Marathon (PC/PS5/XSX) - Plagiarism Extraction Shooter - March 5, 2026

[Qalbert]

Eh, I don't think the pitch is "another pvp shooter" the pitch is a AAA extraction shooter. Kinda like how we saw several AAA endeavor to try their hand at the hero shooter and then the battle royale (shooter).

speaking of which, and sorry to derail, idr if it was mentioned elsewhere but Ubi is allegedly working on a BR heavily inspired by Apex (to the point of similar characters) which feels both laughably late and out of touch, but par for the course for Ubi

[Qalbert]

[Cail]

i got in the alpha woo

[Qalbert]

nice, keep us updated

[6souls]

The tutorial went live for all Xbox players.

[6souls]

https://x.com/MarathonTheGame/status...95344167620778

[Cail]

wish i could be playing, but at work all day today and til tomorrow at 4p =(

[6souls]

R.I.P. servers

There was a message saying servers were being throttled and players were temporarily disconnected. I'm watching Byf's stream and his game crashed just after a public event ended.

[Cail]

having a lot of fun...just had a match where we ran into 3 different player teams...was wild lol

[6souls]

https://x.com/MarathonTheGame/status...72471812165873

[Obsidian]

Bungie sure does accidentally steal art from artists often. Weird.

https://twitter.com/4nt1r34l/status/1923067988871147605

[6souls]

The entire atheistic 1:1, even left sample text in game.

[Bombur]

It kind of funny when you look at the history of Joseph Cross (Art Director of Marathon) on Twitter. He started following this guys twitter account around 4 years ago, and this happens...lol

[Obsidian]

The entire atheistic 1:1, even left sample text in game.

The artist's signature is still on every piece in the actual game, lol.

Just brutal.

Edit: Also their dev livestream is tomorrow so I'm sure that's gonna be fun and not awkward at all.

[6souls]

It was delayed from the 8th. Bet they would love to reclaim that time.

[Obsidian]

The cherry on top is they're going to sell a Marathon artbook.

[NotGreyheim]

Bungie sure does accidentally steal art from artists often. Weird.

https://twitter.com/4nt1r34l/status/1923067988871147605

Mother of god...

[Bombur]

This is beyond just these assets though, the entire art direction of the game is a giant rip off of this guys portfolio. If proven in a court of law, Bungie could be lible for like 100's of millions.

This is worst case of plagiarism, that I have seen in a long time. This would be a gold mine for a law firm to take the case.

[6souls]

This is beyond just these assets though, the entire art direction of the game is a giant rip off of this guys portfolio. If proven in a court of law, Bungie could be lible for like 100's of millions.

This is worst case of plagiarism, that I have seen in a long time. This would be a gold mine for a law firm to take the case.

I'm sure this is going to affect the Red War lawsuit. As for this, unless an attorney plans to work pro Bono, she has stated that she doesn't have the money to bring a legal case against Bungie.

[Obsidian]

This is beyond just these assets though, the entire art direction of the game is a giant rip off of this guys portfolio. If proven in a court of law, Bungie could be lible for like 100's of millions.

This is worst case of plagiarism, that I have seen in a long time. This would be a gold mine for a law firm to take the case.

It's not even just the straight up stolen graphics, another person who was part of the project the affected artist worked on points out that their teaser videos are very similar cinematography to work they did for the Antireal project.

https://x.com/Billain/status/1923103678686232691

Also, bungie has responded (to the specific artworks stolen, not the broader theme of "inspiration"). In classic bungie fashion, they're throwing someone who doesn't (directly) work for them (anymore) under the bus.

https://x.com/MarathonDevTeam/status...17324384903262