GTA 6 is not the one large delay of 2025 as Marathon is pushed again to unknown date | Gaming | Entertainment | EUROtoday

First GTA 6 and now Marathon, which has turn out to be the newest high-profile sport to be delayed.

Developed by Bungie for PS5, Xbox Series X|S and PC, Marathon is a player-vs-player extraction shooter initially pencilled in for a September 23 launch.

Unfortunately, nonetheless, the Marathon developer has determined to delay the FPS following damaging fan suggestions from the latest Alpha take a look at.

Even worse is that Marathon does not even have a brand new launch date, with Bungie as an alternative promising to disclose extra this autumn.

According to a Bungie weblog put up, Bungie will maintain extra closed gameplay assessments within the coming months. If you participated within the Alpha, then it is value often checking your electronic mail in case you get an invitation.

“The Alpha test created an opportunity for us to calibrate and focus the game on what will make it uniquely compelling—survival under pressure, mystery and lore around every corner, raid-like endgame challenges, and Bungie’s genre-defining FPS combat,” Bungie explains.

“We’re using this time to empower the team to create the intense, high-stakes experience that a title like Marathon is built around. This means deepening the relationship between the developers and the game’s most important voices: our players.

“Over the following few months, we’ll proceed closed testing (together with individuals from the Alpha) to deploy gameplay updates and take a look at new options as they arrive on-line.”

Bungie has also outlined some of the specific areas it will focus on during the additional development time.

The studio wants to up the survival elements of the game, including creating more challenging and engaging AI encounters, more rewarding runs, complete with better loot and more dynamic events, as well as making combat even more tense and dramatic.

Bungie has also said it will “double down on the Marathon Universe”, which suggests elevated visible constancy, extra narrative and environmental storytelling and a darker tone.

The darker tone will seemingly have extra in frequent with the themes of the unique trilogy of video games.

Finally, the total launch may have extra social experiences, particularly enhancements to solo and duos, in addition to proximity chat.