After a pretty abysmal live stream where Bungie defeatedly confirmed that one of its developers had lifted the work of another artist and put it in its new shooter , Marathon, without permission, attribution, or compensation, you could practically taste the delay announcement incoming. A sudden lack of any marketing for Marathon further pushed the rumour of a delay, and a month later, by June 2025, it was official .

Since then, we've not seen hide nor hair of Marathon (though Bungie has been active with new Destiny 2 content ), and you would absolutely not be the first to have speculated that the game was never going to come back. Not so, it would seem. Bungie proved, at least to some degree, that Marathon is not dead, and has opened a new round of sign-ups for a Closed Technical

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