2025

Bungie’s taking a crack at the extraction shooter genre and so can you when the Marathon alpha test opens up later this month. Official launch day for Marathon isn’t until September this year, but it will be running an alpha and beta test before that. From what we’ve played so far, it’s all that Bungie…

Bungie is finally opening up about Marathon, its shiny new extraction shooter that’s been under wraps since 2023. This is the legendary FPS studio’s first new game in eight years, its first non-Destiny project since the Halo days, and a reimagining of a series that’s laid dormant since the ’90s, so the collective hobby is…

We all have that moment when our eyes are opened to the hijinks made possible by proximity chat. For me, it was the night some guy in DayZ drove a truck through the town I was looting while screaming at the top of his lungs, the volume gradually rising and falling as he disappeared over…

After all the cryptic teasers, brutal layoffs, and a thrilling, somewhat messy, not-quite conclusion to the story of Destiny 2, Bungie today finally laid its cards on the table with a livestream gameplay reveal of Marathon, its upcoming extraction shooter that continues the story of its mind-bending Doom-era series of Mac FPSes. For the full…

Bungie isn’t ready to retire its ’90s sci-fi FPS series, Marathon, just yet. The last game in its original trilogy released in 1996, but the Destiny and Halo studio hasn’t forgotten its roots and announced a new Marathon game almost two years ago. Exciting stuff for gamers of yore, but go ahead and set some…

Here’s the easy part: Marathon is an extraction shooter in which crews of three runners race against the clock, using 3D-printed cybernetic bodies to strip resources from a mysteriously abandoned colony on Tau Ceti IV. In your way stand teams of rival runners, robot forces left behind by the colony’s owner, the Unified Earth Space…

Bungie finished today’s Marathon gameplay reveal stream with a surprise treat: An eight-minute animation that sets the scene for the game’s lore, and specifically how brutal life is for runners seeking to make their fortune on Tau Ceti IV. Or, more specifically, their frequent, repeated deaths. I actually saw the short just over a week…

Survival-action shooter Atomfall has lured more than two million players into its post-nuclear-disaster Britain, and they’ve apparently drunk 500,000 cups of tea while there. Which is not enough. Those are rookie numbers in the British tea drinking game. We need those numbers up to like three per person just to make average. That’s 6,000,000 cups…