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Bungie Reveals Marathon Gameplay, Sets September 23 Release Date

Bungie Reveals Marathon Gameplay, Sets September 23 Release Date

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Bungie finally revealed gameplay for its upcoming first-person extraction shooter Marathon on Saturday, sharing more details about the game, including its release date. Marathon will launch on PC, PS5, and Xbox Series S/X on September 23, with a closed alpha playtest scheduled for later this month. In the gameplay showcase, the developer showed off characters, maps, the distinct art style of the game, and more. Marathon Gameplay Reveal Marathon will support cross play and cross saves across Steam, PlayStation, and Xbox, and is now available to wishlist on supported platforms. Bungie presented a gameplay deep dive and shared details about the setting of the online shooter at the gameplay reveal showcase. The team-based extraction shooter is set on the ghost colony on Tau Ceti IV, where teams of three “Runners” complete against rival teams and ai enemies in search of better gear. Bungie describes Runners as cybernetic mercenaries who have given up their human form for biosynthetic shells. Teams that survive will get to keep their loot for future runs on the Tau Ceti IV …

Bungie will compensate an artist after its Destiny 2 Nerf blaster ripped off their work

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When Bungie and Hasbro decided to create a real-life, dart-blasting Nerf version of one of the most famous Destiny 2 guns, someone got lazy — stealing a fan artist’s nine-year-old work instead of creating the Ace of Spades from scratch. To Bungie’s credit, the game company has just announced it will “make sure” to compensate and credit Tofu Rabbit “for their incredible artwork,” after a rapid investigation. As you can see in Tofu’s examples below, this is an incredibly clear-cut case of copying, despite the changes that Bungie or Hasbro’s artists made to the blaster. While one would assume Bungie owns the original underlying blaster design, Tofu was able to show that details from her fanart, down to the brush strokes, were copied. Bungie didn’t offer an explanation to The Verge; Hasbro didn’t immediately reply. But yesterday, Tofu told The Verge that Bungie had already been “polite and encouraging” in private messages, saying she was hopeful the situation could be resolved soon, since Bungie has dealt with similar issues in the past. Indeed, this isn’t …

A jury hands Bungie a victory in a landmark anti-cheating decision

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Yesterday’s jury decision awarded Bungie (PDF) a tidy sum of $63,210. Bungie counsel James Barker said in a statement emailed to The Verge that the company is “committed to our players and will continue to protect them against cheats, including taking this and future cases all the way to trial.” In 2021, Bungie sued AimJunkies and four defendants (here’s a PDF of the complaint), alleging, among other things, that they hacked Destiny 2 to copy the code used to make cheats. Some of Bungie’s complaints — like that AimJunkies violated a DMCA provision forbidding circumvention of copyright protection tech — went to arbitration and saw Bungie winning $4 million. AimJunkies appealed after the judge confirmed that award. That appeal is still in process, as Polygon wrote this week. Phoenix Digital founder David Schaefer will move to dismiss the jury’s verdict and appeal it if necessary, according to Totilo. However that shakes out, the verdict is significant, given that cheating lawsuits tend to conclude in other ways, like settlements. (For example, a judge shut down a Grand …