Marathon Didn’t Reach As Many Players As Bungie ‘Hoped’ And ‘Needs To Evolve’
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"Marathon Didn’t Reach As Many Players As Bungie ‘Hoped’ And ‘Needs To Evolve’" is generating significant coverage in the Technology category, with 3 articles from 3 distinct sources tracked by PULSE so far.
Outlets currently covering the story include tech-insider.org, Insider Gaming and Kotaku. PULSE measures a story's velocity from how quickly new articles appear and how many independent newsrooms join the coverage.
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Coverage (7)
- Marathon Player Count Drop: Bungie Says It Needs to Evolve shattered.io · 50d ago
- Bungie Admits Marathon Underperformed, Backs Destiny tech-insider.org · 50d ago
- Marathon Was ‘Never Intended To Replace Destiny’ At Bungie Insider Gaming · 50d ago
- Marathon Didn’t Reach As Many Players As Bungie ‘Hoped’ And ‘Needs To Evolve’ Kotaku · 50d ago
- Bungie Announces Plans To Restore Vaulted Destiny 2 Content And Substantial Reworks To Marathon Game Informer · 50d ago
- Bungie apologizes to fans, unseals ‘Destiny’ content vault, tries to convince the world it's still Bungie geekwire.com · 50d ago
- Bungie is freeing vaulted Destiny 2 campaigns after Marathon "did not reach as many players as we had hoped" Eurogamer.net · 50d ago
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