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"Nobody's reinventing the wheel" with Marathon's mechanics, says former art boss, so the visual design needed to take risks
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"Nobody's reinventing the wheel" with Marathon's mechanics, says former art boss, so the visual design needed to take risks

Marathon's franchise art director Joseph Cross left Bungie in December, shortly after the Destiny developers announced a March 2026 release window for the sci-fi shooter reboot. Now, he’s talking about what it was like to work on the game, which has a fair bit of lingering negative press to contend with – extended delays, mass studio layoffs and restructuring, repeated accusations of plagiarism, money troubles owing to Bungie’s ailing shooter Destiny 2, and apathy about blockb

All MIO bosses and how to beat them
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All MIO bosses and how to beat them

It's a Metroidvania, so of course there are plenty of tough MIO bosses to take down, some even hiding important items and abilities.

Find out if you can run a Marathon with the extraction shooter's system requirements
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Find out if you can run a Marathon with the extraction shooter's system requirements

Following such recent news highlights as "It’s out on March 5th" and "It’s got that Ben Starr guy in it," Marathon’s announce-o-blaster continues firing with a newly unveiled set of PC system requirements. As seen on the Bungie FPS’s Steam page, they’re nicely accommodating to cheapo rigs and older tech, though are missing any storage requirements. Read more

I knew I'd enjoy Rubato's demo from the moment the Earth blew up and I fell in the toilet
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I knew I'd enjoy Rubato's demo from the moment the Earth blew up and I fell in the toilet

Rubato is "an experimental, 2D physics-based take on the collect-a-thon genre", according to developer dconn, which doesn't really do justice to the below trailer full of screaming skulls and mode7 first-person driving bits and fleeting Minecraft references and PS1-era dancefloors. I guess I'm too used to the watering down of "experimental" as a descriptor. The blurb doesn't even communicate that you play as a frog. Seemingly. Fortunately, there is a demo. Please watch the trailer while I go p