He also promised players that Marathon would continue to grow and improve.
After a rough few months, executives at game studio Bungie have shared some thoughts on the company’s next steps. Poria Torkan, head of Bungie studio, and Josh Deane, product lead and general manager of Marathondiscussed the next steps for the company and its plans in a video and accompanying blog post. Both men discussed how their recent work has fallen short of expectations in different ways, from the limited scope of Marathon or the player’s dissatisfaction with the latest expansions of Destiny 2.
Despite the announcement in May that the team would end active development on Destiny 2 and the news of team layoffs in June, Bungie’s new line is the group saying that “we’re not done with Destiny.” For starters, Bungie will begin relaunching content from Destiny 2 who had been kidnapped. This is a reversal from the strategy adopted in 2020 of sending less popular gameplay and activities to the vault, a move that was not well received by many fans. “We can’t change the decision we made, but we can recognize its impact and do the work to fix it by restoring these important parts of Destiny’s history,” the message read. The team promised that they will work to restore the trust of the Destiny community and will have more information on the efforts over the coming months. One of Bungie’s new core commitments is to “build a stronger, long-term future for Destiny, while honoring and restoring its past.”
When it comes to Marathonthe development team had recently shared its roadmap for the remainder of 2026. The latest blog post doesn’t contain many details on long-term strategy, other than noting more broadly that “we’re going to anchor ourselves on what makes Marathon special but make it evolve beyond the genre constraints we have imposed on it. We will expand Marathon to a deeper survival experience, which gives players more ways to confront this dangerous alien world. » It’s unclear exactly what this will entail.
Given that former studio head Justin Truman resigned over the summer after about a year at the helm, fans will have to see what this new direction has in store. Bungie isn’t the first studio to be publicly accountable to its communities, and it won’t be the last. Hopefully the team will be able to bounce back with aplomb.
