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Bungie has been quite open about the fact that it has a new IP in the works, totally separate from Destiny, with plans to launch in the next few years. Outside of that, not much has been revealed, but there apparently are clues hiding within Destiny 2 right now.  According …

Marty O’Donnell, best known for his work as a composer at Bungie in the days of Halo, and eventually, the early days of Destiny, filed a lawsuit against Microsoft two years ago. O’Donnell and fellow composer, Mike Salvatori, claimed that Microsoft owes the pair royalties dating back 20 years. Now, …

Bungie found itself in the hotseat recently when a wave of copyright takedown requests were sent out against Destiny 2 content creators on YouTube. Bungie quickly admitted that it was just as confused about the situation as the rest of us and now, the studio is suing a number of …

Bungie has spent 20 years creating nothing but first-person shooters, using each new project to refine the overall game-feel further. With the company having crafted a wholly satisfying first-person shooter in the form of Destiny 2, it looks like the company is expanding its horizons and making a third-person game …

Bungie has found itself in a spot of controversy this week, as the studio has revealed that it intends to ban any Destiny 2 player attempting to access the game on Steam Deck. Bungie says the Deck is an ‘unsupported platform', despite the fact that the game can run using …

Destiny 2 is set to enter a new era later tonight with the launch of The Witch Queen expansion, but as with any major online game launch, there are going to be a lot of players trying to play on day-one. With that in mind, Bungie has already forewarned of …

Marty O'Donnell, best known for his work as a composer at Bungie in the days of Halo, and eventually, the early days of Destiny, has filed a lawsuit against Microsoft. O'Donnell and fellow composer, Mike Salvatori, claim that Microsoft owes the pair royalties dating back 20 years.  As reported by …

Many fans were left surprised at the revelation that despite acquiring Bungie for $3.6 Billion, Sony has no intentions of making any of their games exclusive to PlayStation. That being said, Bungie’s IPs will be used by Sony in a different way: Films and TV. During the company’s recent earnings …

Back in August, we learned that Google was hiring new Stadia employees to work on licensing its streaming tech out to game developers and publishers, in lieu of focusing on first-party games and bringing consumers on to Stadia directly. Now, it seems that plan is very much in motion, with Google reportedly being in talks with the likes of Bungie and Capcom.

The video games industry has been a rather volatile place to work in recent years, with studios shutting down, opening up, being acquired and going indie. Following Sony’s recent acquisition of Bungie, the company made clear that they value the talented developers at the studio just as much as the …

Following the recent announcement that Sony is going to acquire Bungie for $3.6 Billion, the console manufacturer’s executives have been discussing the award-winning studio – with PlayStation Head Hermen Hulst even revealing that the PlayStation-exclusive Killzone was directly inspired by Halo. PlayStation Studios Head Hermen Hulst recently sat down to …

Sony has made a number of key acquisitions in recent years, adding Insomniac, Housemarque, Nixxes, Bluepoint and Bungie to its roster of PlayStation Studios. While its recent $3.6 billion acquisition of Bungie was the biggest so far, SIE CEO, Jim Ryan, has said that there are still more moves to …

In a shocking twist last night, Sony Interactive Entertainment announced that it has reached a deal to acquire Bungie, Microsoft's former first-party studio and the original creators of Halo.

If ever there is an Xbox system on the market, you can bet your bottom dollar that a Halo game will follow right behind. Though one year later than planned, Halo: Infinite’s multiplayer mode has finally been released. But was it worth the wait?

With the last major expansion, Bungie introduced the Content Vault to Destiny 2 and immediately cycled out some older content to keep the game at a manageable size. It has been a while since anything in Destiny 2 has been vaulted, but with the new expansion coming up, Bungie has …

Bungie has tried to reinvent the 'Destiny' experience many times over the years to varying degrees of success. When Bungie first introduced the seasonal content model, it felt like things were heading in the right direction, but over time, we came to realise that those early seasons weren't building up to the big story moments many players were hoping for. That is all finally starting to change this year, with Season of the Lost and The Witch Queen expansion showing signs of living up to the ambitious promises Bungie sold us on all those years ago. 

Last year, Bungie announced plans to bring cross-play to Destiny 2. The feature mistakenly went live early in May and was later rolled out again in a limited time beta test. Now, with Season of the Lost, cross-play will be officially live in Destiny 2.  During Bungie's big stream this …

Bungie is just hours away from its big Destiny 2 reveal event, during which we expect to see announcements for the next season, as well as the next major expansion, The Witch Queen. Unfortunately, the PlayStation Store has leaked some details early, including the release date for the new expansion.  …

Just recently, Bungie teamed up with Ubisoft to go after one of the larger Destiny 2 and Rainbow Six Siege cheat providers. Now, shortly after confirming that BattleEye will be implemented into Destiny 2, Bungie has filed three more lawsuits targeting cheat sellers for copyright infringement.  As reported by TorrentFreak, …

Despite its many advantages, one of the issues with PC gaming is the fact that it can be much easier to cheat in games. While not an issue in single-player games, multiplayer titles with cheaters can ruin the experience for others. As a result, Bungie has now announced that Destiny …

We've seen publishers launch lawsuits against cheat makers and cheat selling sites plenty of times in the past, although it is rare to see two publishers going after the same site at once. This week, it emerged that both Ubisoft and Bungie are suing a cheat site, which sells ESP …

While Destiny 2's next major expansion, The Witch Queen, won't be coming out until 2022, Bungie will be giving us a look at what to expect this year. Today, the studio confirmed that it will be hosting an event in August.  Destiny 2: The Witch Queen is set to be …

Following the success of Resident Evil Village, long-time producer at Capcom, Peter Fabiano, is stepping down from his role and heading over to a new studio. Moving forward, Fabiano will be working at Bungie, which is currently working on a new IP in addition to continued content for Destiny 2.  …

Last week, Bungie accidentally switched on cross-play in Destiny 2, a feature that wasn't expected to roll out until later this year. The feature was quickly disabled, but now the studio is ready for a proper beta test.  Between the 25th and 27th of May, Bungie will be officially testing …

If you've logged into Destiny 2 within the last 24 hours, then you may have noticed that Bungie went live with PC and console cross-play. Unfortunately, the feature wasn't supposed to go live yet and as a result, it is being disabled.  After seeing social media buzz about cross-play being …

We've known for a while now that Bungie is preparing a new IP, which is due to launch sometime in the next four years. Now, Bungie has revealed a bit more about its plans for this game, with some new details revealed through job listings.  There are several new job …

Over the last week, Destiny 2 players discovered a bug that allowed 12 players to join a single raid. As you would expect, this completely changed raid runs and opened up new ways for players to tackle challenges. As a result, there was some hope that Bungie wouldn't patch it …

Bungie took a big step in 2019 after splitting off from Activision and becoming a truly independent studio. So far, things seem to be going very well, with Bungie announcing a huge studio expansion and plans to release a new IP within the next four years. Speaking about the expansion, …

With Halo: The Master Chief Collection moving to PC over the last year, a lot of players hoped for a custom server browser in-game to quickly find community-ran games. Soon, we'll be getting exactly that, with testing set to begin in the next Master Chief Collection Flight version.  In this …

While Bungie initially had Destiny 2 players excited with the idea of the Cosmodrome location growing over time, the studio has since walked back on those plans. This week, Bungie confirmed that there are ‘no plans' to further expand the Cosmodrome to include more Destiny 1 content. With Destiny 2's …