Marathon : Aristeia (2025)

"What's that you're always tuned into? Worth anything?" Whoa! Video game studio Bungie released this 8-minute sci-fi short as promotion for their newest game Marathon (out in September). This new 2025 version of Marathon is actually a reboot of a classic 90s video game also called Marathon - one of the first shooter games Bungie ever made, released on Mac OS in 1995. This latest update is a "team-based extraction shooter." This cinematic short film isn't representing the exact gameplay - it's created by acclaimed Spanish animation filmmaker Alberto Mielgo, who won an Academy Award for 2022's The Windshield Wiper. This cinematic short features the voices of Erica Lindbeck as Glitch, Elias Toufexis as Void, Nika Futterman as Blackbird, Donnla Hughes as ONI, and Ben Starr as the Narrator.
by Alex Billington