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All the latest Marathon news for 2026: updates, patches, DLC, discounts and events. Fresh game news every day on VGTimes.
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Tim Sweeney has argued that Destiny 2's decline was partly due to Bungie and Sony not embracing generative AI technology. Sweeney suggested that modern AI tools could have dramatically reduced the costs of producing new content, potentially allowing the live-service shooter to remain successful for much longer.
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July 3, 2026

Sony Interactive Entertainment President Hideaki Nishino has confirmed the company will continue to invest in live service games for PlayStation 5 and PC, even after recent setbacks like the closure of Concord and major restructuring at Bungie. In a new interview, Nishino emphasized that Sony remains committed to both supporting existing live service titles and launching new ones over the coming years.
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June 27, 2026

JUSTIN TRUMAN is stepping down as head of Bungie after less than a year in the role, according to multiple media reports. Truman took over as studio head in August 2025, succeeding Pete Parsons during a previous wave of restructuring at the company.
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June 26, 2026

Bungie announced the Vault Breaker PvE mode for Marathon, set to launch on July 21, 2026. This new mode marks a dramatic shift from the game's core extraction shooter formula, offering a raid-like experience on the Cryo Archive map that can be tackled solo or with up to two friends — without the threat of enemy players or losing your gear in firefights.
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June 24, 2026

Xbox Free Play Days runs June 4–7, 2026, offering 11 full games—including Marathon and Descenders—free to Game Pass subscribers on Xbox Series X and S, with discounts available.
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June 5, 2026

Sony changed the Marathon Deluxe Edition store description after players bought it for $14 during a free trial, sparking confusion and refund demands among the community.
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June 5, 2026

Marathon didn’t launch as a runaway hit on the level of Destiny, but new data from Ampere suggests the extraction shooter still managed to attract a solid audience — with its strongest performance coming not on Sony consoles, but on PC.
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May 1, 2026

The main problem in the extraction shooters community now is the attitude towards PvP. The authors of ARC Raiders strive to create a comfortable environment and discourage player aggression. At this time, the game director of Marathon Joe Ziegler compared his game to The Lord of the Rings and called PvE a beginner's game.
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April 28, 2026

Valve has unveiled the most successful Steam releases of March. The list highlights the top 12 highest-grossing titles launched last month, featuring standout hits like The Seven Deadly Sins: Origin.
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April 15, 2026

Bungie Studio released a cinematic video Recon Shell dedicated to Marathon. This is how the developers try to immerse gamers even more into the universe of the game and tell about what is happening on the abandoned colony of Tau Ceti IV.
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April 14, 2026

According to Forbes, the budget of Marathon by Bungie exceeded $200 million — and may have reached as high as $250 million. Importantly, this figure covers development only, excluding the ongoing costs of maintaining and updating a live-service game.
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April 10, 2026

Ben Starr believes Marathon has every chance of becoming Game of the Year. According to him, however, Bungie’s shooter’s main trump card is not its gameplay at all, but the involvement of Jennifer English.
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April 4, 2026

Patch 1.0.5.2 for Marathon removed one of the game’s most spectacular movement tricks. The Thief character could cancel their slide animation by pulling out a grappling device, while preserving all accumulated momentum — effectively allowing players to accelerate endlessly across the map, leaving opponents behind.
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April 1, 2026

The shooter Marathon didn’t launch as strongly as Bungie and Sony had hoped, but the studio has already made it clear — the project isn’t going anywhere. Amid rumors about a possible shutdown, the developers stated that they are “in it for the long haul” and plan to support the game for years.
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March 30, 2026

Marathon gained popularity at launch due to paid reviews on Reddit. A conspiracy theory based on this claim is currently gaining popularity on social media. However, according to Dexerto, it is important to approach such claims with caution.
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March 27, 2026

Analyst Rhyss Elliott from Alinea Analytics estimated Marathon’s sales at 1.2 million copies across PS5, Xbox Series X/S, and PC — and admitted the game “did not create the splash Sony and Bungie were hoping for.” A Bungie employee unofficially confirmed to Forbes that the figures are roughly accurate.
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March 25, 2026

