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After a rocky six years, Sony cancels future single-player PC game releases

Finally, Bloomberg’s sources cautioned that Sony’s strategy for single-player releases could change again at some point in the future.

Historically, Sony did not release its first-party games on PCs. That began to change in 2020, and the company has put out titles like Horizon Zero Dawn, Helldivers 2, and Ghost of Tsushima on PCs, among others. Sony’s PC launch experiments haven’t been without confusion or drama, however.

The company was inconsistent about which titles reached the platform and about the timelines for those releases. Single-player titles hit Steam months or even years after their console releases, long after the gaming community buzz around them had died down.

Further, some titles required players sign in to a PlayStation account to access core features, which wasn’t a popular choice with everyone, and the back-and-forth on that policy felt chaotic to many players.

Sony has been less decisive about its PC strategy compared to the other two major console manufacturers. Nintendo simply does not release its games on PC at all, while Microsoft has released all of its first-party Xbox titles on PC.

Bloomberg also notes that some recent releases have not sold as well on PC as hoped, suggesting that Sony’s test-the-waters approach has found said water lukewarm.

The first new Marathon game in decades will launch on March 5

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It’s been nearly three years now since Destiny maker (and Sony subsidiary) Bungie formally announced a revival of the storied Marathon FPS franchise. And it has been about seven months since the game’s original announced release date of September 23, 2025 was pushed back indefinitely after a reportedly poor response to the game’s first Alpha test.

But today, in a post on the PlayStation Blog, Bungie revealed that the new Marathon would finally be hitting PS5, Windows, and Xbox Series X|S on March 5, narrowing down the month-long March release window announced back in December.

Today’s pre-rder trailer revealing the Marathon release date.

Unlike Destiny 2, which transitioned to a free-to-play model in 2019, the new Marathon sells for $40 in a Standard Edition or a $60 Deluxe Edition that includes some digital rewards and cosmetics. That mirrors the pricing of the somewhat similar Arc Raiders, which recently hit 12 million sales in less than 12 weeks.

A new kind of Marathon

Unlike the original Marathon trilogy on the ’90s Macintosh—which closely followed on the single-player campaign corridors and deathmatch multiplayer of the original Doom—the new Marathon is described as a “PvPvE survival extraction shooter.” That means gameplay based around exploring distinct zones and scavenging for cosmetics and gear upgrades in exploratory missions alone or with up to two friends, then seeing those missions “break into fast-paced PvP combat” at a moment’s notice, according to the game’s official description.

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