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Destiny is alive
Guardians, we have been waiting for this news. Destiny is alive. Say it with me. Destiny is alive. It is not over; it is not going anywhere, and it is coming back. After the goodbye in May, after all the worry about what came next, Bungie has just confirmed it: they are not done with…
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Marathon’s Vault Breaker & The PVE Pivot
On July 21st, Bungie is sending Runners into Cryo Archive for something Marathon has never done before: a mode where you’re not supposed to lose everything. It’s called Vault Breaker. A PVE roguelite dungeon crawl bolted onto the side of an extraction shooter, here for two weeks and gone by August 4th. That’s how Bungie…
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Marathon’s New PVE Mode Changes Everything – Just Not How You Think
Picture Cryo Archive with no other players in it. Just you, the bots, and one of the most beautifully brutal environments Bungie has ever built. That’s what Vault Breaker is offering. And depending on who you ask, it’s either the best thing that’s happened to Marathon since launch — or proof that the game is…
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How to get Cull’s Shadow (Exotic Fusion Rifle) in Destiny 2
Bungie hid one last secret in Destiny 2. Quietly buried under the Moon, waiting for someone to find it. In the Monument of Triumph update, the final update Destiny 2 will ever receive, Bungie dropped a nested chain of exotic missions that culminates in a brand new Weapon of Sorrow: Cull’s Shadow, an exotic fusion…
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Marathon Is Free This Week. Here’s Why You Should Play It.
Marathon is free this week. It is also Bungie’s best work in years — a shooter with gunplay that nothing else in this genre comes close to matching, a sci-fi story worth actually paying attention to, and a Season 2 that takes everything that worked and pushes it somewhere darker and more ambitious. This is…
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Marathon Season 2: NIGHTFALL – Everything That’s New
Season 2 of Marathon is called Nightfall, and the name is not just branding. Bungie are taking this game somewhere genuinely darker — darker in tone, atmosphere, and what it is willing to put in your way. The cinematic trailer dropped this week, and it is one of the more unsettling pieces of marketing for…
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Marathon Update 1.0.9: Five Things You Need to Know
Update 1.0.9 is live, and while the patch notes cover a wide range of fixes and adjustments, not all of them carry equal weight. Some of these changes will affect how you play every single run. Others address long-standing frustrations that the community has been vocal about for weeks. So let’s cut through the noise…
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Marathon’s PVE Pivot
Marathon launched on March 9th with nearly 90,000 players on Steam. Today, it has fewer than 15,000. In April alone, the player count fell by almost 59%. By any metric, Season 1 has been a slow bleed. And yet Bungie aren’t walking away. Instead, they’ve done something fairly unusual for a live service studio: they’ve…
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Walking the Perimeter: Bungie Raises the Floor and the Community Feels It
Marathon just released an update for Marathon that hints at bigger changes than just a new map. The main updates are clear: the Experimental queue is moving from Sponsored Dire Marsh to Sponsored Perimeter, and, more importantly, grey-tier sponsored kits are being retired for the rest of the season. Now, green-sponsored kits are free. The…
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Marathon Update 1.0.6.3: Grenade Nerfs, Better Loot, and a Cleaner Economy
Marathon’s latest patch has landed, and while 1.0.6.3 isn’t the kind of sweeping overhaul that rewrites the rulebook, it’s a focused update that touches some of the game’s most important systems. From a significant shakeup to how grenades work, to meaningful improvements to the C.A.R.R.I. Armoury economy and better rewards for engaging with map events,…
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Marathon’s World Doesn’t Change. It Should.
Marathon boasts a remarkable setting in live service gaming, but struggles to leverage it meaningfully. Completing the Compiler changes nothing. The ship remains static. Unless Bungie starts making the world react to player actions—as they once did in Destiny 2—the allure will quickly fade. The Promise of the Extraction Genre What makes extraction shooters special…
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Marathon Update 1.0.6.2 Is Bigger Than It Looks
After weeks of player frustration around grenade spam, overpowered weapons, Cryo Archive exploits, and the controversial WSTR nerf, Bungie is finally responding directly. And Update 1.0.6.2 may be one of the clearest signs yet that the developers think parts of the game are starting to drift too far into frustration instead of tension. This patch…
