Datamined Destiny 2 files namedrop Marathon pre-orders, spurring speculation that Bungie's FPS reboot could rear its head soon
Oct. 11, 2024External Marathon playtests were also underway just last week
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Datamined Destiny 2 files seemingly hint that pre-orders for Marathon,Bungie’s next shooter, are coming sooner than you might expect.
Bungie announced that it was rebootingMarathon, the ’90s series that predates even Halo, last summer, and it’s been very tight-lipped about the extraction shooter ever since aside froma secret trailerthat confirmed we wouldn’t hear anything else for a really long time. Prophecy fulfilled, I guess.
But Destiny 2’s new update reportedly features clues about what to expect next. Dataminers began digging through Destiny 2’s innards recently for hints about what’s coming up in the evergreen looter shooter - though what they instead found was what’s next for the studio.The Game Postreports that a text string called ‘v820.offers.entitlement.d2.marathon.preorder’ was datamined, obviously spurring speculation.
Adding more fuel to the theory is the fact thatBungie recently invited several streamers and content creators to the studio- many of whom were in town for the Halo World Championship Series - specifically to play the new Marathon reboot. That isn’t confirmation that any new news is incoming right now; more a sign that development is powering ahead, despite a reportedlyrough production cyclebehind the scenes.
Bungie’s Marathon looks the part, but do we really need another extraction shooter?
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