
377: ‘guyenglish.zip’, With Guy English
The Talk Show With John Gruber
Sony Owns Bungee
Halo was going to debut as a Mac game just like marathon, but then a small company named Microsoft bought bungee. But then Halo became what Mario is to Nintendo platforms. That's the reason I bought the original Xbox in 99 or 2000 whatever year it came out instead of buying whatever the PlayStation 2 or whatever the PlayStation was of the time because I wanted Halo. It did come out for the Mac eventually. And now Sony owns bungee. Seems weird given that Microsoft is interested in buying EA. They obviously want to own intellectual property and game studios and want to spend Microsoft's trying to buy it.
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