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Bungie sent out a major press release today discussing their future plans and it looks pretty exciting. "Bungie Prepares for Future Growth in 2021 with Studio Expansion, Key Talent Investments, and New Board Members" All the details can be found on their website, and the speculation and conversation can be found on our forum.
Bungie and Riot Games have teamed up to sue GatorCheats, an entity that develops cheating software for Destiny 2 and Valorant. Oof, they are bringing the heat too. Polygon has an article laying it all out, along with the filed legal documents. It's 24 pages long. Page 22 begins the damages Bungie and Riot are looking for and they aren't playing around. Want to discuss this? Swing by our forums and opine.
Today begins the second annual #Game2Give charity event in support of the Bungie Foundation and Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals. They are kicking things off with a streaming marathon so stop by and help them reach their donation goals. You can see the streaming schedule, milestone rewards and donation incentives. CHECK IT OUT.
UPDATE: Bungie has reached their first milestone of $250K and released concept art for the Dawning Titan Universal Armor Ornament. The $500K milestone was also met, which gave us the Warlock Ornament.
UPDATE: The 750K milestone was reached so the Hunter armor was released.
UPDATE: The 1M milestone was reached and Bungie showed us an upcoming fusion rifle.
Wait, is the Season of Arrivals over already? Time sure flies, doesn't it?
Fortunately, Bungie has release a rather... "cool" look into the new ice abilities and content coming with their Beyond Light expansion. Tread carefully if you wish to avoid story spoilers and reveals, however, as this ViDoc will surely be on thin ice for those who prefer to stay dark for that kind of stuff. Oh, and speaking of Darkness, this ViDoc also contains insight into the Season of the Hunt, and the type of story exploration (and horde-style event) that we can expect from that.
Take a look, then feel free to discuss what makes Darkness dark on our forum!
Bungie is celebrating Bungie Day with details about the upcoming Moments of Triumph, launching later this month. Lots of goodies, both in-game and out, are or will soon be available - go read for more details! The Bungie Store has special items available (history suggests you should buy soon if you're interested), and the post also contains some great-looking Forsaken-themed wallpapers. Happy Bungie Day!
OS_Epsilon stopped by with a pretty amazing fan creation, in celebration of Bungie Day - it might need a little explanation. When the Music of the Spheres was written, accompanying poetry was commissioned from poet Malcolm Guite. Because of the issues with the release of MoTS over the years, this poetry was never released... until now. With narration by My Name is Byf and Moonvald, and some very nice visuals, you can enjoy the first of these poems on YouTube (or above, embedded). Malcolm Guite wrote up his own thoughts of this release (and some more details about the poetry itself) on his website. There's a 17mb booklet that goes along with this release, containing the first poem (The Moon) - we've made a local copy available so that you don't have to navigate MediaFire.
It's a new year, which means the Game Developers Conference is right around the corner! (Well, nearly - it takes place in mid-March.) Sessions are now online, and five of them feature Bungie employees this year:
If you're going to be near San Francisco in March, put this on your calendar!
Urk has managed to process and post the latest Bungie podcast (on iTunes, or direct via Bungie RSS) before the Destiny 2 Beta begins tomorrow, so you can go listen to Luke Smith, Mark Noseworthy, Eric Osborne, and Robert Engeln discuss everything from carrying your friends to Chipotle meat goals. Great talk - find 45 minutes and listen! Thanks, electricpirate.
Luke Smith, Mark Noseworthy, and Eric Osborne gathered to discuss everything from PBJ fixings to the direction of the Destiny franchise - and you can listen via the latest Bungie Podcast. There's a discussion thread on our forum, as well.
Before the Destiny 2 fun begins, we're bringing the Bungie Podcast back to life to reacquaint you with the team - and their PBJ preferences. https://t.co/ltZpJh7EN8
— Bungie (@Bungie) May 15, 2017
Swing by Bungie.net and read about the goodies on offer for Bungie Day! The Year 2 Moments of Triumph book is now available, and if you haven't finished the tasks within, you've got until September 20 to do so! New schwag is available in the Bungie Store, and buying it this week nets you a pretty cool in-game emblem. There's plenty more, so go and see! (We have a local copy as well, since this is the standard This Week At Bungie post this week, too.)
