Congratulations to Michael Salvatori, Skye Lewin, and C. Paul Johnson, for their work on the Destiny: Rise of Iron score - it took home the 2017 Video Game Score of the Year last night at the 2017 ASCAP Screen Music Awards! (They shared this honor with Killer Instinct: Season 3, in a tie for 1st Place.)
The DICE Award Nominees were announced yesterday, and Destiny: The Taken King was nominated for three awards: Action Game of the Year, Outstanding Achievement in Online Gameplay, and Outstanding Achievement in Sound Design. The winners will be announced on February 18th.
Achievement Hunter Grudgingly Names Taken King GOTY
This year Achievement Hunter used math to help them decide their Top10 games, and they weren't very happy with the results, especially Destiny: The Taken King taking the #1 spot! Watch the video below:
AIGA, the professional association for design, hosted the 2015 Cased competition, and honored 15 design solutions that demonstrate the value of design. Destiny's User Interface was one of these solutions - congrats, Bungie! The writeup digs into how Bungie saw their challenges, and what they did to meet them; good reading! (There are also a bunch of links to articles that have been written along the way, in case you missed any of them.) Be sure to check out the rest of the winners, if you have interest in design - there are some spectacular entries in there!
Bungie took home the award for Best Game at the 2015 BAFTA ceremony today! That's a high honor from a classy contest. Korny pointed it out on our forum, as well as a BBC article on the matter. You can discover all the winners and find out more on the official BAFTA site.
Game Informer: Best Shooter, Best Co-Op Multiplayer
Looks like Destiny takes the cake for two categories in Game Informer awards list published today! Destiny takes Best Shooter and Best Cooperative Multiplayer for 2014.
The Game Awards were held last night (with a familiar composer in charge of the music) and Destiny managed to win two awards, Best Online Experience and Best Soundtrack! You can watch a replay of the event, or just see who the rest of the winners were.
Destiny may not have won any awards from critics or official awards at Gamescom, but it DID win one prestigious award: The People's Choice Award on IGN. Looks like some people are hyped for September 9th!
Destiny was the big winner at Gamescom - it took three awards, beating out Titanfall (which took 2) for most mentions. Congrats to the Bungie team for Best Console Game: Playstation, Best Action Game, and Best Online Multiplayer Game. And thanks to Hypertrooper, for bringing us the news!
Unfortunately Destiny didn't win best new IP or best graphics, but the nominations are still pretty neat. Gametrailers will announce 'Best of Show' today at 4pm PST.
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Looks like Destiny takes the cake for two categories in Game Informer awards list published today! Destiny takes Best Shooter and Best Cooperative Multiplayer for 2014.
Destiny has won the community-voted PlayStation.Blog 2014 Game of the Year award! (Thanks to Kermit in the forums for the heads-up).
The Game Awards were held last night (with a familiar composer in charge of the music) and Destiny managed to win two awards, Best Online Experience and Best Soundtrack! You can watch a replay of the event, or just see who the rest of the winners were.
Destiny may not have won any awards from critics or official awards at Gamescom, but it DID win one prestigious award: The People's Choice Award on IGN. Looks like some people are hyped for September 9th!
