Marathon UI designer declares himself the ‘fontslop merchant’ and promises Bungie will never ‘remove the SAUCE from the UI’

Last week, one of the most circulated reactions to the Marathon server slam was a YouTuber who took one look at the menus and declared it the first ever “fontslop” game. He wasn’t the only one who felt their eyes were assaulted by Marathon’s unorthodox graphic design. UI feedback was one of Bungie’s major takeaways…

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The Marathon server slam consumed my weekend: 21 hours later, I’ve gone from ‘meh’ to believer

It was around this time last year when Embark and Bungie both ran playtests for their new extraction shooters at the same time. Marathon’s alpha was the culmination of two years of feverish speculation about the legendary FPS studio’s first non-Destiny project in over 15 years. Then the unexpected happened: Arc Raiders upstaged Marathon. Embark…

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