I caught this just today from the newest Apple E-News report:

During his keynote address, Steve Jobs welcomed Ed Fries onto the Macworld stage. Vice President of Games for Microsoft, Fries reassured the audience. Yes, Microsoft certainly will release Halo for the Mac. In fact, it will be released for the Mac at the same time it is released for X-Box, Microsoft’s new videogame console.

However, when asked about this in the HBO forum, Matt Soell had this to say:

Matt's been responding to questions about the E3 Halo trailer in a couple of threads at halo.bungie.org. On the subject of why there was relatively little blood and gore shown, he said:

Following Alex Seropian's reaffirmation of Halo for the Mac during Steve Jobs' MacWorld keynote last Wednesday, InsideMacGames scored a short video interview. In the video, Bungie Studios president Seropian commented on the decision.

The link doesn't appear to be working just yet, but we assume it will be shortly. Thanks to CyberBob on the Rampancy hotline server who pointed this out.

The fellows at halo.bungie.org have obtained a piece of early Halo artwork from the digital ink master Craig Mullins. Depicting a confrontation between a few marines and something with big claws, the picture is apparently a rejected piece, but what Mullins considers a reject is still beyond the ability of most mortals. Here's hoping we see more of his work in the future!

We've already posted an item on Matt Soell's near-confirmation of Halo for the PC platform, but perhaps more importantly, later in that same thread he sheds some light on the on-again, off-again, on-again decision-making process regarding Halo's development. This has kept lots of us scratching our heads for the past few weeks, coming to a head with Alex Seropian's affirmation of Halo for the Mac during Steve Jobs' MacWorld keynote on Wednesday.

On the halo.bungie.org forum, Matt Soell was asked whether Halo will come out for the PC, and if so, why this announcement wasn't simultaneous with that of Halo's being released for the Mac. His response:

Releasing it for PCs as well is the obvious thing to do. It wasn't PCWorld Expo, ya know. :-)

Everyone comes to the Halo party.

Read the thread.

And the Heavens did part, and a great Hallelujah did come down and kick all of our asses.

In the keynote address at this morning's Macworld New York, a year after Halo's premiere showing at the same event within an event, Steve Jobs, Bungie's Alex Serpoian, and MS's Ed Fries have reaffirmed their commitment to the Mac and PC platforms. Half crazed with the my missing video stream, I will try to get the important details here:

The future of Bungie's game on the Mac

Haven't had a great way to come to the Mac - Ed Fries