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Bungie has revealed the release date for upcoming extraction shooter Marathon, as well as the game's first gameplay footage.

For players who want to try out the new game before it comes out, there will be a closed alpha test starting later this month. A trilogy of games released on the Mac back in the '90s, Marathon put Bungie on the map before it released Halo on the original Xbox.