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Bungie's Ambitious Sci-Fi Extraction Shooter Marathon Launches This Year: Here's Everything We Know
12.4.2025
Marathon is looking very much like a colorful cybernetic riff on Escape from Tarkov, but with Bungie’s unique spin-on the extraction shooter genre and hopefully some big surprises along the way. The studio behind Halo and Destiny pulled back the curtain today to reveal a bunch of new information...
Bungie's Sci-Fi Extraction Shooter Marathon Continues To Look Stunning As It Resurfaces Ahead Of Gameplay Showcase
7.4.2025
Marathon is Bungie’s first new project in over a decade. It feels like a lot is riding on the extraction shooter as the studio behind Halo and Destiny becomes slowly subsumed into the larger PlayStation portfolio. But in the meantime, all we know is Marathon continues to be one of...
Marvel Rivals Hit With Layoffs, MrBeast Says Life Is 'Easier When You're Broke,' And More Of The Week's Top News
22.2.2025
This week saw many of the people behind smash hit Marvel Rivals, including the game’s director, get laid off by developer NetEase in a move the company says was made “for organizational reasons and to optimize development efficiency for the game.” Meanwhile Humane, the company behind a $700 AI...
Ex-Bungie Director's Creepy Texts To Female Employees Released By Sony In Ongoing Lawsuit
20.2.2025
Sony is firing back in court in the ongoing lawsuit between Bungie and former Marathon director Christopher Barrett. The Bungie veteran sued the studio in late 2024 after he was fired over alleged misconduct. He called the investigation a “sham” in his lawsuit. Now Sony has responded and published...
Star Wars Skins Are Coming To Destiny 2
28.1.2025
During a Destiny 2 livestream today, developer Bungie announced that it’s adding new Star Wars-themed cosmetic skins and items to the popular free-to-play shooter next month. Read more
God Of War Multiplayer Game And More Canceled Following Concord Flop
17.1.2025
Questions about Sony’s live-service plans continue to mount. The company confirmed two games were canceled at Bend Studio and Bluepoint Games, responding to a report by Bloomberg that the PlayStation 5 maker had canned two projects were part of the company’s ongoing multiplayer push. Neither studio...
The Closest Thing We Have To Destiny: Classic Is Now Cheaper Than Ever
15.11.2024
Ten years later, the original Destiny is still around and kicking, and it won’t cost you much to dip your toes back into the old-school Bungie looter shooter. The price for all of Destiny 1's DLC and expansions in one simple package is currently just $20. Read more
Halo 2's Legendary E3 Level Will Finally Be Playable After 21 Years
4.11.2024
Back in 2003, before Halo 2 launched, Bungie showcased a gameplay demo that featured Master Chief on Earth fighting aliens. This level, known online as Earth City, didn’t ship with the retail game in 2004, as it was a highly scripted demo created for E3. But now, 20 years later, you’ll soon be able...
Bungie Sci-Fi Extraction Shooter Marathon Does Not Sound Ready For 2025
28.10.2024
Marathon was originally supposed to arrive this year. Instead, Bungie’s new sci-fi extraction shooter was delayed until 2025 and still hasn’t reemerged with new gameplay since its initial PlayStation Showcase reveal. At least now, however, we do have a new development update from the project’s...
A Destiny 2 Conspiracy Theory Gets To The Heart Of Its Biggest Loot Problem
24.10.2024
Destiny 2 players are convinced the game is secretly ripping them off. While on its face an epic space opera about humanity confronting cosmic evil in a post-apocalyptic future, Bungie’s sci-fi shooter is also a Pokémon-style collectathon where instead of cute magical creatures, players capture...
Netflix Shutters AAA Game Studio It Built With Former Blizzard, Bungie Devs
22.10.2024
From the moment it was announced that Netflix had hired a team of former Blizzard, Bungie and Sony developers to create a AAA game, it felt too likely that little or nothing would come of it. Non-gaming companies deciding to try to grab a slice of the giant pie by spending money to recruit...
Destiny: Rising Announced For Mobile, From Developers Of Diablo Immortal
14.10.2024
Rumored to have been in development for years in or aroundan increasingly fractured Bungie, Destiny: Rising has been a poorly kept secret for the last couple of months. But now it’s official, with NetEase announcing the mobile game today.Read more
Rival Ex-Disco Elysium Teams Race To Reclaim The Critically Acclaimed RPG's Bungled Legacy
11.10.2024
When Disco Elysium came onto the scene in 2019 it completely shook up RPG storytelling, spearheading new ways to immerse players and build worlds. Surely it was just the start of something new, bold, and exciting. Instead, things got very messy, very quickly. Now, multiple teams made up of former...
Concord Director Steps Down As Studio Behind Historic PlayStation Flop Waits For Sony's Decision
19.9.2024
It’s been two weeks since Sony announced it was taking the unprecedented step of unreleasing Concord and almost as long since the ill-fated, sci-fi hero shooter was officially taken offline. In the time since, Kotaku understands that developers at Firewalk Studios have been in limbo about their...
Destiny’s Loot Is Great Because It Usually Has A Story To Tell
18.9.2024
I really miss Swordbreaker, a shotgun from the first Destiny game that became a staple of my loadout back in the day. Over the three years that I played Destiny, no part of my loadout felt as central to my identity as it did. I changed subclasses depending on the task before me, and I shuffled...
Destiny's Ten-Year Anniversary Event Is Bittersweet
11.9.2024
This week marks the ten-year anniversary of Destiny, a game that accidentally became my whole personality when it launched back in September of 2014. I’ve loved it since the days of its alpha tests and I still love it now, in the form of Destiny 2. Sometimes it’s been hard to love , whether that’s...
Destiny 2 Nerf Gun And Ace Of Spades Ornament Accused Of Plagiarizing 9-Year-Old Fanart
11.9.2024
The Ace of Spades is one of Destiny 2's most iconic weapons, an exotic hand cannon that belonged to Nathan Fillion’s Cayde-6. Bungie recently announced a NERF version of the gun with an orange and black theme that will be matched by an in-game ornament for the gun coming next month. The only...
Bungie Outlines 4 Major Changes For The Future Of Destiny 2
9.9.2024
It’s been a confusing and chaotic year for Destiny 2. There have been delays, multiple rounds of cuts at Bungie, and a constantly shifting content roadmap of what we’ll be rolled out when. The Final Shape capped off 10 years of storytelling in a way that dazzled diehard players, but now everyone’s...
The Internet Reacts To Sony's Unprecedented Unreleasing Of Concord
3.9.2024
If you hadn’t heard the big news of the day, Sony and developer Firewalk Studios are shutting down Concord, the not-Guardians of the Galaxy hero shooter that has been flopping hard since its launch on August 23. The studio seems to be planning some kind of comeback, as the announcement says...
Destiny 2 AFK Farming Has Gotten So Bad, Players Will Be Banned For It Now
19.8.2024
Destiny 2: The Final Shape is a good expansion with one particularly terrible exotic loot chase. The new exotic class items are powerful pieces of RNG gear that can be extremely tedious to chase, which is why lots of players instead rely on AFK macros to farm the loot for them. The epidemic of...