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Bungie Defends Abortion Rights Even As People Urge It To Stick To Games
5.5.2022
A studio best known for blockbuster games about shooting aliens now increasingly has a reputation for not taking shit from the people who play them. Creator of Halo and Destiny 2, Bungie, took fire from angry gamers this week, for coming out in support of abortion rights. Instead of flinching like...
Bungie Sees Multiple Claims Against Destiny Cheat Seller Dismissed In Federal Court
30.4.2022
Bungie was served a bit of a loss this week in its ongoing legal war against cheat makers and sellers. On Wednesday, a federal judge dismissed Bungie’s copyright infringement claims against website AimJunkies while agreeing with the cheat seller’s legal defense that the Destiny publisher’s other...
Call Of Duty Will Now Punish Cheaters By Making Everyone Else Disappear
28.4.2022
Call of Duty: Vanguard has added a new tool to its arsenal of methods for trying to humiliate cheaters. The online shooter’s anti-cheat tech now includes a new “mitigation technique” called Cloaking that will make everyone but the cheater invisible, a punishment worthy of Black Mirror.Read more
Bungie Going 'Digital-First', Many Future Roles Will Be 'Fully Remote'
13.4.2022
Like pretty much everything else on the planet, the pandemic has knocked the video game industry on its ass. But while game delays, console shortages and under-cooked releases have been the main issues facing players, those actually making the games have faced the same obstacles many of us have;...
While Sony And Microsoft Acquire Studios, Nintendo Buys Land
12.4.2022
While the rest of the video game industry is consolidating, Nintendo is spreading out. The Switch manufacturer has finally responded to massive moves by competitors Sony and Microsoft by announcing a $39.8 million land deal to break ground on a new R&D office. Whatever it takes to finally port...
Destiny 2 Maker Blasts YouTube's Takedown System In Wild Lawsuit
28.3.2022
Earlier this month, a bunch of Destiny 2 YouTube videos, including some by high profile content makers and even Bungie themselves, were hit by rogue copyright takedown notices generated by fake Google accounts. Bungie is now trying to sue the people responsible, and has called out YouTube...
Devs Want To Challenge Your Expectations Of Who Makes Games
24.3.2022
While the video game industry is becoming more diverse every year, marginalized game developers are still often dismissed in professional settings based on their appearance. One developer started the hashtag #WhatAGameDevLooksLike after security guards at a games conference apparently stopped...
Sony Assures It Won’t Forget Single-Player PlayStation Games Amid Online Push
24.3.2022
PlayStation has grown increasingly vocal about its live-service auspices. But the firm’s oeuvre of top-flight single-player games isn’t getting sidelined as a result, at least according to statements made by two PlayStation execs in a recent interview.Read more
Destiny Copyright Takedowns Go Rogue, Are Even Hitting Bungie Videos
21.3.2022
A “series of copyright takedowns” have been striking the Destiny community late last week and over the weekend, taking down musical videos hosted on YouTube. While normally this kind of action comes at the request of a publisher or studio, in this case Bungie says it has nothing to do with...
Destiny 2's New Glaives Are Perfect And I Love Them
12.3.2022
I wasn’t sold on the idea of Bungie adding glaives to Destiny 2. Something about the initial pitch seemed out of place in a game like Destiny 2. But now, after playing many, many hours of Witch Queen, I’m happy to report that past Zack was an idiot. Glaives are awesome. Read more
The Art Of Destiny 2: The Witch Queen
9.3.2022
I have been running Fine Art for 11 years now, and in that time I have never put together bigger posts than I have for both Destiny games. Read more
The Witch Queen Is The Best Campaign Destiny's Ever Had
27.2.2022
I have never, since Destiny launched back in 2014, been able to categorically recommend it to anyone. Praise always came with caveats. The cool parts were always buried beneath an incomprehensible grind. With The Witch Queen I can finally say, without reservation, that Destiny 2 has a great shooter...
Destiny 2's Big Witch Queen PS4 Launch Hit An Unfortunate Snag
22.2.2022
Destiny 2’s long-awaited Witch Queen expansion is finally here and players are starting to dig in. Unless they’re on PS4. Thanks to a unique set of circumstances players on Sony’s last-gen console are currently waiting in line just to download a giant 72 GB update.Read more
Microsoft Started Activision Acquisition Talks Three Days After Bombshell Harassment Report
19.2.2022
On November 16, 2021, a report was published that claimed Activision CEO Bobby Kotick was well aware of harassment happening within his company. It also alleged that he himself mistreated women, both inside and outside work. Now, new docs reveal that three days later, Xbox head Phil Spencer called...
Halo Infinite Community Goes Nuts Over Leaked Forge Mode
16.2.2022
Halo Infinite’s creation mode, Forge, isn’t supposed to come out until way later this year, but apparently leaked early footage has started making the rounds this week. It looks amazing.Read more
Destiny 2’s Mysterious Bridge Is Finally Finished, And Nothing Happened
9.2.2022
Destiny 2 is in a weirder spot than usual right now. Anticipation for its upcoming Witch Queen expansion is through the roof, but the game’s current seasonal story hasn’t progressed in months. Nothing highlights the gap between the growing hype and the current snooze better than the game’s latest...
Destiny 2 Exotic Guns Are About To Get Way Stronger
4.2.2022
Bungie dropped a bombshell in today’s blog post, and it had nothing to do with being bought by Sony. The studio revealed some more major changes coming to Destiny 2 with the launch of the long anticipated Witch Queen expansion later this month. While the game’s crating system was the big topic...
Sony Is Spending 1.2 Billion To Keep Destiny 2 Devs From Leaving
3.2.2022
When Sony revealed its surprise $3.6 billion deal to buy Bungie, it was clear the PS5 manufacturer was paying a premium for the original creators of Halo and now Destiny 2. Now the company has revealed roughly a third of that price tag is actually just to pay Bungie developers so they don’t...
Destiny 2 Players Are Arguing Over Worm Babies
2.2.2022
Yesterday, Bungie revealed a bonkers new Exotic gun coming to Destiny 2 later this month in The Witch Queen: a grenade launcher called Parasite that shoots live Worm rounds (alien parasites shaped like giant slugs). It was an instant hit among the loot game’s faithful and has also ignited a debate...
Sony Acquires Bungie and Possibly Planning a Metaverse
2.2.2022
Sony Interactive Entertainment (SIE), the Japanese video game and online entertainment company, has decided to pay $3.6 billion for Bungie, the largest independent games developer. The PlayStation manufacturer’s statement comes two weeks after Microsoft announced its acquisition of Activision...