Ethan Gach

1 week ago | kotaku.com | Ethan Gach

Marathon is Bungie’s next big multiplayer blockbuster and its first live service launch as part of PlayStation. The extraction shooter hails from a genre that’s never been for the faint of heart but from a big-budget studio that doesn’t do anything on the cheap. So how much will Marathon cost when it comes out in the fall? Bungie isn’t saying, yet.

1 week ago | kotaku.com | Ethan Gach

We finally have our first look at Marathon’s gameplay and it looks just as clean and techwear-infused as the game’s original PlayStation teaser suggested. During a showcase for the sci-fi extraction shooter today, Bungie provided an overview of how its PvPvE multiplayer matches will work, as well as the larger story propelling its characters through a grim but hopefully fun looter shooter loop about corporate contracts, a mysterious planet, and the fraying humanity of those paid to pillage it.

1 week ago | kotaku.com | Ethan Gach

Marathon is looking very much like a colorful cybernetic riff on Escape from Tarkov, but with Bungie’s unique spin-on the extraction shooter genre and hopefully some big surprises along the way. The studio behind Halo and Destiny pulled back the curtain today to reveal a bunch of new information about its next big game, including that it’s out later this year. Will be it be Destiny PvP reskinned into an even more hardcore mode, or something that feels both more fresh and more approachable?

1 week ago | kotaku.com | Zack Zwiezen |Ethan Gach |Carolyn Petit |Austin Williams

Last month, I bought EA Sports College Football 25 for the low, low price of $15. It released back in July and ultimately became 2024’s second-highest selling game in the U.S. I was slow to the party, though, as I had never played the original NCAA Football games, meaning I was decidedly less geeked for the series’ reboot. But since I scooped it on sale, CFB has quickly replaced Madden as my favorite sports franchise—this became apparent to me last night, around my 141st hour of play time.

1 week ago | kotaku.com | Ethan Gach

I wake up in a metallic corridor harassed by little cyborg creatures that effortlessly go splat when I pull the trigger. A voice in my head rambles about death, civilization, and the violent heist I’ve been tasked to help with. After every grisly death, my synthetic body is reborn. A sprawling, AI-controlled city stretches out in front of me, like an ultra-advanced, grimly efficient panopticon situated galaxies away at the end of history.