Destiny 2 (PS4) News Articles
Friday28th Nov 2025
News Ahead of Renegades Launch, Destiny 2 Dev Explains New Approach to Expansions
"We don't want to be a dead live game"
Next week, on 2nd December, a new expansion pack for Destiny 2 arrives. It's called Renegades, it's heavily inspired by Star Wars, and developer Bungie is hoping it'll begin to turn the sci-fi shooter's fortunes around. Early signs are pretty good, as the expansion is firmly within the top five pre-order...
Wednesday26th Nov 2025
News In Destiny 2's Darkest Moment, Bungie Is Betting on Star Wars to Bring Players Back
Renegades does look good, to be fair
It’s no secret that Destiny 2 has fallen on some pretty hard times. Chaos within the company’s upper-management, a dwindling player base, and bad decisions have caused Sony to step in and start to enforce its influence over the $3 billion developer. The Japanese giant recently noted during a financial call...
Wednesday10th Sep 2025
News Destiny 2 Does Its Best Star Wars Impression with Renegades Expansion
A guardian far, far away
You can learn a lot about the public sentiment for Destiny 2 by reading the YouTube comments for this new Renegades expansion. “I’ll just keep playing Helldivers 2,” several of them say. And to think Sony spent $3.5 billion on developer Bungie for its live service expertise, eh? Look, with Marathon delayed it’s
Thursday22nd May 2025
News Bungie Leaders Reportedly Pitched Destiny 2 Subscription, But Got 'Vehemently' Shut Down
Former staff speak out against Bungie's leadership
Marathon developer Bungie has come under fire in recent weeks over an artwork scandal and it seems more dirty laundry is being aired about past internal operations of the studio now owned by Sony. Game journalist Destin Legarie has released a new video featuring allegations from former Bungie...
Wednesday7th May 2025
News Destiny 2 Travels to a Galaxy Far, Far Away in Star Wars Themed Expansion on PS5, PS4
Bungie lays out future of its first-person shooter
Bungie is not pulling the plug on Destiny 2, which at least relieves some of the pressure on its upcoming extraction shooter, Marathon. As part of a livestream this week, the Sony subsidiary revealed the full-extent of its plans for the first-person shooter, including two expansion packs – one of...
Wednesday29th Jan 2025
News Star Wars Items Turn Destiny 2 Guardians into Stormtroopers
Make your Ghost a Death Star
Bungie has announced a Star Wars collaboration will bring newly themed items, emotes, and armour pieces to Destiny 2 next week. There'll be new emotes and finishers for players to equip from 4th February 2025, but mostly importantly, the three classes of Titan, Hunter, and Warlock will all receive their own armour set...
Wednesday13th Nov 2024
News Street Fighter 6 Brings Ryu, Chun-Li, Cammy to Destiny 2 in Themed Items
Emotes, Ghost shells, and finishers from 19th November
Three classic Street Fighter characters will be used as inspiration for a set of newly themed items in Destiny 2. On 19th November 2024, Ryu, Chun-Li, and Cammy will be brought to the Bungie universe by way of new emotes, finishers, and Ghost shells, presumably purchasable using real money. You...
Monday9th Sep 2024
News Bungie Commits to Destiny 2 DLC and Support Through 2026
Two expansions and four free content updates per year
Bungie has revealed it has plans to support Destiny 2 with new content — both paid-for and free — through until at least 2026, as it announces a change in how it approaches and distributes its post-launch expansions. Instead of building up to an annual DLC release, the developer confirms it...
Tuesday7th May 2024
News Destiny 2 'Expansion Open Access' Announced, Could Be the Perfect Time to Dive Back In
Is this destiny
PlayStation and Bungie have announced a new Destiny 2 initiative, in which three of the game's big expansions will be completely free to play. Shadowkeep (2019), Beyond Light (2020), and The Witch Queen (2022), are all being made available. Meanwhile, Lightfall, the game's most r
Wednesday10th Apr 2024
News Destiny 2: The Final Shape Introducing New Enemy Faction, Subclass Mixing
The shape of things to come
Destiny 2 players were treated to several welcome surprises during Bungie's The Final Shape developer gameplay preview, which seems to have injected the community with some much-needed hype. The first new faction the game has seen in years has been revealed, along with the Prismatic subclass, which will allow Guardians to...
