Former Halo Infinite multiplayer lead gets ready to run a Marathon

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Bungie’s upcoming extraction shooter Marathon has apparently added Halo Infinite’s multiplayer result in its group.


Andrew Witts, the previous lead of multiplayer on Halo Infinite, with different titles like Fortnite and Rainbow Six Siege below his belt, introduced final week that he has joined Bungie because the gameplay design director on Marathon. “I am excited to share that I’ve accomplished my first week at Bungie!” wrote Witts on his private Twitter. “I can be becoming a member of Marathon as Gameplay Design Director. Everybody has been so welcoming and sort. I’m thrilled to work with this good and extremely proficient group.”



Witts has been working as a recreation designer within the business for 10 years, beginning as a recreation design intern at Ubisoft, later working as an outright designer on Rainbow Six Siege for 2 years. He additionally labored at LawBreakers developer Boss Key Productions as a senior recreation designer, in addition to serving as a lead gameplay designer at Epic Video games, each for a yr every.


Marathon was introduced throughout PlayStation’s Could showcase, marking it as Bungie’s first PS5 and PC PlayStation Studios recreation. It is also the developer’s first new recreation since Future, although it is not a brand new IP, as a substitute being what appears to be like extra like a reimagining of certainly one of its older IPs.


The unique Marathon was a first-person shooter launched in 1994, a sci-fi recreation set a number of centuries into the longer term. Whereas the brand new tackle Marathon is hanging onto that sci-fi vibe, it would apparently be an extraction shooter that “will discover gamers partaking each other as cybernetic mercenaries referred to as Runners, exploring a misplaced colony on the planet of Tau Ceti IV looking for riches, fame, and infamy.”


Not a lot else is understood about Marathon at this cut-off date, the reveal was solely a cinematic trailer in spite of everything, however we do know that there can be cross-play and cross-save between PS5 and PC.