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Ever since George Floyd was murdered by police officers on the 25th of May, there have been global protests for racial equality and justice, with many companies announcing and offering their support for the Black Lives Matter movement. Now, Bungie has announced that it will be selling a collectible pin …

Yesterday, Bungie showed off the next three major expansions for Destiny 2, Bungie’s online multiplayer first-person shooter. With content lined up until 2022, and Destiny’s Director Luke Smith stating that Bungie does “not want to start over from scratch and make a sequel”, many were wondering whether Destiny would ever …

We all knew Bungie was going to be revealing this year’s major expansion for Destiny 2 during a livestream today. However, the studio gave us much more than we bargained for, lining up the next three major expansions and some huge changes to Destiny to finally turn it into the …

Ever since its release in 2014, Bungie has seemingly been solely focused on Destiny: the MMO-lite first-person shooter. It would appear as though the studio is finally gearing up to expand to new IPs, as new job listings have been posted online for a game which is said to feature …

Bungie began teasing ‘the future of Destiny 2’ last week, both with in-game Easter eggs and some cryptic teaser cinematic and audio clues posted to social media. Today, the latest piece of the puzzle was revealed, this time featuring The Drifter. The first teaser showed Eric’s Morn walking through the …

Bungie seemingly slipped up last night by posting and then removing a brief teaser trailer for what appears to be the next major Destiny 2 expansion. While the post was removed, eagle-eyed fans were quick to preserve it.  The teaser was posted to Instagram, so presumably this was a scheduled …

Bungie has had some mixed success with its seasonal content plans lately, particularly when it comes to pursuing rare, new or unique gear. This has also led to complaints about the Eververse, which has been at odds with the game’s balance for a while.  As part of this week’s update …

With the current generation of consoles, the notion of the ‘live-service’ game really came into fruition. With that, one of the major talking points surrounding the next generation is which games are set to make the leap to the new consoles, and which will be left behind. In the wake …

While Destiny 2 was relatively safe from cheaters on PC at launch, over time cheat creators have found ways to circumvent Bungie’s protections. As part of a weekly update blog this week, Bungie admitted that cheating in Destiny 2 has risen by about 50% since January.  At this point, Bungie …

Though there was once a time when loot boxes were being implemented into a large number of games, it would seem the many controversies surrounding the exploitative nature of the randomised system has led to many of these developers backtracking on the mechanic. The latest game to remove loot boxes …

Remember a couple of years ago when Bungie received a huge $100 million investment and trademarked a new game series? Well that project seems to be finding movement this year, as the studio begins expanding, seeking talent to help out with a brand new IP. Ever since leaving Microsoft and …

Around this time last year, there were some rumours floating around about the impending release of Destiny 3, with Bungie beginning work on the project prior to splitting up with Activision and going fully independent. Since then, Bungie has dialled back a bit, refocusing its major efforts on Destiny 2, …

Bungie has had to disable an exotic rifle in all activities, amid the discovery of a glitch that allowed you to instantly charge your super. The offending weapon, the “Telesto”, is a fusion rifle which was released with the first Destiny 2 expansion “Curse of Osiris” back in December of …

Bungie’s efforts to reinvent Destiny 2 this year seem to be paying off, with the new expansion being well received so far in addition to the game getting a big show of support from players on Steam. Not only has the game accrued some very high concurrent player numbers, but …

Ever since leaving Microsoft and Halo behind, Bungie has been working on the Destiny franchise. However, with the studio’s new and complete independence, Bungie is looking to do a bit more, with plans to push more franchises out into the market by 2025. We had our first hint of this …

Back in June, Bungie made several huge announcements for Destiny 2. For starters, the game is leaving Battle.net behind and relaunching on Steam. The base game and Year 1 DLC content are also being packaged together and put out as the free to play ‘Destiny 2: New Light’. There is …

Back in June, Bungie made several huge announcements for Destiny 2. Not only are we getting a new expansion, but cross-save is being implemented across all platforms, the base game is going free to play and Destiny 2 will officially be moving over to Steam. This does mean that once …

It has been almost two months since Bungie first announced Destiny 2’s next expansion and plans to make the base game and first-year DLCs all free to play. At the time, the new expansion and free to play transition were due to take place in September but a small delay …

Last week, it was widely reported that Destiny 2 was not able to run on AMD’s new 3rd Gen Ryzen processors and X570 motherboards. Bungie began investigating the issue fairly swiftly but it turns out that the main problem was on the AMD side, as Destiny 2 and several major …

Update (12.07.19): Earlier this week we learned that Destiny 2 players upgrading to AMD’s new Ryzen 3000 CPUs and X570 motherboards were having trouble launching the game. Bungie has been investigating the issue this week but so far, the developers haven’t been able to patch out the problem. Fortunately, it …

Over the last week, Bungie has announced plenty of major changes coming to Destiny 2. Not only is the game coming to new platforms with full cross-save functionality, but the base game and its year-one content will be made free to play and a new expansion is coming out in …

Now that Bungie is independent once again and working Destiny all on its own, we are going to be seeing some major changes to the game this year. Not only is timed exclusive content going away for the PS4 version of Destiny 2, but the game’s year-one content is going …

Bungie is scheduled to announce the next major Destiny 2 expansion later today but one of the big changes coming to the game has already leaked out ahead of time. Destiny 2 and its year-one expansions will be going free-to-play in the near future as part of Bungie’s effort to …

While Destiny has always been a multi-platform series, it has always had close ties with PlayStation, with the PS4 version often getting the majority of marketing. Unfortunately, this deal seems to have had an adverse effect for Destiny 2, as Sony reportedly pushed back on the idea of allowing Destiny …

Not all is equal in Destiny 2, as an on-going timed exclusivity deal with Sony ensures that new content hits the PlayStation 4 before it comes to other platforms. Bungie has inadvertently reminded us of this over the weekend, when the developer accidentally released a PS4 exclusive weapon onto PC …

In a surprise move earlier this year, Bungie and Activision split up, allowing Bungie to go independent once again with the Destiny IP in hand.  At the time, investors called for a third-party investigation into the situation and now, a class-action lawsuit is being pursued. Kuznicki Law PLLC, a California-based …

It has been just over a week since it was announced that Bungie would be splitting away from Activision and handling Destiny independently. Right now, there are still more questions than answers surrounding what this means for the future. Clearly though, Bungie is in good spirits about the whole thing, …

Although Activision’s split with Bungie was largely welcomed by the Destiny community, company investors are suspicious that there has been fraudulent activity from behind the scenes. Third-party lawyers from Pomerantz LLP are currently investigating the sudden announcement, which has been linked to sizeable dips in the company’s stock. Activision Blizzard …

After eight years working with the company on its Destiny series, Bungie has announced that it is parting ways with Activision. The developer has managed to retain “full publishing rights and responsibilities” for the shared world shooter, and hopes to bring more of a “seasonal experience” moving forward. The partnership …

While Destiny 2’s Forsaken expansion seemed to get critics back onboard with the game, it apparently hasn’t been doing the business for Activision’s bottom line. During the publisher’s most recent earnings call, heads at Activision confirmed that Destiny 2: Forsaken has not met internal sales expectations. During the call, Activision’s …