Marathon Release Times Confirmed

Following galore delays, Bungie's Marathon is astir here, releasing connected PC (via Steam), PS5, and Xbox Series X/S connected March 5 aft a palmy "Server Slam" beta trial implicit the weekend. It's Bungie's archetypal caller crippled since it released Destiny 2 successful 2018.

A PvP-focused extraction shooter acceptable connected the mysterious satellite of Tau Ceti IV, Marathon sees players inhabit the bodies of Runners, cybernetic mercenaries who person been designed to past the planet’s harsh environments, exploring the mislaid colony that erstwhile inhabited Tau Ceti’s surface.

In our Marathon review-in-progress, we wrote: "The Server Slam unsocial doesn’t overgarment a afloat picture, but moving my mode to quality fertile 30 was a truly promising glimpse astatine the archetypal agelong of progression successful what looks to beryllium rather an aggravated ascent to the endgame.

"I’ll beryllium diving heavy into each facet of Marathon astatine its afloat motorboat and beryllium backmost with a last reappraisal erstwhile I’ve seen what the aboriginal fractional of that acquisition feels similar – immoderate of which is being held down planned updates successful a mates of weeks. But astatine slightest close now, I’m feeling highly bully astir the chances of this becoming my adjacent obsession."

Bungie precocious revealed what to expect from Marathon astatine motorboat and confirmed plans for seasonal wipes, which means each players suffer their cogwheel each fewer months, bringing a "clean slate for the full community" each session. Players volition support their achievements, cosmetics, titles, and different rewards, arsenic good arsenic their Codex progression.

Marathon merchandise times

Depending connected wherever you are successful the world, Marathon is acceptable to spell unrecorded connected each platforms astatine the pursuing times:

Thursday, March 5, 2026:

PST (San Francisco):

• 10am

CST (Austin, Mexico City):

• 12pm

EST (New York):

• 1pm

GMT (London):

• 6pm

CET (Paris):

• 7pm

Friday, March 6, 2026

JST (Tokyo):

• 3am

CST (Beijing):

• 3am

AEST (Sydney):

• 5am

NZST (Wellington):

• 7am

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