If you hadn't gotten a chance to see the discussion panel streamed last week on Bungie's Twitch channel (and archived there a day later) - maybe, say, because Twitch is blocked at work - you can watch it now, on YouTube (or embedded below). All of the streaming content is stored on this channel, eventually (including, for example, the Bungie Bounty event that took place this past Monday) - bookmark it, and check back each week for new goodies! Thanks, Korny.
One of the Bungie talks to be given at GDC this year is a look at the UI design of Destiny, presented by longtime UI guru Dave Candland. The preview vid released to promote this is really fun (and contains lots of tidbits showing the evolution of the interface, for folks who want to pore over details) - go give it a look! Thanks, breitzen.
Harold Ryan has stepped down as CEO of Bungie today, and Pete Parsons has been appointed as the new CEO. Pete issued a short statement about the change:
I want to personally thank Harold for his friendship, passion, hard work, and dedication in helping make Bungie the great company it is today. As a team, we celebrated many victories and weathered many storms.
To the players of Destiny, I want you to know that my number one priority, and Bungie’s, is and always has been to deliver great games that we can all share together. I believe that Destiny is a one-of-a-kind experience. I also believe you have yet to see our studio’s best work. My new role here at the studio will be entirely focused on fulfilling that promise.
Congratulations to Pete! No word if Harold will be staying with Bungie.
It's July 7th again, and Bungie is celebrating! For those that don't want to read the whole article:
How did you celebrate Bungie Day?
Playstation is kicking off a new series of interviews, called 'Conversations with Creators'. They look to be roundtable discussions with Wil Wheaton as the moderator. Episode 1 will feature Bungie, with Jason Jones, Luke Smith, Ryan Ellis, and Jason Sussman participating. It airs on July 7, and the official page has just a Wheaton-hosted promo... but Facebook has a 90-second excerpt from the interview itself - this looks to be fantastic!
First look at episode 1 of Conversations with Creators, featuring the Bungie team that created Destiny. Series premieres July 7th! bit.ly/1C9a14j
Posted by PlayStation on Wednesday, July 1, 2015
The Bungie Store is currently taking pre-orders for a special edition Nepal Aid T-Shirt. The shirt costs $24.99 and you’ll receive a custom in-game shader and emblem. 100% of the profits will be donated to charities involved with relief efforts in Nepal. The last day to order one of these t-shirts is May 24th and they will start shipping in early June. Help support those in need!
The Bungie Weekly Update recaps the Trials of Osiris reveal and highlights some of the Crucible tweaks and changes players can expect after downloading the 1.2.0 update on May 19th. Players who did not purchase The Dark Below will have access to all three PVP maps - neat! Also, be sure to check out how you provide aid to the people of Nepal though the Bungie Foundation. Next stop, The Prison of Elders! Thanks, CyberKN. (It's local, too)
The Bungie Weekly Update is live and is chock full of House of Wolves information. There’s a concise summary of what Bungie presented during the live-stream of the Reef (the stream is also archived). There’s also an update on the changes being made to commendations with the release of HoW - woo! The next Iron Banner will start with the weekly reset and DeeJ has the scoop on what gear you’ll be working towards. Be sure to also check out the latest Destiny support update! Lastly, don’t forget to tune in on April 29th at 11am PST for a first look at the Trials of Osiris. (For those who need it, it's local, too.)
The GDC Vault, an archive of GDC presentations, has released 7 (!) Bungie presentations from this year's conference - go peruse them for some insight into the building of Destiny:
The last one is a video of a panel discussion, but the rest are all Powerpoint presentations (and text transcripts). Thanks to INSANEdrive for pointing these out!
Gamespot has posted the recording of Chris Butcher's talk at GDC this year titled "Destiny: Six Years in the Making." You can watch it over on their site or on their Youtube channel, and here is Bungie's own description of the talk:
At Bungie, we built games based on the Halo engine for ten years. However, by 2008 it was beginning to show its age and there were many core systems that were ill-suited to a modern game development environment. For our new game, Destiny, we sought to develop an engine that would last us just as long as the Halo engine had. This talk will cover the six-year development arc of the Destiny engine, from inception to ship.
(Thanks to uberfoop for posting about it on the forum, even if I didn't notice until after the fact!)