Bungie's reportedly troubled FPS Marathon breaks 18 months of silence with a vague update from its game director: "We do this all for you"

Concept art shows a Marathon character standing behind blue smoke.
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澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Marathon, Bungie's upcoming revival of the 1994 FPS, seemed like it could disappear after 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:serious layoffs plagued its developer. But, despite the sci-fi extraction shooter's Twitter laying ℱdormant for 18 months, director Joe Ziegler assures fans that Marathon is alive and well.

"In 2025, we're going to be expanding our playtests a little bit wider and wider," he says. "We'll definitely let you know 🥀when that happens." 

That last line summarizes the tenor of Ziegler's video, which feels, for the most part, purposefully vague. Ziegler emphasizes that Marathon will have "a ton of loot that you can find," as well as "weapons" and "equipment [...] that changes your stats." Cool! It sounds like Bungie's Marathon reboot was heavily inspi🐻red by The Division, or Hunt: Showdown, or Borderlands, or Call of Duty, or Luigi's Mansion. 

"There's also consumables that♔ help you sort of heal ♔yourself," Ziegler helpfully adds. 

I'm assuming these aren't the impressive updates Bungie fans were hoping to receive after more than a yea♋r of quiet, but Ziegler at least manages to offer a few details on Marathon's production sta🐎tus. Sort of.

"There's a variety of different things at different states inside of the game," he says. "Our environments are starting to come together in a really, really beautiful way. Some of the character models we've been iterating through, so they're coming together, but they're not fully🔴 there yet. [...] It's a little early♔ to show you all of it as one piece."

Ziegleღr is able to share the codenames for two of Marathon's playable characters, 𝐆or runners: Thief and Stealth, and he suggests that both of these characters will be sneaky, much like Bungie itself when sharing news about Marathon. 

In any case, Ziegler is grat♍eful for fans' 💧patience. 

"Our goal is ultimately to make a game that all of you feel like is worth 💧spending your time [on], he says. "Thank you all for actually following us, and we do this all for you." 

Datamined Destiny 2 files namedrop Marathon pre-orders, spurring speculation that Bungie's FPS reboot could rear its head soon.

Ashley is a Senior Writeꦺr 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.