Many different sources today are giving the details of Microsoft's purchase of Bungie Software Products (makers of "Myth" and "Marathon"). According to a Microsoft spokesman, " Bungie is going to move up to Redmond and create great games for the PC and Xbox and really help us shape Xbox as the games platform of the future."

While some Macintosh pundits are acting as if the sky has fallen, we take a different view. "Easy for you to say, you don't play games!" (Quite true. Your editor's computers have not a single game on them today, although at one time the old LC II was our platform of choice for a shoot-em-up outer space game whose name we have forgotten.) It does seem that continued Mac support for Bungie products is at least not going to be as high a priority as it was before, but why worry? The people at Bungie have worked hard and deserve whatever they are getting out of this agreement. If Mac support falls by the wayside, that means an opportunity will have arisen for someone lean, hungry, and new to dazzle everyone with cool Mac games. [Please forgive us for belaboring the obvious. This commentary actually falls in the category of "meta-journalism," or news writers talking about news writers. We would not have said a thing except for all the wailing and moaning on the Mac scene this morning. -- JHF]

November 21, 2008