PlayStation 4 support continues to decline. This time, the platform has lost the open-world RPG Tower of Fantasy. The project will be removed from the console four years after the release.
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March 18, 2026

Testing for the Duos mode in Marathon will begin on March 18 at 8:00 PM Moscow time. Until now, Bungie’s extraction shooter only offered matches for solo players and three-person squads.
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March 17, 2026

Ten days after release, Marathon has reached a score of 72 on Metacritic based on 12 reviews — marking the lowest rating for a full Bungie release. The previous low point was held by the original Destiny with 75. For comparison, Halo: Combat Evolved once scored 97.
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March 15, 2026

Sony stopped releasing its exclusives on PC because it fears competition from Steam Machine. This assumption was voiced by Peter Dalton, head of department at the recently closed Bluepoint Games.
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March 13, 2026

Bungie has canceled two technical presentations at GDC 2026, originally scheduled for March 13. Both were dedicated to Marathon.
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March 12, 2026

Players have learned how to turn drones into kamikaze UAVs. It’s still unclear whether this is a bug or a feature.
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March 11, 2026

Marathon has received its first major update — version 1.0.0.4 (Build 22272826). This patch focuses on balance improvements, bug fixes, and prepping the game for upcoming endgame events.
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March 11, 2026

The main platform for Marathon players is Steam, not PlayStation and Xbox consoles. Gameranx writes about this with reference to data from journalist Paul Tassi.
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March 11, 2026

Bungie Studio has decided to increase the number of skins as part of the reward for the first battle pass in Marathon. This happened after the players' dissatisfaction with the initial conditions, according to PC Gamer.
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March 11, 2026

The roguelike card game Slay the Spire 2 is one of the most discussed games of recent days. It turned out that the project attracted the attention of not only hundreds of thousands of gamers, but also the head of the studio developing Palworld. It got to the point where even the staff were outraged by his excessive enthusiasm.
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March 11, 2026

The card roguelike Slay the Spire 2, which was released in early access, topped the rating of the best-selling games on Steam by the end of the week. At the same time, the number of simultaneous players in the game exceeded 570,000.
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March 11, 2026

Everyone who measures the success of a game based on online statistics is an unemployed maidenless behavior. This was stated by the senior designer of Overwatch Dylan Snyder.
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March 11, 2026

Marathon launched on March 5 — and just three days later its user score on Metacritic dropped to 4.5 out of 10. About 57% of the ratings are negative, while only 40% are positive. Players have not held back in their reactions.
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March 8, 2026

On March 5, two major releases arrived on the same day — and the numbers quickly turned the situation into an unexpected story.

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March 7, 2026

Hardware portal GameGPU has published a comprehensive performance analysis for the PC version of Marathon, which launched on March 5. The extraction shooter was tested using Ultra settings at 1080p resolution.
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March 7, 2026

Bungie has asked journalists and reviewers to hold off on publishing full reviews of Marathon until the release of a special endgame location called the Cryo Archive, which is set to arrive in the second half of March. The developers emphasized that this is just a recommendation, not a ban — impressions, streams, and other coverage can be shared right away.
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March 6, 2026

It looks like the previous generation of consoles should be put on the back shelf. The new shooter Marathon may be released on PlayStation 4 and Xbox One, according to Insider Gaming.
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March 6, 2026

It’s only been a couple of hours since the launch of Bungie’s online PvPvE shooter Marathon, but there are already hundreds of reviews on Steam. At the time of writing, the game has a 79% rating.
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March 6, 2026

The online PvPvE shooter Marathon, developed by Bungie (the team behind Destiny 2), has officially launched on PC (Steam), PS5, and Xbox Series X/S. At the time of writing, the game has already surpassed 73,000 concurrent players on Steam—and that number is likely to keep growing.
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March 6, 2026
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