PlayStation has announced it will be holding a playtest for Horizon Hunters Gathering this weekend. If you're sure you already had something else on and won't be able to make it, that might be because Marathon, another PlayStation-published live service game, is running its server slam at the same time.
Details about Horizon Hunters Gathering's upcoming playtest reveal that it will begin this Friday, February 27, 2026, and run through March 1. The game will only be accessible at certain times (between 7 pm and 10 pm CET in Europe, and from 4 pm until 7 pm PST in the US), and will run on both PS5 and Steam.
Marathon's server slam, a test to ensure the game will be ready to handle the strain ahead of its full release on March 5, begins a little earlier, on February 26, and ends a day later, on March 2. Marathon will be open 24/7 on all platforms during its test, and the entirety of the Hunters Gathering playtest will take place while that server slam is ongoing.
That has left people a little confused, to say the least. Hunters Gathering is developed by Guerrilla, and Marathon is developed by...
