{"id":347641,"date":"2025-12-15T22:40:12","date_gmt":"2025-12-15T22:40:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/347641\/"},"modified":"2025-12-15T22:40:12","modified_gmt":"2025-12-15T22:40:12","slug":"bungies-delayed-shooter-marathon-launches-in-march","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/347641\/","title":{"rendered":"Bungie\u2019s delayed shooter Marathon launches in March"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">Bungie\u2019s Marathon, its upcoming extraction shooter that it delayed from a planned September release, will now launch in March 2026. The studio is \u201ctargeting\u201d a price of $39.99, and \u201cpurchasing Marathon will give you full access to the game, including a roadmap of free gameplay updates as the year progresses,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bungie.net\/7\/en\/News\/Article\/marathonvidoc\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">according to a blog post<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">Bungie delayed Marathon in June <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/news\/688479\/bungie-marathon-delay-sony\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">after alpha test feedback<\/a>, and since alpha, the studio has added features like proximity chat and solo queue. \u201cSince the Alpha playtest in April, we\u2019ve been quietly iterating on Marathon alongside a dedicated community of players,\u201d Bungie says. \u201cEvery closed playtest was a chance for us to hear candid feedback about what\u2019s working, what needs work, and where Marathon can shine.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">To prevent FOMO, the game\u2019s \u201cRewards Passes\u201d won\u2019t expire and you\u2019ll be able to buy past passes. Bungie is also promising that \u201cwe believe in preserving competitive integrity in Marathon, so survival will never come down to how much money you spend.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bungie\u2019s Marathon, its upcoming extraction shooter that it delayed from a planned September release, will now launch in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":347642,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[49,48,75,874,44,61],"class_list":["post-347641","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-entertainment","tag-gaming","tag-news","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347641","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=347641"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347641\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/347642"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=347641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=347641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=347641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}