No Going Back

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

Video game retailer GameStop has released its latest quarterly report, and it was a banner period for the company. GameStop posted a quarterly profit of $389.6 million for its fiscal Q1, and that was the highest-ever quarterly profit in the company's history. This compares to a profit of $44.8 million for the same period last year. Revenue surged as well, rising from $732.4 million during Q1 last year to $835.3 million this year. GameStop also continued to cut costs, with selling, general, and administrative costs falling from $228.1 million to $201.6 million. GameStop's stock price is surging