I am through day one of Destiny Rising after its launch yesterday, and while I could do an initial review, I am still on content I was doing in the alpha tests, with a few exceptions, so that can wait a bit. I will, however, address something I’m already seeing crop up among Destiny 2 players that have headed over …
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Bungie has walked back its Destiny 2 Portal nerfs after community backlash, calling the approach “too conservative,” and outlined some reward buffs coming with the Ash & Iron update. Bungie has pulled a hard U-turn on last week’s controversial Portal tuning. After announcing nerfs to Solo Ops power gains and Exotic mission rewards, the studio says its approach was “too …
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Last week, Bungie detailed Destiny 2’s Desert Perpetual Epic raid. Now we’ve got a first look at leaked rewards, including a Heavy grenade launcher, an Exotic Sparrow, and more. The Epic version of The Desert Perpetual raid goes live on Saturday, September 20, at 10 AM PT with a full World First race and a 48-hour Contest Mode. Bungie says …
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On Friday of this week, Chinese Marvel Rivals studio NetEase will launch Destiny Rising, a mobile adaptation of the series, and the first new Destiny game since 2017. It has had a number of alphas to test it out and the reaction has been…surprisingly positive from most Destiny players. Destiny Rising is a competent shooter if you’re grading on a …
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While we know that Destiny 2 would endure some growing pains as it entered its new slimmed-down Prophecy era, I’m not sure that players would have predicted that one aspect would be this painful. That is the power grind, where it takes a whole lot of work to even do the “normal” grind to 400 to start getting decently good …
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Bungie CEO Pete Parsons is leaving after 23 years. Fellow veteran Justin Truman will take over as the storied Halo studio struggles with flagging interest in Destiny 2, the delayed launch of Marathon, and a painful Sony integration following a sky-high $3.6 billion acquisition back in 2022. “After more than two decades of helping build this incredible studio, establishing the …
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A Destiny 2 World’s First winner says they were banned with no explanation from the developer. Bungie has been cracking down hard after the Desert Perpetual Contest Mode raid, issuing bans against players who cheated and even those who ran with cheaters. The studio publicly warned that completions earned alongside cheaters could be punished, then followed with a ban wave …
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Once again I begin a Destiny 2 article with a sigh, as I keep trying to give the Edge of Fate and its new era the benefit of the doubt, but every day we find some new bug or bad decision that’s happening and messing up the experience. If you’ve played any Portal activity, you may understand the following (or …
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Bungie confirms a new Destiny 2 bug making Titan and Warlock supers take massive damage from bosses, calling it an “unintentional oversight” after the Edge of Fate update. Destiny 2’s newest expansion, The Edge of Fate, launched last month with huge changes, new content, and some of the most ambitious system overhauls the game has seen in years. From the …
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Destiny: Rising has crossed 10 million pre-registrations ahead of its August 28 launch, unlocking all milestone rewards, including an exotic weapon ornament. Destiny: Rising, the upcoming mobile spin on Bungie’s sci-fi shooter series, is getting closer to its big day. Developed by NetEase in collaboration with Bungie, the game officially launches worldwide on August 28, 2025, for iOS and Android. …
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