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Bungie To Show Off New Social Area The Reef Next Week
In a community blog post, Bungie said: You're invited to visit The Reef with us next week. House of Wolves Reveal Stream The Reef – Gear Upgrades Wednesday, April 22nd 11 AM Pacific http://www.twitch.tv/bungie We'll tackle these burning curiosities: Who will issue our new walking orders? What do we stand to gain from this alliance? What will happen to our existing gear? Will we ever want[...]
Next Destiny DLC Release Date Will Be Revealed This Month
In a weekly blog, Bungie have hinted we will know soon mind. The next expansion for Destiny is something we're really looking forward to talking about This month, there will come a day when we'll reveal a release date for the trials that await you, with a whole reef of details soon to follow – but[...]
Destiny Shocks Everyone To Take Best Game At The BAFTA Gaming Awards
I'm happy to see Bungie walk away with it, even if I know many people will be eating their hats in rage right now. Really though, Dragon Age: Inquistion not getting a single award feels a little…'wrong.' So I literally just got in from the BAFTA Game Awards ceremony I have a ton of cool interviews[...]
BAFTA Games: Talking To Bungie's Jonty Barnes About Destiny's Achievements And Weaknesses
It's progression loops are addictive, but also very satisfying. Now, I completely understand people's complaints of there not being enough content, the story being awful or putting up a barrier to hardcore progression. That is why I was excited to talk to Bungie's Production Director, Jonty Barnes ahead of tonight's BAFTA Game Awards We talked about that[...]
Your Destiny Character Will Carry Over In Sequels
When Bungie said they had a '10 year plan' for Destiny, some people thought that meant that the developer would just build on the initial release for a decade It is not hard to see how people arrived at that conclusion, but I always found it highly unlikely Activision is a company that loves sequels and[...]
Destiny Is Exactly The Game You Think It Is: An Alternate Perspective
Ignore overly hopeful FPS fans, ignore all the Bungie loyalists–go with what your head's telling you If you think it's just Space Borderlands or Borderlands Halo? That's not too far off the mark If you played the alpha or the beta like I did and thought the gameplay wouldn't change too much, for good or[...]
Destiny – A Rare Experiment That Is Equally Fascinating And Disjointed
That is the feeling stuck in the forefront of my mind after a good 20 hours spent with Bungie's new IP The universe it constructs is fascinating, the genres it meshes together, how it does so is fascinating, the aspects it nails are fascinating and its flaws, of which there are many, may be some[...]
A Date With Destiny: Things To Love And Things To Dislike On The Destiny Beta
By Sage Ashford So, over the past two weeks I've had the privilege of playing the Destiny beta.   (Well, I say "privilege" but all I really did was pre-order the game on Amazon, same as everyone else.)  Now, typically I hate first-person shooters…like, a lot.  But developer Bungie went the extra mile during both its initial[...]
Destiny BETA First Impressions – This Could Be Special
For those of you not in the know, Destiny is the new franchise from Bungie, who are the fathers of Halo The game is a sci-fi FPS as you might expect, but the unique spin here is that the game functions like an MMO Playing as a 'Guardian', your charge is to protect the last[...]