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PlayStation leadership has reaffirmed its commitment to live‑service development, despite a growing list of project cancellations, studio closures and criticism from fans who have been disappointed with Sony’s single‑player output during the PS5 generation compared to the PS4 era. As first spotted by wccftech, in a new interview with Famitsu, …

Bungie confirmed layoffs yesterday but didn’t share specific numbers. However, reports now indicate that around 400 employees are being let go, aligning with earlier claims that Bungie was preparing to reduce its headcount by roughly 50%.

Bungie has confirmed that it is undergoing a major downsizing effort, marking the end of Destiny 2 development and a significant shift in the studio's future plans. The announcement follows the release of Destiny 2's final content update earlier this month. As reported by Insider Gaming, PlayStation Studios head Hermen …

The launch of Marathon Season 2.5 will bring with it a number of welcome changes and additions – including the first instance of a PvE game mode: Vault Breaker.

Bungie has now shipped its final content patch for Destiny 2 and will soon begin to shift all of its resources over to Marathon. However, due to mounting financial pressures, Bungie will also reportedly undergo significant downsizing. 

Alongside the launch of Season 2, Marathon will be getting an "open play week” giving prospective buyers 7 days to check the game out for free.

Last night, Bungie officially announced that it is ending development of Destiny 2. Fans immediately began hoping that this would mean that Destiny 3 is entering development, but that turns out to not be the case.

In a shocking announcement today, Bungie has confirmed that it is ending development on Destiny 2. Destiny has been Bungie's most successful game to date, but with player numbers dwindling, Bungie has decided to walk away and explore new projects. In its statement today, Bungie confirmed that on June 9th, …

Following a rocky launch, Bungie have announced that major sweeping changes are coming to Marathon in Season 2 and beyond, including the addition of PvE.

Following plenty of controversies, Bungie’s Marathon finally launched just over a month ago to solid reviews and a decent playercount. Whether or not the live-service extraction shooter is a success or not remains to be seen, with insiders claiming that the title cost over $200 million to develop – possibly $250 million.

Due to delays and internal reboots, Marathon ended up being in development for much longer than initially planned. With a six year timeline, the cost of producing the game rose exponentially for Bungie, with estimates putting the final number in the $250M to $300M range. Despite positive reviews from those that have given the game a chance, Marathon has reportedly only shifted an estimated 1.2M copies so far, with the vast majority of that coming from the PC market. 

While Marathon garnered a respectable number of players for its launch weekend, Bungie's big moment was actually usurped by an unlikely competitor - the early access version of Slay the Spire 2.

Last night Bungie officially launched Marathon, its first brand new game in close to a decade. The game appears to be off to a good start with positive user reviews on Steam, but has it been enough? 

Bungie's Marathon has officially launched today, marking a new beginning for the studio as it branches out into handling multiple live-service games simultaneously. While much of Destiny 2's monetisation was built around FOMO with expiring season passes and limited-time items, Marathon will be going in a different direction. Bungie has …

Bungie has a big week ahead with its first new shooter in a decade, Marathon, launching. The game has managed to secure one of the top spots on Steam's best-selling games list over the past week. Now with many pre-orders in, Bungie has revealed the global unlock times for the game, alongside the first details about post-launch content.

Just weeks away from its planned release, Bungie has delayed the next Destiny 2 update 'Shadow and Order' by 3 whole months.

Bungie's Marathon seems to be garnering some good impressions following the most recent playtests. Last night as part of the State of Play showcase, we got our latest look at the game, which has now been reworked with new assets following an artist dispute last year. 

Sony has revealed that the PS5 Pro version of Bungie’s Marathon runs at a native 5K resolution, which is then downsampled to 4K using PSSR.

Recently, we learned that Sony and Bungie had resolved a plagiarism dispute over Marathon with an artist. Coincidentally, the game's original art director has now left the company. 

With the game’s legal issues now finally resolved, Bungie have officially announced that Marathon is launching in March of 2026.

Earlier this year, following a publicly playable alpha test, Bungie was forced to delay Marathon after an artist noticed that their work had been included in the game uncredited. Now months later and seemingly ahead of Marathon's re-reveal, the artist has confirmed that the dispute has been resolved. In an …

It is no secret that Destiny 2 has been having a bad year. The Edge of Fate expansion didn't land well with long-time players and did very little to bring new players on board. Now, Destiny 2's director has admitted that the expansion failed to deliver. In a recent interview …

Destiny 2 has been in a tough spot throughout 2025. The most recent expansion, The Edge of Fate, failed to impress long-time players and didn't do much to bring new players on board. It is clear that Bungie's initial post-Final Shape plans aren't panning out, so now, we may finally …

Bungie asked Destiny fans what they would like to see improved with the game from a lengthy list as part of a new exclusive player survey.

Over the past year, Bungie has been attempting to fight a plagiarism lawsuit from a writer who claimed that the original Red War campaign for Destiny 2 copied from his own published work. Now, Bungie has been forced to settle, after content vaulting ruined its chances of effectively fighting the case.

It is no secret that 2025 has been a down year for Destiny 2, but we've yet to see Bungie or Sony publicly acknowledge it. That changed this week during Sony's latest earnings report, with executives confirming that the game hasn't met the expectations set at the time of Sony's …

While Bungie had planned on releasing Marathon this year, a stolen art fiasco put those release plans on ice for months. At this point, we still don't have a new release date for the game, but public testing did resume in October and now, Sony has reaffirmed plans to launch …

In partnership with GreenManGaming, Bungie has released a Destiny charity bundle including all available past content and even the upcoming Renegades expansion.

After multiple rounds of layoffs, Bungie had to make some major changes to how it handles expansion and seasonal content in Destiny 2. Moving forward, we get two ‘mid-size' expansions per year, with two ‘seasons' in-between. Looking at the game's Steam numbers, it is becoming increasingly clear that this new …

It has been months since Bungie last publicly addressed Marathon. The game had to be delayed and reworked due to stolen art found within a playtest version of the game earlier this year. Now, Bungie is finally ready to start talking about all of the changes made, and a new …