With a new season starting soon, Bungie is offering Marathon at its best price yet next week: free. For the low price of nothing, anyone interested in checking out the extraction shooter on PC, PS5, or Xbox Series X|S can grab a free trial for the game starting June 2 and running through June 9, with progress carrying over if they decide to drop $40 on it. PS5 players won't need a PS Plus subscription to go online, either.

With Marathon sales reportedly not being as great as Bungie hoped for and player numbers being modest at best, this might be the best chance for the developer to introduce people to the game. The June 2 date also coincides with the start of Marathon's second season, which will add the new Night Marsh zone, a new Sentinel Runner shell, and more deadly hardware. The important thing to note is that a new season also means that player inventories are wiped, leveling the playing field.

This means that you won't have to worry about running into fellow Runners equipped with top-tier loot at the start of the season. Other updates coming in the season include the Cradle, a new system that will let you level up your Runner shell stats without needing to worry too much about faction progression, increased faction progression speed, a larger Vault, and several quality-of-life changes. If you're curious, Marathon is worth trying out as Bungie has put its own fresh spin on the extraction shooter genre.

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"Bungie's slick extraction shooter is great at creating tense battles, incredible highs, and painful lows, with a future that's full of promise," Phil Hornshaw wrote in GameSpot's Marathon review.

Marathon appears to be Bungie's main priority for now, as the studio recently announced that Destiny 2 will receive one final content update in June. While the server lights will remain on for the foreseeable future, this update will serve as an epilogue of sorts to the live-service game, just when its story was starting to get good. 'Significant" layoffs are also expected to follow now that Destiny 2 is being sunset, but Bungie has confirmed that it is also developing several ideas for future games.

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Tales are circulating around Forza Horizon 6 currently, as players are being tormented by a four-wheeled Baba Yaga known as Bowie Knife99. An AI Drivatar unclouded by conscience, remorse, or delusions of morality, Bowie Knife 99 prowls the streets of Japan, fueled by petroleum and homicidal urges. Already a legend, the perfect driving organism has become something of a meme since the launch of Forza Horizon 6, one that has broken free and has begun popping up in other spaces.

For the uninitiated, Drivatars in Forza Horizon 6 games are AI-controlled opponents that mimic the driving style and skill of players in the game. They emulate how people drive and can be challenged to a race, giving online players some surprisingly authentic competition on the track. And then there's Bowie Knife 99, as this Drivatar aims to beat players with pure aggression and unhinged driving. Bowie Knife 99 has been a menace, hunting down players and wiping them out mid-race. So terrifying is the thought of running into Bowie Knife99 that players have begun a quest to hunt down the automobile anarchist and give it a taste of its own medicine.

Even Xbox is aware of Bowie Knife99, and has joined a chorus of players who all share the same opinion: He can't keep getting away with this! Not content to just terrorize Forza Horizon 6 players, the legend of Bowie Knife99 has now spread across the world. Even Major League Baseball has joined in on the fun:

https://twitter.com/MLB/status/2059499510481494299

Battlefield is willing to lend a hand--or a rocket launcher:

https://twitter.com/Battlefield/status/2059661271834689622

Even Master Chief fears the Forza Horizon 6 boogeyman:

https://twitter.com/Halo/status/2059699909054656943

Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 developer Warhorse Studios has issued a challenge to Bowie Knife99:

https://twitter.com/KingdomComeRPG/status/2059275871261708400

Walmart Canada isn't taking any chances and has banned Bowie Knife99 from its stores:

https://twitter.com/WalmartCAGaming/status/2059398691539099671

It looks like the ruthless drivatar has been spotted in Gotham:

https://twitter.com/LEGODCGame/status/2059848390939185396

Clearly, the staff at Marvel's Wolverine developer Insomniac Games aren't in a mood to talk:

https://twitter.com/insomniacgames/status/2059228651804360928

Maybe the South Park gang can stop his rampage:

https://twitter.com/Warcraft/status/2059723002095280461

Rare reckons it's time to abandon ship:

https://twitter.com/SeaOfThieves/status/2059718833930191246

Leave Mega Man alone, you bully:

https://twitter.com/MegaMan/status/2059730712912449640

Ubisoft knows a thing or two about lethal blades:

https://twitter.com/assassinscreed/status/2059708217957998784

Not even Crimson Desert is safe from the menace:

https://twitter.com/CrimsonDesert_/status/2059809380410044774

And the team over at Invincible Vs has summed up how ever Forza Horizon 6 player feels about Bowie Knife99:

https://twitter.com/InvincibleVS/status/2059381925924454850

For now, the identity of Bowie Knife99 remains a mystery, but they've already established their legend in Forza Horizon 6 and the world. They're the antithesis to heroes like Let Me Solo Her, and their reign of car-nage might only just be starting. But don't let that specter discourage you from trying out the game, as Forza Horizon 6 is proving to be one of the best entries in the series. While it doesn't deviate drastically from the path established in previous games, Forza Horizon 6 still provides plenty of digital dopamine hits while also fixing one of the most annoying aspects of the series.

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