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7 Things To Do In Destiny 2 Before Lightfall
7.2.2023
Destiny 2: Lightfall is just around the corner. If you don’t feel like taking a break before the new expansion or are trying to get back into Destiny ahead of the new release, here’s some things you can do to keep busy and prepare ahead of February 28.Read more
7 New Destiny 2 Exotics Coming In Lightfall
31.1.2023
Destiny 2: Lightfall is just a few weeks away and Bungie finally pulled back the curtain on what players can expect from the expansion’s growing Exotic arsenal. A new trailer revealed three pieces of armor, three weapons, and a new catalyst for the Deluxe Edition exclusive, Quicksilver Storm.Read...
Bungie Explains Destiny 2's Recent 20-Hour Outage
27.1.2023
Two days ago, Bungie turned off the Destiny 2 servers while the studio looked into a problem that had players apparently losing progress on in-game challenges. This outage lasted a bit longer than everyone expected, with the free-to-play loot shooter remaining offline for nearly 20 hours. So what...
Destiny 2 Is Starting To Feel Like It’s Held Together With Duct Tape
25.1.2023
Free-to-play online MMO looter shooter Destiny 2, released in 2017, is one of my favorite video games. I play it all the time. I have multiple characters. I own all the recent seasons. It’s fantastic. But I’d be lying if I said I wasn’t concerned for the game’s future, as with each passing season...
343, Hit By Layoffs And Key Departures, Says It Will Keep Making Halo
22.1.2023
When Microsoft—a company that made “$198 billion in revenue and $83 billion in operating income” in 2022—made the decision to axe 10,000 workers last week, a number of those came from their video game operations, particularly 343 Studios, the overseers of the Halo series.Read more
Destiny 2 Finally Unlocks One Of The Most Confusing Parts Of The Game
12.1.2023
Destiny 2 is fixing a bunch of stuff for the month and change ahead of February’s massive Lightfall expansion. Players won’t have to grind so much to get into Grandmaster Nightfall missions. Iron Banner will be much more generous with armor drops in the weeks ahead. And armor mods, one of the most...
Alyssa Mercante’s Top 10 Games Of 2022
16.12.2022
2022 wasn’t just the year that I started here at Kotaku, or the year that I accidentally went viral for daring to ask rich guys to dress nice at awards shows—it was also the year that I forced myself to stretch outside of my comfort zone.Read more
Destiny 2 Director Hears Players ‘Loud And Clear’ On Seasonal Burnout
8.12.2022
Destiny 2’s latest season just went live earlier this week, and players are already feeling super bummed out about it. In many ways it feels like just another reskin of the same hamster wheel we’ve been running on for years, and the burnout is more real than ever. The good news is that Bungie says...
2022 Was The Year The Video Game Industry Ate Itself
6.12.2022
The video game industry went on a shopping spree in 2021. Epic Games bought Mediatonic (Fall Guys), Sony bought Housemarque (Returnal), and Embracer bought Gearbox (Borderlands). It seemed like things might slow down in 2022, but instead they ramped up even more into an acquisition free-for-all....
343 Releases Previously Unseen Images From Halo 2 Development
24.11.2022
In Halo, “the sandbox” often refers to the weapons and vehicles on a map at any given time: all the toys you have to play with. But for a whole other set of Halo fans, that sandbox is the game itself. Be it through Forge or ambitious modding projects like SPV3, playing with the very core of...
Destiny 2 Fans Think Infamous Exotic Is Buggy On Purpose To Tease New Mystery
9.11.2022
Destiny 2 players are an absurd but lovable bunch, perhaps never more so than when they become obsessed with trying to unravel one of the sprawling space MMO’s new secrets. And after a long drought, fans think they may have stumbled upon one. Telesto, the most bugged Exotic in the game’s history...
Bungie Tells PS5 Players To Stop Playing The PS4 Version Of Destiny 2
3.11.2022
Bungie, the studio behind Destiny 2 and the older Halo games, has a public service announcement for all of its PlayStation 5 guardians: Double check that you are actually playing the PS5 version of the game and not the PS4 version! Don’t feel bad if you are playing the wrong version though, Sony...
Destiny 2’s Halloween Event Is On Fire
19.10.2022
Destiny 2’s annual spooky loot event is back and it’s a mess. Festival of the Lost went live yesterday riddled with issues from a bug that blocked quest progress to players being saddled with old, obsolete loot. It was not good, especially for an event that is mostly unchanged from the year prior...
Destiny 2 Goes Full Anime With Haunted Gundam Armor
13.10.2022
Destiny 2’s big spooky event is just around the corner, and Bungie finally teased the new mech-inspired armor players will be chasing. Some people get Ultraman vibes. Others see Power Rangers. But I’m getting a big dose of Gundam, and I’m super pumped about it.Read more
Destiny 2’s Most Powerful Exotic Gets Controversial Downgrade
7.10.2022
Destiny 2’s Exotic Trace Rifle Divinity has been the backbone of a lot of players’ arsenals for end game content ever since it was first introduced back in the Shadowkeep expansion in 2019. Yesterday, Bungie finally announced a long-awaited nerf to how powerful it is, and while many are welcoming...
Game Devs And Stadia Employees Alike Were Blindsided By The Sudden Shutdown
30.9.2022
Few thought Google’s troubled streaming service, Stadia, might ever become a dominant player in the gaming industry, but almost no one expected it to shut down so abruptly, including the company’s own employees. Stadia VP Phil Harrison, fast becoming the grim reaper of new gaming initiatives...
One Of The Biggest Reasons To Play Destiny 2 Right Now Is Bugged
28.9.2022
There have been a fair number of complaints about Destiny 2’s Season of Plunder, but for the most part I’ve been having a blast. So it’s a major bummer that one of the main reasons to play right now appears bugged for the second week in a row. An upgrade that’s key to overcoming Destiny’s terrible...
T-Pain Tells Awful Apex Legends Players To Touch Grass, Stop Harassing Developers
27.9.2022
It’s not often that a rapper goes to bat for a video game developer after a disgruntled fan base enacts gross harassment, but not all rappers are built like T-Pain.Read more
Destiny 2 Gives Up On New Challenge, Tacitly Admitting There's A Much Bigger Problem
22.9.2022
Destiny 2’s Season of Plunder has been a surprisingly enjoyable romp through space pirate fantasy so far, but it hasn’t been without its issues. The biggest one yet materialized this week when a new story quest required players to kill 50 champions before they could progress. Bungie decided...
Destiny 2 Cheat Developer Claims Bungie Hacked Them In New Lawsuit
21.9.2022
It’s been a wild week for hackers making off with video game studios’ private files and using publishers’ services for their own gain. But this time, it’s a major studio accused of doing the hacking. A group of Destiny 2 cheat makers are suing Bungie for hacking into one of their computers. They...