as it had with previous game franchises like Myth and Marathon. Halo’s history long predates the Xbox, however - this news culminates an odyssey that first began several years ago when Microsoft’s Bungie Studios was still an independent company.
