Such a shame. I do think Halo was very much already the spiritual successor to Marathon, and I know all the studios just want to have the big multiplayer game that everyone plays for years and years these days, but man was I excited when I first saw the teaser for this last year. I still name all my computer equipment after Marathon AIs.

My first “real” phone was the HTC Hero. Slow as heck and had a random trackball that I never used. Loved it though.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:HTC_Hero_(CDMA_-_Sprint).jpg