Our latest coverage of Bungie.
Destiny 2 game director Joe Blackburn is leaving Bungie to embark on “a new adventure” after 10 years with the studio and four years as the MMO shooter’s director. “As a deeply invested Guardian before starting here at Bungie, getting to be a part of the Destiny 2 team has been the privilege of a lifetime,” he tweeted. “I am [...]
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More information has come to light on the mass layoffs at Bungie and the subsequent delay of Destiny 2’s The Final Shape expansion and in-development extraction shooter Marathon. Bloomberg reports that 100 of the Sony-owned studio’s 1200 employees were laid off as a direct result of a massive drop in the studio’s annual revenue. Bungie CEO Pete Paterson reportedly told [...]
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Bungie is the latest studio to succumb to the financial challenges sweeping across the video game and tech industries. The Sony-owned company has reportedly suffered massive layoffs resulting in delayed projects and updates. Bloomberg reports that Destiny 2’s The Final Shape expansion has been delayed from February 2024 to June 2024. Bungie’s upcoming extraction shooter Marathon has also been pushed [...]
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Bungie continues its legal battle winning streak as the company once again emerges victorious in a lawsuit against a Destiny 2 player who harassed a community manager. The judge awards Bungie nearly half a million dollars in damages and fees, highlighting the severity of the player's racist and threatening behavior. In its complaint, Bungie revealed that the player embarked on [...]
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Bungie has won yet another multi-million dollar legal battle against Destiny 2 cheat makers. Well, partly won anyway. The studio has just been awarded $4.3 million in damages and fees as part of a string of lawsuits against AimJunkies and its parent company Phoenix Digital. The judge presiding over the arbitration process found the cheat maker, specifically one of its [...]
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Bungie is reportedly working on several unannounced projects thanks to the additional support from Sony following the latter’s acquisition of the Destiny 2 developer last year. The news comes by way of a series of tweets from Senior Design Lead Tom Farnsworth inviting developers to join their team to work on the said projects. “And with the support of Sony [...]
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Bungie is entering the legal arena once again as it files yet another lawsuit, this time against a Destiny 2 player for copyright infringement, fraud, and harassment. According to the lawsuit, Leone has allegedly dodged account bans by repeatedly creating new accounts, which Bungie claims can be considered as serial fraud. The defendant, Luca Leone, is a known serial cheater [...]
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Back in March, Bungie filed a lawsuit against several individuals responsible for the mass DMCA takedowns that brought down multiple Destiny 2 official videos as well as fan-made and partner content on YouTube. The defendants have since been narrowed down to just one person. The individual, identified as Nick Minor, is now facing a $7.6 million lawsuit for copyright infringement, [...]
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After getting a copyright infringement suit against Destiny 2 cheat maker AimJunkies dismissed last month, Bungie is now on the cusp of receiving a $13.5 million settlement from another group of cheat makers for alleged copyright infringement. The lawsuit was filed back in August against Elite Boss Tech, 11020781 Canada Inc., and several other unnamed defendants. The settlement amount was [...]
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The Activision Blizzard and Microsoft merger apparently isn’t the only acquisition deal that’s under government scrutiny. The U.S. Federal Trade Commission is currently looking into Sony’s acquisition of Destiny 2 developer Bungie, specifically on the possibility that Bungie’s games might become PlayStation-exclusive following the merger. According to PCGamer, the FTC started their investigation at the end of April and is [...]
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