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Bungie temporarily put a highly sought after weapon up for sale in Destiny last week, and the resulting stampede of interests demonstrates the ongoing interest in Activision’s title. The Ice Breaker sniper rifle was for one weekend offered for sale by in-game vendor Xur. The result? 1,143,320 were purchased by …
Read More »Meet the voice behind Destiny’s Eris Morn
We speak to Morla Gorrondona about her journey into voice acting and working with Bungie on last year’s smash hit new IP
Read More »Destiny approaching 13m players
Bungie has released a slew of statistics for Destiny, revealing that nearly 13m people have played the online FPS. As of the studio’s post earlier today, the game boasts 12,869,066 players across Playstation and Xbox console platforms that have created 22,932,276 guardians and logged 872,404,449 hours collectively. Destiny’s Crota’s End …
Read More »Destiny locks multiplayer event behind a paywall
The first paid expansion to Destiny has been released – and with it comes a punishment for non-DLC buying players. Destiny each week offers players the chance to take part in an Heroic Strike event that offers high-level gear rewards for top players. However, Polygon reports that this week’s offering …
Read More »Bungie says it can be difficult to review modern games
Interconnected, heavily socialised games such as Destiny are asking questions of how the press reviews games. That’s according to Bungie COO Pete Parsons who has told Games Industry that the current way in which games are reviewed doesn’t give titles like Destiny a fair crack of the whip. I think …
Read More »343 boss apologizes for ongoing Halo: Master Chief Collection online struggles
Two weeks on from its release, Xbox One shooter Halo: The Master Chief Collection is not working properly. Malfunctioning releases seem to be very much the fashion this Q4, and 343 studio boss Bonnie Ross has personally apologised for the ongoing saga. We have not delivered the experience you deserve. …
Read More »Police called to fake hostage crisis at Bungie exec’s house
Unnamed member of Destiny developer awoken by police helicopter and armed response unit
Read More »Destiny surpasses 9.5 million registered players
Publisher confirms work has begun on sequel after record financial quarter
Read More »Destiny hits 9.5m registered users, Destiny 2 already in development
Activision has said that Bungie’s shooter Destiny has attracted 9.5m registered users since its September 9th release. The publisher says that makes it the largest new IP launch in history and ranks among the ten largest video game launches ever in the US. However, when pressed by analyst Andrew Crum …
Read More »Destiny content was not cut to sell as DLC, Bungie insists
Bungie has insisted that it did not cut any content from shooter Destiny so it could sell it at an additional premium as DLC. Gamers last month discovered a way to access a number of placeholder names in the shipped game that appeared to flag up where additional content will …
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