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Bungie's HR Head Steps Down, Had Reported Executive For Abuse
16.12.2021
A week after a major report from IGN detailing troubling allegations of workplace culture, crunch, and hiring practices within Bungie, the studio’s Head of HR has stepped down from her role.Read more
Halo Infinite’s Grunts Are Funny AF
13.12.2021
You may have heard that Halo Infinite is a terrific first-person shooter, a solid return-to-form for an old Xbox series. What you might not know is that Halo Infinite is also really freakin’ funny. And nowhere is that more true than in the one-liners fired off by grunts, the lowest-ranked cannon...
Bungie Joins Growing List Of Major Studios Who Should Definitely Unionize
10.12.2021
Today, IGN released a massive report on workplace culture, crunch, and hiring practices within Bungie, the development studio behind Destiny and the original Halo series. The report includes dozens of stories from current and former Bungie employees describing a deeply poisonous company culture...
Destiny’s New Space Horse Is Stealing The Show
8.12.2021
There is so much to talk about in Destiny 2’s Bungie 30th Anniversary mini-expansion. There’s a fantastic new dungeon, tons of interesting new guns, and sweeping balance changes to the sandbox. Fuck all of that. For now we are talking about the horse because it’s taking over Destiny and it’s just...
Destiny 2 Gets Halo Guns For Bungie's 30th Anniversary
8.12.2021
Worlds sometimes collide in the most expected ways. Destiny, a series of first-person shooters developed by Bungie and first released in 2014, is getting a slew of weapons from Halo, a series of first-person shooters developed by Bungie and first released in 2001.Read more
Destiny 2’s New Dungeon Is Inspired By The Infamous Loot Cave
2.12.2021
The Steam listing for Destiny 2’s upcoming Bungie 30th Anniversary Pack celebrating the studio’s history recently revealed that the game’s big new dungeon will be a throwback to the most famous moment in Destiny history: the loot cave.Read more
Destiny 2's Expansions Have Become Needlessly Confusing
29.11.2021
Destiny 2 has a reputation for being convoluted and obtuse, even among live service games, and things are about to get even worse when it comes to its expansions, with integral parts of the game arbitrarily paywalled behind old products.Read more
The Top 15 Halo Multiplayer Maps
25.11.2021
By my own rough count, the Halo series has seen some 150 or so multiplayer maps over the course of its two decades. Many of these are good. Some are great. And of course, some are terrible. For this list, I and my fellow Kotaku Halo fans tried to narrow this extensive field down to what we consider...
Former Bungie Composer Tells Fans To 'Destroy' Destiny Music He Published Against Court Orders
20.11.2021
Marty O’Donnell, the former audio director at Bungie who worked on Halo and Destiny for years, was forced by a court to upload a video yesterday asking folks to stop sharing and publishing video game music he uploaded online without legal permission and against court orders. In the short video,...
Destiny 2 Gets Biggest Balance Patch Ever Next Month
19.11.2021
It’s quiet in Destiny 2 at the moment, but big changes are right around the corner. Last week, Bungie outlined major balance changes coming to weapons next month. Today, it revealed it’s completely overhauling how ability cooldowns work. Destiny 2 is going to feel like a very different game when...
Destiny 2 Made Xur Good Again
7.11.2021
To some he’s a cryptic Agent of the Nine. To others he’s the Exotic Engram guy. My friends call him Pasta Face. Most know him as Xur, and after years of being obsolete he’s once again a weekly center of attention in the Destiny 2 universe. It feels good to have him back.Read more
Destiny 2 Glitch Breaks Game, Will Get You Banned
25.10.2021
Destiny 2 has an easy to pull-off trick called the min/max glitch on PC that gives players infinite orbs and a host of other advantages that break a lot of the game’s big activities. Bungie confirmed over the weekend that it’s working on a fix, but in the meantime the developer is warning players...
Destiny 2 Nickle-And-Diming For New Dungeons Is A Bummer
20.10.2021
Destiny 2 will get a lot of new content when The Witch Queen launches in February. Unfortunately, some of it will only be accessible to players who pony up for the Deluxe Edition of the annual expansion. It’s the latest development in the messy evolution of how Bungie monetizes Destiny, and a...
Destiny 2 Gets Slightly Unsettling Goose Game Mask
13.10.2021
Bungie has changed up how Destiny 2’s annual Festival of the Lost Halloween celebration works this year, as well as adding a new pulse rifle, and scaly dinosaur armor. But this Untitled Goose Game mask is all that matters.Read more
Destiny 2 Is Deleting Its Best Expansion
7.10.2021
Destiny 2’s Forsaken expansion, a high-water mark for Bungie’s loot shooter, is going away next year with the launch of The Witch Queen, the studio announced today. The move has been positioned as a way to keep the game optimized and make room for new content, but it will also be a heavy pill...
Destiny 2 Maker Ditches Corporate Anti-Worker Policy
30.9.2021
Bungie CEO Pete Parsons announced yesterday that the studio behind genre-defining franchises like Halo and Destiny would be getting rid of mandatory arbitration clauses in its developer contracts moving forward. The news comes as the anti-worker policies face renewed criticism across the games...
Move Aside, Met Gala: Destiny 2 Is Getting A 'Digital Fashion Magazine'
22.9.2021
Bungie has announced its relentlessly popular multiplayer shooter Destiny 2 is getting something new. No, not another seasonal event, or a balance patch to screw up your favorite gun, but something far more important. The looter-shooter is getting a digital fashion magazine called Threads of Light...
Move Aside, Met Gala: Destiny 2 Is Getting A Fashion Magazine
22.9.2021
Bungie has announced its relentlessly popular multiplayer shooter Destiny 2 is getting something new. No, not another seasonal event, or a balance patch to screw up your favorite gun, but something far more important. The looter-shooter is getting a digital fashion magazine called Threads of Light...
Destiny 2 Players Are Mad Bungie's Gonna Enforce Fair Multiplayer Matchmaking
17.9.2021
This Friday, Bungie will roll out matchmaking assistance for Destiny 2’s hardcore mode, Trials of Osiris. The intent, basically, is to make the multiplayer gauntlet a bit more fair for Guardians who continuously get thrashed. You’ll never believe this, I know, but some players are pissed about...
Destiny Composer Ordered To Pay Bungie Nearly $100,000
16.9.2021
Composer Marty O’Donnell, Bungie’s former audio director, has been found in contempt of court for his continuous use of Destiny assets, including uploading song clips online long after he left the company. According to Eurogamer, such use violated the terms of a previous lawsuit.Read more