As a retired Destiny player, Marathon feels like coming home. Bungie’s extraction shooter borrows plenty of ideas from Destiny despite being a completely different kind of game. There are vaults, lore, Triumphs, factions, and more interplanetary resources than one person could ever hope to keep track of. There’s just enough shared DNA that I’m already begging Marathon to get my favorite Destiny feature: its own dedicated mobile app.

If you’ve never played Destiny, I imagine that you’ve yet to see the light of the Destiny Companion app. Built as a sort of second-screen experience to Bungie’s content-loaded MMO, the app allows Destiny players to get a whole lot of work done without opening the game. In addition to tracking player stats and showing what vendors have in stock each........

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