The article discusses the rise of artificial intelligence in video games, with the release of Marathon, the latest game by Bungie, the studio behind sci-fi games Halo and Destiny. The game allows players to play as runners in the quest for treasure and answers in a distant colony project that collapsed a century ago. Players control a nameless security officer tasked with preventing an alien invasion and combatting waves of alien soldiers. The article suggests that while AI is still considered a concept in science fiction, it now seems inevitable. In the game's text, players experience one-sided text conversations with the ship’s intelligences, while aliens have mostly disappeared and replaced by a robotic security force and player-controlled runners. The author acknowledges that the game’ aesthetic and secrecy undermines its bright colors and utopian corporate-speak.