Bungie's marathon finally comes out of the shadows and laughs…
Blog Andrew Joseph 04 Apr , 2025 0
remember marathon? This is the next game for Destiny developer Bungie, and it looks like we will finally see more.
The marathon is a PVP-focused extractive shooting game located on the mysterious planet of Tau Ceti IV. Players live in the bodies of runners, mercenaries, designed to survive in the harsh environments on Earth, exploring the lost colonies that once lived on the surface of Tau Ceti.
It's been a while since we've seen or heard about marathons. October, Bungie releases long development updates video This reveals the mechanism of the marathonbut emphasizes the development time of the game. At that time, the player character models were still “coming together” while the enemy models were still in “early state”.
But now, half a year later, it seems that Bungie is finally ready to reveal what it is doing. A tweet from the official marathon account below reveals typical implicit images and accompanying garbled signal noise. Fans noticed that the first marathon trailer contains ASCII art. Given that we're talking about Bungie, a developer known for its mysterious trailer, hidden clues and Easter eggs, there's probably more to discover here, Fans are already trying to figure out what it means.
Either way, after a difficult development, the marathon finally happened.
– Marathon (@marathonthegame) April 4, 2025
Marathon revealed in May 2023 As a restart Classic Bungie franchisebut all the themes are “mystery, creepy and psychological creepy”. But Bungie itself has suffered some controversy in recent years, headlines Leaked 220 employeesmeaning 17% of the workforce in July 2024: Even industry peers have been criticized.
This is here Less than a year after the rest of Bungie's 100 layoffsthen Staff tells IGN the atmosphere is “frustrated” in the studio.
Report released weeks after 220 job loss charges published further controversy Former marathon director Chris Barrett is fired after internal misconduct investigation In Bangji. Barrett then sued Sony Interactive Entertainment and Bonji for over $200 million.
It's all with Sony reconsidering its focus on live service games. Sony President Hiroki Totoki said in November 2023 The company is committed to launching 6 of the 12 live service games it is developing By March 2026, strategic changes See our last multiplayer cancellation.
Although Arrowhead's Helldivers 2 took a groundbreaking blow, the fastest PlayStation Studios game ever, selling 12 million copies in just 12 weeks, Sony's other live service games were cancelled or suffered a disastrous launch.
Indeed, Sony's Concord was one of the biggest video game disasters in PlayStation history, and lasted for weeks after the low number of players shouting out loud. Sony later decided to kill the game completely and shut down the developers.
Earlier this year Sony reportedly canceled two unannounced live service gamesone is the title of God of War developed in Sapphire, and the other is in the work of developer Bend.
Wesley is the UK news editor for IGN. Find him on Twitter via @wyp100. You can reach Wesley via [email protected] or secretly visit [email protected].
