Bungie pushes the indefinitely delayed Marathon back on stage, announcing a closed test for this month and promising a "public update" on its development coming soon

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Marathon lives!

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In a stunning display of endurance, Bungie's unfinished, unflattering, and ultimately delayed extraction shooter Marathon finally pokes its head out of the waves after months of looking like a goner, emerging now for a closed playtest.

Before announcing the test – scheduled to take place between October 22 to October 27 – developer Bungie had been strategically silent about Marathon's fate. The developer was accused for at least the fourth time in its history of plagiarizing another artist's work, and then it admitted to mistakenly doing so in Marathon, reportedly destroying company morale about the revival of its 1994 shooter of the same name.

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Ashley Bardhan
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Ashley is a Senior Writer at GamesRadar+. She's been a staff writer at Kotaku and Inverse, too, and she's written freelance pieces about horror and women in games for sites like Rolling Stone, Vulture, IGN, and Polygon. When she's not covering gaming news, she's usually working on expanding her doll collection while watching Saw movies one through 11.

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