{"id":634611,"date":"2025-12-15T20:29:13","date_gmt":"2025-12-15T20:29:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/634611\/"},"modified":"2025-12-15T20:29:13","modified_gmt":"2025-12-15T20:29:13","slug":"six-months-after-being-delayed-indefinitely-bungies-troubled-marathon-finally-gets-release-window-and-price","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/634611\/","title":{"rendered":"Six months after being delayed indefinitely, Bungie&#8217;s troubled Marathon finally gets release window and price"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#13;<br \/>\nSix month after announcing an indefinite delay for Marathon in response to &#8220;passionate&#8221; community feedback, Bungie has slapped its live-service extraction shooter with a release window and price, confirming it&#8217;ll launch for PlayStation 5 and PC in March next year for \u00a335.&#13;\n<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\nBungie <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/bungie-returns-to-its-roots-with-a-pvp-twist-on-classic-fps-series-marathon\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">formally unveiled its Marathon reboot<\/a> in May 2023, but it wasn&#8217;t until April this year &#8211; following <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/bungies-marathon-reboot-gets-new-director-as-part-of-creative-leadership-shakeup\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">leadership changes<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/sony-responds-to-marathon-reboot-directors-200m-wrongful-dismissal-lawsuit-alleges-disturbing-communications-with-female-employees\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">legal challenges<\/a>, a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/bungie-admits-marathon-includes-artwork-used-without-permission\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">plagiarism scandal<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/bungie-management-vehemently-shut-down-destiny-2-subscription-idea-as-reports-of-toxicity-continue\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">more<\/a> &#8211; that the troubled project finally got its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/bungie-finally-shows-off-marathon-heres-everything-you-need-to-know\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">big reveal<\/a>. Unfortunately, the response was less-than-positive, and a subsequent alpha playtest proved equally divisive. As a result, Bungie revealed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/bungies-marathon-reboot-delayed-indefinitely-in-response-to-passionate-fan-feedback\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Marathon would no longer launch on 23rd September as originally announced<\/a>, and would instead be indefinitely delayed to make improvements.&#13;\n<\/p>\n<p>Marathon &#8211; Bungie ViDoc: Vision of Marathon.<a class=\"video\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4J91kh56jiA\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Watch on YouTube<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\nThere&#8217;s been little concrete news on Marathon&#8217;s progress since then, although Sony chief financial officer Lin Tao did <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/bungies-troubled-extraction-shooter-marathon-still-aiming-for-release-by-march-2026\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reference the title last month<\/a>, revealing it was still set to release within the company&#8217;s current financial year. And Bungie has now <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.playstation.com\/2025\/12\/15\/marathon-vidoc-highlights-the-extraction-shooters-dark-world-and-survival-challenge\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">narrowed that down further<\/a>, confirming the extraction shooter will launch in March 2026. Additionally, it&#8217;ll cost \u00a334.99\/$39.99\/\u20ac39.99 &#8211; the same price as Sony&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/games\/helldivers-2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Helldivers 2<\/a> and its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/sony-shuts-down-concord-developer-firewalk-studios-game-will-remain-permanently-offline\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ill-fated shooter Concord<\/a>.&#13;\n<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\nConfirmation of Marathon&#8217;s release window was accompanied by a new <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4J91kh56jiA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">20-minute gameplay breakdown<\/a>, with Bungie outlining a number of enhancements made since April&#8217;s divisive play test. These include improvements to visual fidelity, proximity chat, a Solo Runner queue, and a &#8220;solo scavenger experience&#8221; titled Rook. &#13;\n<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#8220;Whether you were with us back in April for our first Alpha or you&#8217;re just joining us now,&#8221; Bungie wrote on the PlayStation Blog, &#8220;there&#8217;s a rich world full of lore and loot for you to discover when your cybernetic biosynthetic shell takes its first steps into our new world.&#8221;&#13;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; Six month after announcing an indefinite delay for Marathon in response to &#8220;passionate&#8221; community feedback, Bungie has&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":634612,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[53,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-634611","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-technology","8":"tag-technology","9":"tag-uk","10":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115725478418617985","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/634611","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=634611"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/634611\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/634612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=634611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=634611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=634611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}