As you might have heard, Elder Scrolls Online is getting crossplay after 12 long years. The first murmurings about the feature came in Oct. 2025, when developer ZeniMax Online Studios confirmed to Forbes it was being worked on, and it came up again in a Reddit AMA last week when the studio said that while crossplay is still being developed, it "won't be a 2026 item."

In that same thread, though, executive producer Susan Kath confirmed that cross-progression is coming too: "We will be doing crossplay and cross-prog at the same time," she wrote.

It's hard to know when to expect the features, though 2027 is the earliest window players might see it. MMOs with both crossplay and cross-progression are exceedingly rare compared to their PC-exclusive or otherwise cordoned-off counterparts, and given what sort of trouble arises squeezing all those players together on a single platform, it's no surprise this sort of thing takes a lot of extra work.

The note about cross-progression is great news, though, for anyone looking to explore Tamriel on multiple platforms. It's not clear how this will all work with PC addons, whether the game or its expansions will need to be bought again to play on different platforms, or what this means for the extra-dedicated sickos who already have significant progress on both a console version of the game and the PC version. One assumes that's the stuff they need the coming year to sort out.

Here's hoping ESO can pull itself out of the mud with changes like this and the recently announced 2026 roadmap. 2025 was an arduous year for the venerable MMO, with the original director leaving the company outright after layoffs killed the studio's unannounced next game. Strife aside, it's still one of the best MMOs on PC, and it should be even better once you can rope in all your friends with an Xbox or a Playstation.

We've learned a lot about Marathon over the past couple months, but one rather important bit of info we haven't been given is the release date. Sony has previously committed to Marathon arriving in March 2026, but has remained mum on specifics, presumably holding out for a big, flashy reveal that will serve as the metaphorical exclamation point capping off what has been a pretty successful pre-release campaign.

That has now changed: Marathon is coming on March 5. The date was initially revealed by a premature preorder trailer on the Xbox store and while it was quickly pulled, an official announcement rolled out a few hours later. Here's the new trailer:

The video is mostly cinematic, a stylish collection of environmental shots, fast cuts, and occasional bits of gunplay: Bungie is definitely going for a vibe here, and this trailer looks like it was built in a lab to drive hype and deliver the climax of a campaign to turn around what was looking like a full-on crisis for Bungie.

The initial Marathon reveal was, to use the technical term, really not great, to the point that even PC Gamer brand director and inveterate Bungie fan Tim Clark started to sweat. A long-awaited gameplay reveal didn't change anyone's mind, eventually leading to a lengthy delay, and it really started to sound like Sony had resigned itself to taking a hard kick in the ass on the whole thing.

But in December 2025, Bungie came out swinging with a sort of re-reveal, this one much more detailed than the initial unveiling and featuring numerous changes to the initial design. And it worked, at least to the extent that doom and gloom is no longer the order of the day. 'Excitement' is probably overstating it and Marathon is still facing a very hard road, but there's a sense among people following along that Bungie might actually pull it off. At this point, that's a significant uptick in the mood.

So, Marathon, March 5, now confirmed. You can preorder it for PC on Steam, for $40/£35/€40.