Bungie considers Marathon reboot for 2025, report says

Bungie plans to revive its 1990s seminal sci-fi shooter MarathonAccording to Thursday’s report. According to Insider Gaming, the game is currently in pre-alpha.

Insider Gaming reported that Bungie didn’t confirm the rumor and that a public relations firm declined to comment.

IGN’s 2019 interview with Bungie chief executive Pete Parsons stated that the studio has plans for 2025, which included launching a non-Destiny game in that year. “We need to build our publishing group, but part of our vision also to become a multi-franchise entertainment company,” Parsons said at the time.

Bungie also announced in February 2021 that it would expand its Bellevue headquarters. “The new facility will include a reimagining of its Bellevue studio space to support multiple project teams, including those outside of the Destiny Universe.” Bungie also said it would open its first overseas office in 2022, in Amsterdam.

Marathon, It was launched in 1994 and became a commercial and critical success. So were its two sequels, 1995’s Marathon 2: Durandal (although a version for windows launched one year later) and 1996’s Marathon Infinity. The series launched one year after Id Software’s groundbreaking Doom for MS-DOS and Windows PCs, and was a standard-bearer in Macintosh desktop gaming’s brief heyday from 1995 to 1997.

Players board the Marathon Trilogy’s first boat. UESC MarathonThe enormous Martian space colonization ship, Deimos. There are Marathon an alien race called the Pfhor attacks him and disables him. Durandal, one of three AIs aboard the ship, has been revealed to be able to communicate with and assist the invaders.

Durandal returned to Marathon 2It was sent planetside to another alien race’s homeworld, where it was again taken in InfinityThe third game was titled “Space, Time, and Mind Bending”, which allowed players to travel through the events from the previous two games. Throughout the series, players unraveled the mysteries of the alien aggressors, Durandal’s sentience (and virtual psychosis), and the larger aims of both by reading computer logs and other in-world texts.

Bungie’s close association with Apple thanks to Marathon As well as Myth And OniFamously, he was known as Halo, Combat Evolved’s original reveal at MacWorld 1999. Microsoft purchased Bungie a year later. This made Halo its main franchise on the Xbox. Bungie’s Halo games, which were developed between 2001 and 2010, include numerous references that refer to the Marathon Trilogy.

Bungie split with Microsoft in 2007, formed a publishing arrangement with Activision, and launched in 2010. Destiny It retook complete control in 2014. In 2019, Sony Interactive Entertainment acquired the franchise.