The developer of the iPad port of Marathon ran into some roadblocks last February while trying to bring the classic franchise up to date. Between some serious technical bugs, and some licensing problems he wasn't even completely sure his work would ever get released.
Today, however, it was announced not only that the Marathon port will be coming to iPad, but it will be coming very soon. From the sound of it, it's already been submitted for App Store approval. But the good news goes even further than that. It was also announced that the game will be 100% free.
The original Marathon trilogy is currently available for free download on Mac, and will even be going open source soon. With all of this big Marathon-related news we're almost tempted to hold out a glimmer of hope that Bungie is resurrecting the franchise for their upcoming non-Halo game announcement. Though it's probably all just a coincidence considering how long developer Daniel Blezek has been working on the Marathon iPad port.
