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Variety Hours @ Shacknews: Visiting Bungie's roots in Marathon (1994)

With Bungie making moves with its new Marathon title, now might be a good time to revisit the classics.

Sam Chandler

April 4, 2025 12:00 PM

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Welcome to another episode of Variety Hours @ Shacknews. After spending countless weeks playing Black Myth: Wukong, I’m ready to dive into another game. We played some of The Finals the past two weeks, but today it’s time for Bungie’s 1994 game, Marathon.

This Marathon (1994) livestream is scheduled to begin at 3:00 p.m. PT / 6:00 p.m. ET on April 4, 2025 over on the Shacknews Twitch channel. I’ve never played the first Marathon before (or the rest of the trilogy outside of a stint in Durandal), so I don’t really know what I’m in for other than a classic sci-fi FPS title. Should be fun!

The reason for the Marathon play session is that Bungie has been dropping more Marathon teasers over the past day or so. It’s been a bunch of mysterious imagery, but considering it’s launching Marathon “soon,” it’s kind of the ideal time to dive into the original trilogy and get acquainted with the background lore.

While the upcoming game is an extraction shooter, it’ll be good to have a deeper understanding of the Marathon universe. If you want a deeper understanding of the Shacknews universe, you can do so by checking out our Shacknews YouTube channel. We’ve got a lot of excellent Nintendo Switch 2 coverage that just went live, so go and check it out! Also, did you see we announced Shackmaps? It’s the best interactive video game map tool on the internet. Check it out and then come and say hello to me on today’s livestream.

Sam Chandler

Head of Guides

Hailing from the land down under, Sam Chandler brings a bit of the southern hemisphere flair to his work. After bouncing round a few universities, securing a bachelor degree, and entering the video game industry, he's found his new family here at Shacknews as Head of Guides. There's nothing he loves more than crafting a guide that will help someone. If you need help with a guide, or notice something not quite right, you can message him on X: @SamuelChandler