Marathon

The run-up to Marathon's release has been such a train wreck that it's easy to forget that the game might still be really good

"The Bungie team is fantastic": Academy Award-winning artist behind Marathon cinematic says the shooter's stolen art "was genuinely a mistake," and "blown out of proportion"

Former Bungie director spent their time on Marathon "dying to create a new genre name" because an extraction shooter is "the only genre where its name is a mechanic"

Sony is "fully dedicated" to making sure Destiny 2 studio's troubled extraction shooter Marathon doesn't face another delay, with Bungie "still working on it" following more closed testing

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

Amid Marathon's ongoing struggles and Concord's closure after just 2 weeks, Sony admits the whole PlayStation live service strategy thing isn't "entirely going smoothly"

Sony says Bungie's "independence is getting lighter" as it aims to launch the Destiny 2 studio's troubled new FPS Marathon before April 2026: "We are now fixing the problems, so we believe this launch will happen"

Marathon is delayed, but don't worry, Bungie says it just has to work on the AI, loot, combat, graphics, narrative, playlists, prox chat, and oops that's the whole game isn't it?

PlayStation insists Marathon has "strong early engagement," even after a very public art scandal and divisive playtests

Morale at Bungie reportedly at an all-time low as the iconic FPS dev investigates stolen assets in Marathon: "The vibes have never been worse"

Bungie runs an hour-long Marathon "PlayMA" with zero gameplay footage while scrubbing the art for plagiarism as the game's art director offers a "personal apology" to the artist whose work was lifted

Bungie's Marathon alpha includes designs lifted from an indie artist without pay: "Clearly my work was good enough to pillage for ideas"

5 months from launch, Marathon devs keep evading pricing questions, but Bungie promises that "it's definitely going to be a conversation"

Any live service game is a risk, but Sony and Bungie are betting Marathon can make extraction shooters bigger: "I do think that the ceiling could rise"

"Marathon will not be a 'full-priced' title": Bungie calms fans' fears around the new extraction shooter's price in a world of $70 and $80 games

Marathon feels like a good extraction shooter, but it's not free-to-play, and I hope Sony and Bungie don't price it into an early grave

Bungie thinks Marathon can coexist with games like Escape from Tarkov and help players get to "the survival storytelling a little bit faster"