Destiny's second expansion pack is on the way next month, it may be the first to not feature a raid but it is packing content in other areas. Today, Bungie held a Twitch stream, showing off new content, including the new social hub and new upgrade methods for weapons and …
Read More »Destiny House of Wolves expansion gets trailer
Destiny's long-awaited second expansion, House of Wolves, finally has a release date along with an official prologue cinematic trailer. Bungie has also confirmed the list of content set to appear in the game's second expansion, which follows on from The Dark Below, that launched all of the way back in …
Read More »Destiny’s next expansion will have a release date soon
Destiny has been out for quite some time and while two expansions for the game were announced last year as part of a ‘expansion pass', so far, we've only seen the launch of The Dark Below. Over the last few months, we have seen tons of leaks and rumors pertaining …
Read More »Destiny gameplay designer moves to Bethesda
Destiny has been out for a while now. It has sold enough copies and has enough regular players to be considered a success and a new expansion is expected to release very soon. However, Bungie’s senior gameplay designer for the game has just left for Bethesda. Josh Hamrick, senior gameplay …
Read More »Destiny leak shows The Reef as a new social area
It looks like Destiny is going to get a new social area in the upcoming House of Wolves expansion DLC, if these newly leaked screenshots are anything to go by. We know that the Reef was once a playable area at one point in development and previous rumors have hinted …
Read More »Bungie adds new ‘loremaster’ to Destiny writing team
Bungie has gone ahead and hired former Guild Wars 2 writer, John Ryan, to be the new ‘loremaster' for Destiny, it has been confirmed. The company aimed to strengthen its writing staff working on the game, following the departure of lead writer, Joseph Staten, just a year before release. The …
Read More »Destiny ‘House of Wolves’ expansion details leak
A hefty amount of information on Bungie's upcoming Destiny expansion, House of Wolves, leaked online this week, including the possible release date, along with new weapons and armor. A Reddit user managed to gain access to the hidden future content via an unknown method. Apparently we can expect the House …
Read More »Destiny PvP suffering from infinite super exploit
Destiny's online player versus player mode, dubbed ‘The Crucible', is currently suffering from a new exploit that allows players to use an infinite number of super attacks. The exploit does have a few requirements to pull off though. In order to use infinite supers, you will need a party of …
Read More »Bungie talks plans to improve Destiny progression system in next expansion
Bungie has faced a lot of criticism since it launched its latest game, Destiny, last September. However, the development studio seems keen to correct all of its mistakes over the course of this year with a new set of expansions that will fix the progression system for those looking to …
Read More »Bungie is sending out legendary weapons to Destiny players today
Bungie's Christmas gift to Destiny players has finally arrived as gamers start to receive legendary weapons from an ‘unknown benefactor'. Those of you that want to grab your legendary will have to visit the post master at the tower, where you will find a package waiting for you. The legendary …
Read More »Destiny’s potential DLC roadmap has leaked
A newly leaked image from what looks to be a Bungie meeting is doing the rounds on the Internet today, showing off what could be Destiny's DLC roadmap for 2015. According to the leak, we can expect to see one major on-disc expansion titled ‘Comet: Plague of Darkness'. Comet will …
Read More »Call of Duty and Destiny become best selling games of 2014
Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare and Destiny have managed to top seller charts, becoming the two best selling games of 2014 according to Activision. Based on retail sales data of console games alone from January to November, Activision claims that the latest Call of Duty sold better than any other …
Read More »Kim Dotcom and Hutch streaming Destiny Dark Below
Internet entrepreneur, frequent opponent of US copyright politics and founder of the Internet party, Kim Dotcom, is also an avid gamer, often laying claim to the top spots of Call of Duty leaderboards on Xbox Live. However more recently he's been playing Destiny and is currently trying to clear Crota's …
Read More »Paul McCartney is a Hologram in Destiny single video
Paul McCartney is known for many different musical achievements, but until recently, writing for video games wasn't one of them. However, with the release of Bungie's Destiny, came a track called Hope for the Future, written and performed by Mr McCartney. Now, along with the song's single release, he's appeared …
Read More »Destiny 2 is already in the works
Bungie and Activision have seen great success with the launch of Destiny. While reviews were fairly mixed, criticizing the title's lack of story but praising the gameplay mechanics, it hasn't stopped the game from garnering 9.5 million registered users to date and due to this commercial success, Destiny 2 is …
Read More »Bungie insists that it didn’t cut Destiny content to sell as DLC
