Marathon Reaffirms March Release Date With February Server Slam | Sony State of Play

After a important hold and a rocky 2025, Bungie shared different look astatine Marathon astatine the February 2026 State of Play, reaffirming its March 5 merchandise day with a weeklong server slam.

The erstwhile Halo developer took to today's presumption to amusement disconnected much of its sci-fi extraction shooter. Those excited to spot however it lives up to the studio's bequest tin hop successful aboriginal arsenic portion of an upcoming server slam, which is scheduled to instrumentality spot from February 26 done March 2.

In a abstracted video, Bungie outlined precisely what the Marathon server slam grants entree to and however participants volition beryllium rewarded. In summation to pre-launch entree to 2 playable zones and six runner shells, players volition beryllium capable to instrumentality connected opening contracts for 5 factions. Progress grants bonus loot astatine launch.

Marathon has been successful a rocky spot, to accidental the least. The crippled was revealed successful May 2023 arsenic a reboot of the classical Bungie franchise, but its improvement has been fraught with aggregate rounds of layoffs and its erstwhile manager being fired pursuing a misconduct investigation. More recently, Bungie had to motorboat a "thorough review" aft it was recovered that Marathon contained artwork from an uncredited artist, a concern that has fans uncertain astir the crippled and studio's future, particularly successful airy of the uphill conflict the extraction shooter genre has to win close now. It was primitively acceptable for a September 23, 2025, but aft alpha trial feedback was pushed indefinitely earlier mounting a caller model of March 2026.

For much from today's show, you tin spot everything announced astatine the February 2026 State of Play.

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