Wednesday3rd Apr 2024
News Bungie Announces Destiny 2: The Final Shape Showcase for Next Week
Beginning to take shape
Embattled developer Bungie will showcase The Final Shape, Destiny 2's latest, last, and perhaps most important expansion, next Tuesday, providing an update on the in-development project. The Final Shape was originally supposed to launch in February 2024 but was hit with a delay alongside last year's layoffs. Bungie invites...
Monday11th Mar 2024
News Fancy Ghostbusters Items Up Next in Destiny 2
There's a custom Ghost, Sparrow, and more
In collaboration with next week's Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire movie hitting cinemas, Destiny 2 will be getting in on the supernatural fun with some themed items for the looter shooter. Unlike it's recent hoverboard update, though, these are more likely to appear in the premium Eververse store rather than be...
Friday1st Mar 2024
News Free Hoverboards Is the Best News Destiny 2's Had in Quite Some Time
But do they work on water?
Destiny 2 is getting hoverboards! And they're free! Yep, in a bid to try and drum up some excitement for the shooter's upcoming seasonal stuff, Bungie has revealed that hoverboards — or 'skimmers', a new form of transportation — will be made available to all players. Although if you want additional boards, you'll...
Wednesday31st Jan 2024
News Mass Effect Collaboration Inbound for Destiny 2 in February on PS5, PS4
Join the crew of the Normandy in Destiny 2
In a crossover we were shocked to discover hasn't happened before, Mass Effect is coming to Destiny 2 in a collaboration between BioWare and Bungie, out on 13th February. Guardians can gear up with some N7-themed armour sets inspired by Commander Shepard, Garrus Vakarian, and Liara T'Soni for Titans,...
Monday22nd Jan 2024
News Bungie Will Finally Let You Change Your Appearance in Destiny 2
Soon
Destiny 2 turns seven years old later this year, launching in 2017 on PS4. Die-hard fans who rolled a dud of a character, like an overly-edgy Awoken or a dorky-looking Exo, will finally be able to change up their character's appearance in an upcoming update, due sometime before June's The Final Shape expansion. In a blog post, Bungie...
Wednesday29th Nov 2023
News Destiny 2's Pricey Witcher 3 Crossover Armour Sets Remain Undeniably Cool
The Witcher Effect
We've noted previously the coolness of Destiny 2's upcoming The Witcher 3 crossover content, which features stylish cosmetic armour sets inspired by Geralt of Rivia's own. Available now, we have a trailer showing them in action and are beginning to understand why Bungie is charging such a
Wednesday22nd Nov 2023
'Micro'-transactions
As noted in our coverage of the reveal, Destiny 2's new, The Witcher 3-inspired crossover cosmetics look cool, but knowing the general state of microtransactions in live service games, they're probably going to cost a small fortune. Taking that thought and running with it, players are already dragging Bungie's plans through the...
Tuesday21st Nov 2023
News Alright, Destiny 2's Witcher 3 Crossover Armour Is Cool
Make a wish
We'll admit, it's been quite some time since we wrote anything genuinely positive about Destiny 2, but we're willing to give it up for this newly revealed crossover. Bungie's teamed with CD Projekt Red to craft some really cool looking cosmetics based on The Witcher 3, which decks out Titans, Warlocks, and Hunters in armour that...
Friday3rd Nov 2023
News Bungie Acknowledges Destiny 2 Concerns Following Layoffs
"We know we have lost a lot of your trust"
Bungie has released a statement, the first since the news of layoffs at the Destiny 2 studio broke earlier this week, with around 100 staff impacted. The fallout from the move has led some players to demand refunds for DLC in protest, ad
Wednesday1st Nov 2023
News Interest in Destiny 2 Reportedly at an All-Time Low
Employees begged for positive changes
Player sentiment surrounding Destiny 2 has never been worse, a new IGN report claims. As part of an article detailing the unfortunate round of layoffs at developer Bungie, it is suggested players are looking elsewhere off the back of the game's disappointing Lightfall expansion and follow-up seasons. Sources...
