Two Years Later, Bungie Is Ready To Reveal Marathon Gameplay This Week

Bungie is about to lastly reveal what enjoying Marathon, an extraction-shooter revival of Bungie’s sci-fi FPS collection, can be like. A gameplay reveal showcase is slated for April 12 at 10 AM PT / 1 PM ET.

Marathon’s social media accounts sparked to life prior to now week, pointing to an ARG (alternate actuality recreation) that led to on-line sleuthing for puzzle options and secrets and techniques, within the course of unveiling new paintings for the sport and presumably serving to to unlock Bungie’s official announcement of the gameplay showcase.

Bungie’s subsequent recreation was introduced two years in the past with a trendy trailer however few particulars apart from it might be an extraction shooter set in the identical universe of Bungie’s outdated, pre-Halo IP that ended with Marathon Infinity in 1996. Marathon is Bungie’s first new recreation for the reason that launch of Future 2 in 2017, although Future has acquired common updates and expansions since then.

Followers nonetheless do not have many official particulars of what enjoying Marathon will entail other than the standard extraction style staples of competing in opposition to different groups to make it out alive with a bag of treasured loot (although a short teaser clip for the gameplay reveal does embrace a pink robotic cat). Bungie offered a detail-light replace in October 2024 that hinted Marathon could be bringing a hero shooter method to the style, implying a few of what some “Runners” (Marathon’s title for participant characters) would be capable of do. A report from across the similar time indicated Marathon could be $40 and never free-to-play, however it’s unclear if that’s nonetheless Bungie’s plan or if plans have modified.

Marathon acquired a brand new recreation director, Joe Ziegler, in late 2023 following layoffs at Bungie. He beforehand labored at Riot on its common free-to-play shooter Valorant. The sport’s outdated director, Chris Barrett, was reportedly let go from Bungie for alleged misconduct in direction of girls coworkers, and is now suing Bungie and mum or dad firm Sony alleging he was fired with out trigger. One other spherical of layoffs at Bungie, which affected 220 folks, occurred in July 2024 following the discharge of Future 2: The Last Form.

Marathon is about to launch on PlayStation 5, Xbox Collection X|S, and PC, however doesn’t have an official launch date or window simply but. Little question extra info can be revealed on the Marathon gameplay showcase, so followers will not have to attend lengthy for extra information.