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Destiny 2 has been making some interesting choices lately — from Bungie's decision to suspend their scaled levelling system to giving Amazon's Alexa increased functionality in game through updates to the Ghost Skill feature. By enabling the skill, players are able to use real-time voice commands to control their ghost in-game. credit//Bungie With over 1,000 custom lines to[...]

It's been announced on Bungie's site that tomorrow, November 30th, the game is going to be offline for six hours The maintenance will start at 8 a.m PST and end at 2 p.m PST If you are in game at 8 a..m., you will be able to play for an hour longer, but you will[...]

After fans noticed an problem with XP scaling in Destiny 2 last week, Bungie promised and quickly removed the scaling system saying the system hadn't performed like they wanted it to The game director for Destiny 2 has since commented that Bungie has some big changes to Destiny 2 coming our way, which will be further explained in a live stream[...]

Destiny 2 hasn't come without its community complaints, but on the whole, the game has been seen as a big improvement for the franchise. If you haven't made the jump yet into Bungie's online shooter yet though, fear not, you can try out large portions of it for free On November 28, Players on PC, PlayStation 4[...]

With Curse of Osiris on the horizon, Bungie has been holding several livestreams detailing the content of the DLC over the last few weeks However, the upcoming one may be a little less flashy, but potentially much more important to Destiny's persistence. Taking to Twitter, director Luke Smith explained that the livestream, which looks set for Tuesday, will[...]

Today Bungie posted an announcement on their forums addressing the righteous gamer rage caused by the discovery. According to the developer, XP scales upwards when playing "longer or fixed duration activities like Crucible competitive multiplayer matches and the Leviathan Raid," while scales downwards while playing "activities that can be quickly, repeatedly chained, like grinding Public Events." Which we[...]

Bungie has held their second livestream over Destiny 2's first expansion: The Curse of Osiris This week's stream gave us a ton of information and a closer look at what we can expect to see when the expansion goes live We got a lot of gameplay footage from the stream, showing new roaming bosses, public events, and[...]

Last week, Bungie hosted a debut live stream for its forthcoming expansion to Destiny 2, Curse of Osiris, that spilled over a ton of new information about what we can expect from the new expansion And it looks like there is even more to tell us about the expansion, despite all of the news we got about the new[...]

Today Bungie held a special Destiny 2 livestream to discuss what we can expect to see in the game's first expansion, Curse of Osiris, but in case you missed it, this is a list of everything we know about the expansion so far We'll be updating as Bungie releases information, so make sure to check[...]

In tomorrow's livestream, Bungie will be giving us information on Destiny 2's first expansion – The Curse of Osiris The stream will kick off at 11 a.m. Pacific, Wednesday, Nov 15 on Bungie's Twitch channel if you want to watch, or you can just check back here for the rundown. Based on the video released today to announce the livestream, we can expect to[...]

About a week or so ago, Bungie was keeping tight-lipped about their plans for improvements to Destiny 2 in light of the Xbox One X being released Now the word has come out that the company are working toward updates for both the Xbox and the PS4 Pro to include 4K and HDR improvements Bungie released[...]

Activision Blizzard's third quarterly report has hit us and the numbers look pretty darn good despite the backlash against micro-transactions

If Activision and Bungie didn't make some money off of Destiny, we would never have gotten the content expansions for it that made that game actually good The re-launch for The Taken King was probably the best thing that could have happened to that game, even if I miss Dinklebot Could you imagine spending the thousands of[...]

Bungie decided today to outline the upcoming updates which are on their way to Destiny 2 in the coming months In short, the updates should make players pretty happy as there are adjustments coming to spawning rules, better rewards, private matches, and Iron Banner improvements. According to a post on the Bungie's official blog, the studio plans to[...]

This morning, Bungie addressed the issues fans have had with banning happening on the PC version of Destiny 2 with a proper response on their blog The short version: they stand by the idea that they have not banned people for using broadcasting or chat equipment, and that the banning was done so because programs[...]

Be careful what you use while playing Destiny 2 on PC, as several players have learned the hard way that Bungie is looking for pretty much any kind of specialized program to drop the ban hammer Several reports have been going up on Reddit that players are being banned for specific software, and we're not[...]

During a panel at TwitchCon, Bungie explained to the rabid hoards of Destiny 2 fans how seasons will affect the way the game is updated going forward, and what that means for players. Bungie even went so far as to promise that players can expect at least one big event per season, with four season planned per[...]

What can we say about you that hasn't already been memed? The sequel to Bungie's first non-Halo effort has been out for about six weeks now, and finally includes all of the fan favorite content – a raid, a prestige raid, the Trials of Osiris, and Iron Banner – which means it has hit its[...]

Earlier today, Bungie released their schedule for the PC version of Destiny 2 before the game launches on October 24th As you can see from the graphic below, they've already got plans for the next three weeks worth of content, including Nightfall in Prestige mode, Trials Of The Nine beginning in November, and Raids starting on[...]

Because Bungie has no immediate solution for this, they've decided to go to an extreme measure that is sure to piss off everyone equally by canceling the Trials Of The Nine mode for the next two weeks. The news came in Bungie's weekly blog where they detailed what they would be doing as the mode would[...]

Bungie is fixing yet another bug that's forced them to change plans in Destiny 2's weekly programming This week's Exodus Crash Nightfall strike was switched to Nightfall after players encountered a bug that stopped them from finishing the Prestige version Bungie issued out the Twitter post below to alert fans of the change, as Pyramidion will be[...]

credit//Bungie The moment you've either been waiting for, or dreading, is here Bungie has finally released the first prestige raid for Destiny 2 That's right, the excruciatingly hard mode for the Leviathan raid is now live. Bungie made the announcement this morning on Twitter once the raid went up after the game's weekly reset and maintenance. The Prestige raid[...]

Before we finally see Destiny 2 on PC, Bungie has decided to grace us with a launch trailer for the game with footage taken from the PC build of their title You're going to be getting the game in all of its 4K glory with an uncapped frame rate, as the trailer is focused on[...]

However, thanks to an exploit found to make enemy encounters much easier than they should be, Bungie has decided to delay the prestige raid's release until October 18th. In a post on the game's official forums, Bungie defended their decision to delay the release, as the exploit could potentially tarnish the legacy of the team who earns the[...]

Bungie has announced that the incedibly popular first person shooter will be going offline for for maintenance for a few hours next week. Starting at 11:00 a.m EDT (8:00 a.m PDT) on Tuesday, October 3, 2017, players will no longer be able to sign into the game Then, at 12:00 p.m EDT (9:00 a.m PDT) anyone[...]

In case you missed it this morning, Bungie took Destiny 2 down for a few hours as they implemented their latest patch: 1.0.3 We have the complete list of what was added and fixed for you below, but the biggest takeaway from this is that Faction Rallies have now been added to the game You can[...]

Private matches were not an automatic thing in Destiny 2, much like how they weren't a part of the first game for about three years until Bungie got around to adding better PvP capabilities so players could make whatever matches they wanted to without any restrictions or guidelines So, of course, people were a little[...]

Bungie just scrambled to replace a map after some exploits were found in the next Trials of the Nine challenge for Destiny 2 The plan going into this week was to have Alter of Flame be the primary location, but it turns out that just a couple hours after it went into effect, players discovered a[...]

It has been 14 years since fans of Halo: Combat Evolved started working on the SPV3 mod. After a decade and a half, the mod is finally available.

But after taking the currency down, Bungie was quick to send out word that this would not be the case. Here's a quick sample of tweets sent out by David "Deej" Dagu, who is Bungie's Community Manager and usually the guy who has to curtail false news or mistakes about games with the fans[...]