News Bungie Layoffs Reportedly Impacted Around 100 Staff, Revenue 45% Below 2023 Projection
Decision came from Bungie management, not Sony
New reporting suggests this week's layoffs at Bungie, the Sony-owned developer behind Destiny 2, have impacted around 100 staff members, or roughly 8% of the studio's headcount. Bloomberg reports that executives at Bungie told employees two weeks ago that Destiny 2 was running some 45% below revenue...
Tuesday15th Aug 2023
News Destiny 2 Will Try to Win Back Some Positivity with Its Annual Showcase Next Week
Taking shape
Bungie has announced that it'll be hosting its annual Destiny 2 Showcase next week, on the 22nd August. Naturally, it'll feature fresh info on The Final Shape — the shooter's next expansion — Season 22 of the game, the next reprised raid, and "more". If you've been keeping up with Destiny 2, you'll know that things have been more...
Friday11th Aug 2023
News Keith David Will Succeed Lance Reddick as Destiny's Commander Zavala
Reddick's lines will remain unchanged
Bungie has announced that experienced voice actor Keith David will succeed the late Lance Reddick in the role of Commander Zavala in Destiny 2. Reddick passed away back in March, aged 60. In a blog post, Bungie announced that David would be taking up the mantle as the English voice of Commander Zavala through...
Friday28th Jul 2023
News Glorbo Comes to Destiny 2, Pantsing Another AI Website Along the Way
Glorbo-mania sweeps the globe
While admittedly insufferable at times, an advantage that living, breathing video game journalists have over their relentless AI competitors is the fear of being wrong publicly, which is a powerful motivator for us fragile flesh bags. If you don't know what a Glorbo is, good, it means you passed the test. "Glorbo" is...
Monday22nd May 2023
News Sony's Bungie Buyout Puts PS5, PS4 Themed Items in the Destiny 2 Store
Available on all platforms
Here's an example of something that probably wouldn't have happened without Sony spending $3.6 billion on Destiny 2 developer Bungie: some neat, purchasable items in the Eververse Store themed around iconic PlayStation franchises. If you have ever wanted to turn your Titan, Hunter, or Warlock into Kratos from God of War,...
Friday5th May 2023
News Despite Being Bought by Sony, Bungie Increases Destiny 2's Season Pass Pricing
Inflation arrives
Even the freshly minted Bungie, acquired by Sony for over $3 billion, is feeling the economic pinch it appears. Buried among a frankly frightening deluge of information, the legendary developer revealed that it’ll be bumping the price of its Season Passes moving forwards. Beginning with Season 21, you’ll have to pay 1,200...
Tuesday18th Apr 2023
News Bungie Taking 'Breach of Trust' Within Destiny 2 Creator Community 'Extremely Seriously'
Solar Banhammer
Following a Destiny 2 content leak at a recent creator summit, developer Bungie has put its foot down, promising to get tougher in the future. A high-profile Destiny 2 streamer and YouTuber, Ekuegan, has reportedly been accused by the company of leaking information pertaining to the Bungie Community Summit in a private Discord...
Monday10th Apr 2023
Candid comments
Destiny 2's latest expansion, Lightfall, has rubbed some players the wrong way, with developer Bungie copping to some of the criticism and responding to feedback in a blog post. The mea culpa reflects on the events of the past month within the larger Destiny-verse and touches on some franchise milestones. Destiny 2 saw its "highest...
Sunday19th Mar 2023
News Destiny Fans Come Together to Pay Tribute to Lance Reddick's Commander Zavala
A virtual vigil
Following the premature passing of iconic actor Lance Reddick earlier this week, Destiny fans have come together to pay tribute to the actor, and his in-game alter-ego Commander Zavala. Screenshots shared online show dozens upon dozens of players all sitting in quiet contemplation at a virtual vigil, gathered around the character in...
Thursday23rd Feb 2023
News Bungie Emerges Victorious in Multi-Million Dollar Lawsuit Against Destiny 2 Cheat Site
Lord Shaxx approves
Developer Bungie has been engaged in a lawsuit against a website named AimJunkies, which sold cheats to Destiny 2 players for several months now. It looks like the studio has come out on top, though, with Bungie being awarded $4.3 million in arbitration. Cheating in Destiny has been an issue over the last several years,...