Destiny launched with a massively underwhelming story, in-fact, many fans are a little surprised that Bungie released something that felt so half-baked. However, the developer is insisting that it did not cut out content in order to sell as DLC prior to release. This comes after gamers discovered bugs within …
Read More »Kim Dotcom wants to reclaim HK assets
Back in early January 2012, when Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom was arrested after a raid on his home, his website shut down and his cars seized, the authorities also went after his liquid assets held in other countries. In Hong Kong for example, over $42 million (£27 million) of his money …
Read More »Destiny’s first DLC is pretty expensive
Destiny's first expansion pack, The Dark Below, is due to launch on the 9th of December, exactly three months after the base game launched. However, Bungie's pricing model is raising some concerns amongst fans, the first expansion pack will set US customers back $19.99 and despite the exchange rate, it …
Read More »Dotcom explains his departure from Baboom, Internet Party
Kim Dotcom has been a personality we've covered here a lot in the past couple of years, mostly because he's been working on some exciting new platform. Over that time he's launched the phoenix like file-locker site, Megaupload, a music sharing site and his own political party, but since then he's …
Read More »Bungie responds to Destiny expansion info leak
Yesterday, a Destiny bug managed to reveal Bungie's plans for upcoming DLC and expansion packs. Since the information was already live on Destiny's servers many gamers jumped to the conclusion that the DLC was already finished and possibly even locked on the disc but Bungie has defended itself, stating that …
Read More »Destiny bug reveals future expansion content
A Destiny player has come across a bug that reveals Bungie's plans for future expansion packs and DLC content. Irish player, Ben Kinsella encountered the bug, which prevented him from accessing ‘the tower', Destiny's social hub. While it prevented him from hanging out at the tower, it did reveal new …
Read More »Destiny blocked on some college and university networks
For most onlookers, the Destiny launch seemed to go off without a hitch earning Activision $500 million in a single day. However, for a lot of students, the experience has been dramatically different as the game isn't accessible on many college and university campus networks worldwide. So far, Bungie is …
Read More »Destiny has made $500 million in a single day
Remember back when it was revealed that Activision had invested $500 million in Destiny's development, infrastructure and future? Well the publisher just announced that it has already made that money back, a mere 24 hours after the game officially went on sale. Bungie's latest title had one of the biggest …
Read More »Sony is treating Destiny as a first party release
In-case you didn't already notice, Sony is heavily invested in Destiny, having swooped in and struck a content exclusivity deal with Bungie. Now, Sony UK Boss, Fergal Gara, is now stating that the company is treating Destiny as a first party title. “We're treating it, for all intents and purposes …
Read More »Last-gen versions of Destiny come with free new gen upgrade
Bungie is offering a free digital upgrade to the PS4 and Xbox One versions of Destiny if you buy the game on the Xbox 360 or Playstation 3 and later decide to upgrade to a current gen console, effectively giving buyers an extra copy of the game for free. This offer is …
Read More »Microsoft launches unofficial Destiny marketing campaign
Microsoft doesn't have permission to run adverts on the Xbox One version of Destiny- so it isn't. Instead it is taking a fun little jab at Sony's exclusivity deal with Bungie by launching Destiny the fragrance- an unofficial marketing campaign in order to make sure people know that Bungie's next big …
Read More »Bungie and Google team up for Destiny planet viewer
You can now explore the Destiny universe as Bungie has created a planet viewer based on the same technology that Google uses to power its Google Maps and Google Earth services. The new site lets you explore the worlds of Venus, Mars, the Moon and the Earth before the game officially …
Read More »Bungie reveals changes coming to Destiny after beta feedback
The recent Destiny public beta test managed to rake in 4.8 million players, giving Bungie plenty of feedback on things to tweak before the game's full release next month and now, the developer is ready to talk about some of the changes it has been working hard to implement. During an …
Read More »Destiny beta characters won’t carry over to final game
Bungie has finally confirmed that those who played the Destiny Beta, won't see their characters return when the final game launches in September. According to the developer, this is a result of changes and tweaks made to the game since the beta. The studio finally delivered the news in a blog …
Read More »4.6 million people played the Destiny beta
Activision has revealed that over 4.6 million people took part in the beta test for Destiny between the 17th and 27th of July. The beta was initially closed off as a pre-order incentive. However, Bungie later decided to open it up to all Xbox and Playstation owners on the 23rd …
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