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Sony has scrapped Fairgames, a live-service shooter from Haven Studios, following a test period in which player feedback and retention fell short of internal targets. An executive memo cited by Bloomberg also pointed to difficult market conditions for PVP shooters. No layoffs will result; Haven Studios staff will be redirected to support other PlayStation studios.
The New York City Marathon will take place on Sunday, November 1, 2026, drawing runners through all five boroughs of New York City. Coverage will include live broadcasts, runner tracking tools, and a route map to help spectators and participants follow the race.
New York City's Halloween parade, expected to draw 80,000 costumed participants and 2 million spectators, will end just eight hours before the TCS New York City Marathon begins with 60,000 runners and 2.5 million spectators. The Department of Sanitation will deploy hundreds of trucks and workers overnight to clean and prepare city streets for the marathon, even though the two events' routes do not overlap.
Nike has designed a new finisher's medal for its 2026 After Dark Tour, a nighttime series of women's 10K and half-marathon races. The medal is built as a multipurpose accessory that runners can wear afterward as a necklace, bracelet, keychain loop, or belt chain rather than storing it away.
Developers working on the Marathon Recompiled project examined Sonic 06's rendering engine and found that many visual effects seen in beta footage, such as bump mapping in Kingdom Valley and complex geometry in Castle Town, were never fully removed from the game's code. Instead, these features exist in the game's Terrain and Billboard shader systems but were disabled in numbered variants, likely to help the game hit playable frame rates on hardware at launch.
Bungie outlined new content coming to its extraction shooter Marathon, including a December 'Symbiosis' update adding team deathmatch, a permanent PvE mode, a revamped Perimeter zone with a new Tick Queen boss, a new 'Bishop' shell, and a social space with a firing range. The studio also previewed a larger, unnamed March 2027 update that will add interconnected PvE/PvP/PvEvP modes, a new zone, new enemies, deeper shell progression, and more narrative content.
Researchers at KAIST demonstrated a quadruped robot, Raibo2, running the full 42.195km marathon distance in 4 hours, 19 minutes and 52 seconds without recharging or swapping its battery. The team says this is the first time a legged robot has completed a marathon-length run on one charge, achieved through energy-efficient mechanical design and a learned control policy for locomotion.
Bungie leadership, including studio head Poria Torkan and Marathon product lead Josh Deane, released a blog post and video stating the studio remains committed to Destiny despite ending active development and recent layoffs. The company said it will begin restoring previously vaulted Destiny 2 content that fans had lost access to since 2020, aiming to rebuild trust with the community. They also gave a vague update on Marathon, saying it will evolve into a deeper survival experience beyond its current genre limits.
Retailers are discounting several Garmin smartwatch models early as part of pre-Labor Day promotions, according to a roundup from ZDNET. The deals target fitness-focused buyers, including those training for marathons, looking to save on GPS running watches before the official holiday sales period begins.