Take this with a grain of salt, but the creators of popular first-person shooter Halo may be working on a new online game for iOS and Android devices. As noted by TouchArcade and GameInformer today, a new filing at the USPTO confirms Bungie Aerospace has trademarked “Crimson”, a “computer game software for use on mobile and cellular phones.” Sounds intriguing, but what’s Bungie Aerospace? The company is likely a subsidiary of the “real thing” Bungie, and that’s already been incorporated in Delaware and Washington. Mounting speculation suggests that this new company is the official mobile division of Bungie, something that the Halo developers hinted several times in the past. Bungie has been busy hiring and opening positions for mobile developers in the past months, so it seems pretty clear at this point that something in mobile is going on. And mobile these days means two things: iOS and Android. If Bungie is really working on a new mobile game, than we can assume it’s most definitely coming to the iPhone or iPad.

Really excited about this, i’ve always trusted Bungie to make a solid game and hopefully whatever Crimson is will be no different. Viticci also made the comment ‘A new iOS game would sure make for a big announcement at a certain Apple event in September.’ and I think it would be interesting to see if this pan’s out at all, we’ve already got stunning games like Infinity Blade and Rage and adding a game from Bungie to the mix would make iOS an even more compelling gaming platform than using Sony’s Experia Play where the most notable game available as of now is Crash Bandicoot, it would also be insane not to launch the new iPhone with the A5 processor, putting it at par with the iPad 2. Whether it happens or not is a different story, nevertheless it would be nice to see Apple and Bungie reunited again since Halo was first introduced as a game for the Mac and now Apple finally have a great gaming platform.

Well I never knew! This is actually new news to me that Apple were the ones who discovered Halo, and I don’t blame Steve for being pissed, having Halo would have been massive for Apple! Heres an extract about it from the always reliable Wikipedia but please check the source for the full story:

Originally developed as a real-time strategy game for the Apple Macintosh platform, Halo: Combat Evolved went through several iterations before arriving at the console first person shooter for which it is recognized. When the developer was bought by Microsoft in 2001, the game was rapidly finished and became an Xbox launch title and platform exclusive.

People are arguing it doesn’t matter and Halo on OS X wouldn’t have made any difference anyway, Halo wouldn’t have been popular as it is today if it weren’t for the Xbox platform. But I completely disagree! The whole point of Halo on the OS X exclusively was to boost Apples popularity and credibility within the gaming community, trash the old stereotype that Mac’s can’t play games, you know? And imagine, if Halo for the Mac had taken off, nowadays we could have been able to play it on our iPhones, our iPod Touches, our iPads! Oh woe is me, I guess i’ll have to settle for the copy of Halo: Combat Evolved I have installed on my Mac… it’s good enough I guess, but we could have had so much better! Huwbert out.