Bungie’s new extraction shooter feels decidedly unwelcoming to newcomers, but for those who persevere, an excellent game is waiting on the other side. Marathon is a tactical, extraction-based PvPvE ...

Extraction shooters are often polarizing, just as much, if not more so, than the battle royale genre. The idea of potentially losing items on a run isn’t exciting to a lot of prospective players, but ...

About three weeks ago, I shared my first impressions of Marathon. After about 15 hours with Bungie's ambitious extraction shooter, I was very pleasantly surprised with the game. Marathon's gunplay and ...

You won't want to rush this.

There’s no denying that Marathon is being held under a microscope at the moment, as for whatever reason, many gamers seem determined to see the game fail. Its Steam player count is watched like a hawk ...

I imagine playing Marathon is a lot like running a marathon. At first glance and from a distance, it looks intimidating. Once you’re up close, you realize it looks that way for a reason: Because it is ...

Three bags of loot, flanked by the bio-synthetic corpses of their previous owners and pools of blue blood. The scene of my murderous victory. Their weapons, implants, heals, and salvage are all mine.

Marathon is a fitting name, as trying to get good at this game feels like just that: A Marathon. Run after run, I started to notice that Marathon does indeed feel like a marathon, and it’s brutal.

From ARC Raiders to Escape From Duckov, extraction shooters seem to be enjoying something of a renaissance right now, to the delight of FPS fans like myself. But of all the newcomers to that space, ...