It has been about six months since Bungie said anything about Marathon, the extraction shooter version of what is otherwise a series of single-player FPS games that have nothing to do with extraction. As a review: The game was first announced back in May 2023, followed by the studio trying to stir up hype via ARG ciphers for players to crack, but then things got dire for the company as layoffs cast a dark pall over developers.
It would seem as if Bungie is back on its ARG train once again, as yesterday saw the game’s Twitter account surge back to life with vague ASCII animations, some sort of hacking attempt of some orbital infrastructure, and most recently, a garbled transmission urging people to “decrypt decrypt decrypt” and “rise rise rise.” The account also reposted an image from art director Joseph Cross.
That recent video, by the way, promises that, “The signal is coming. The truth is coming. Are you ready?” which reads a lot like some major reveal about the game is on the horizon from Bungie. In the meantime, fans will just have to watch, wait, and let the studio get the gobbledygook out of its system once again.
— Marathon (@MarathonTheGame) April 4, 2025
