The Destiny 2 beta for PC is live right now, up through August 31. If you haven’t played it yet and you have a PC that can handle games at all, it’s worth checking out. I dove in to see how it looked and played, checking out the story content, as well as the quickplay multiplayer the three-player strike mission. Joey Davidson and I checked out the original Destiny at launch and found it...
Usually when a game’s release date changes, it means we’re going to end up waiting. Once in a while, though, a hotly anticipated game gets moved forward instead of pushed back. Destiny 2 just happens to be one of those, but it wasn’t a move Activision and Bungie made to thrill fans. It turns out there’s a very good reason. It’s because if they released it on a Friday as planned, we’d...
Alongside fan favorite Xbox 360 title Doritos Crash Course, a smaller and lesser-known title called Halo: Reach was added to the Xbox One’s backwards compatibility list a couple weeks back. I’ve only really gone back to play Spelunky and Pac-Mac CE DX+, but others players have put in some time with the Halo prequel and found its performance to be somewhat lacking. Where the game holds...
When I first played Destiny last fall I was immediately taken by how good the shooting felt and how good the game looked. The game’s leveling system and focus on grinding, among other things, put me off, and it was only a few weeks before I was done kicking the soccer ball around the Tower. Month after month, though, I watched my friends post about it on Twitter and Facebook, about the...
It might seem like Batman fans are the angriest gamers right now, but Destiny fans are giving them a run for their money. Following some pretty dismal interviews, Bungie has apologized officially and offered up a solution. Kind of. The short version is this: The first Destiny expansion to come out that isn’t part of the game’s initial season pass, The Taken King, is set to hit this...
The Collector's Edition of The Taken King has exclusive content that you can't get anywhere else. It's also $80.
Sir Paul McCartney famously provided the theme song "Hope For the Future" for Bungie's Destiny in preparations for the game's release, and now he has just released what has to be the laziest music video on the face of the Earth through Wired. How is it lazy? Well, let's just say that Bungie just needed to choreograph a few minutes of Destiny footage, using a handful of character models...
An unnamed executive at the studio behind Destiny and the first few games in the Halo series woke up early Thursday morning very confused about why there was a helicopter above and police officers surrounding his home. It turns out the Bungie executive had been swatted. The exec is the latest in a string of incidents known as swatting: Someone places a false call to police, reporting...
You just can't keep the gaming crowd down, can you Bungie? Not even a day after the infamous "Epic Loot Cave" in Destiny was nerfed in an update, over-anxious players have already found a replacement. PS4 Trophies has a video showing exactly how to find the Loot Cave 2.0 in the Earth Map's Rocket Yard, and with it, it explains how to exploit the six-second spawn rate. The drop rates...
Call this one awkward. Back when Bungie and Activision were making the ten year contract for publication rights of the Destiny franchise, the two companies came to a deal that would grant Bungie an extra $2.5 million "Quality Bonus" if the game scored high enough on review aggregate sites. Apparently, as reported by Kotaku, if the game scored at least a 90 percent on GameRankings.com,...