Tag: Bungie
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...
News Destiny 3 Allegedly in 'Extremely Early Development', Could Be a Tentpole Title for PS6
But likely many years away
Rumour has it that Bungie has started preliminary work on Destiny 3, which if true would comfortably become one of Sony’s biggest releases for the PS6. The speculation comes courtesy of Colony Deaks, a known Destiny leaker and dataminer who’s revealed accurate information in the past. Writing on X (or Twitter), the...
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...
News The Much Maligned PS5 Shooter Marathon Returns for Another Playtest in December
Not a sprint
Bungie's sci-fi extraction shooter Marathon will soon be playable again for a limited time, and you can sign up to take part. The game has had a rough time of it, what with an art-related mishap and a general lack of interest, but the
News Sony Speaks on Bungie Acquisition Disaster, Takes an 'Impairment Loss'
Sales, user engagement fallen short of expectations
Sony's $3.6 billion purchase of Destiny 2 developer Bungie has, for all intents and purposes, been an utter disaster, and the PS5, PS4 hardware maker all but knows it at this point. Having bought the studio to assist its push into the live-service space, Sony has cancelled multiple multiplayer...
News Sony's Acquisition of Bungie Continues to Be Questioned as Destiny 2 Falls Off a Cliff
Again
Destiny 2, the ongoing live service shooter from Bungie, is seriously struggling to retain players right now. To be fair, the game does have a fairly sizeable DLC coming up in December — you know, the Star Wars one — but at the time of writing this article, there's some real doom and gloom surrounding Destiny 2 as a whole. A particularly...
News Bungie's Maligned FPS Marathon Makes Its Return in Closed Technical Test This Month
We go again
Sony’s got a lot riding on Marathon. It needs the game to be a success. It’s such a shame, then, that the title’s been a bit of a disaster so far. Aside from the drama involving stolen assets, the extraction shooter just hasn’t captured all that much mainstream attention. Look, we
News Bungie's Much Criticised Shooter Marathon Will Skip PS5's New State of Play
Gotta take a little time
Marathon, the upcoming multiplayer shooter from Bungie, will reportedly not be showing up at this week's State of Play broadcast. The studio's been reluctant to discuss its game for months now, following on from the disastrous revelation that the project had plagiarised a plethora of art assets. Bungie was forced to carry...
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
News Bungie Boss Pete Parsons Departs as Sony Starts to Take Control of Flagging Dev
Going through changes
Bungie boss Pete Parsons is out as the embattled developer continues to go through a significant shake-up. Sony recently said that it’ll be taking more control of the Marathon maker and will be integrating the studio under its PS Studios umbrella. After its acquisition, Bungie was granted autonomy separate from...
News Sony Controlling More of Marathon Dev Bungie, Will Be Integrated into PS Studios
Marathon to launch by April 2026
Sony has reiterated its intentions to take more ownership and control of Bungie as it looks to fully integrate the Destiny 2, Marathon developer into PS Studios. Following a string of controversies and failures, the studio update was shared by Sony CFO Lin Tao in the Q&A section of the company's latest financial...
News Bungie Delays Marathon Indefinitely, No New PS5, PC Release Date Given
Game needs more time to reflect player passion
Bungie has today confirmed it's issuing an indefinite delay to its upcoming PS5, PC extraction shooter Marathon. A new release date hasn't been revealed, but more news will be shared towards the end of 2025. In a post to the official Bungie website, the developer said: "Through every comment and...
News There's a Brutal Lack of Interest in Marathon from Hardcore PS5 Fans
Run for it
Sony's ill-advised live service push has resulted in pretty extreme skepticism from the PlayStation faithful — and it's really starting to look like Marathon will struggle to find any kind of footing with hardcore PS5 fans. Bungie's shooter was included in a big poll that we hosted on the site last week. We asked readers of Push Square...
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...
Rumour Bungie Targeting a Top Five 2025 Title with Marathon
Good luck
According to well-connected Bungie beat reporter Paul Tassi, the Sony studio has placed massive expectations on Marathon. Speaking as part of a video in which he outlines all the problems facing the upcoming extraction shooter, he said that he heard the game “needed to be in the top five of NPD sales for the year if it’s going to be a...
Studio said to be in free fall
It’s not been a good week for Marathon maker Bungie – but then it feels like we type out that sentence every couple of months anyway. Forbes claims morale at the Washington-based outfit is in “free fall” after it was accused of plagiarising art assets earlier this week. To the studio’s credit, it respond
News Bungie Conducting 'Thorough Review' After Plagiarised Art Is Found in Marathon
Not a good look
It’s not been a good 24 hours for Sony, with live service game Fairgames seemingly falling apart at the seams and Stellar Blade PC being blocked for sale in a whopping 129 countries. But now subsidiary Bungie has been forced to
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...
Video Everything You Need to Know About Marathon
See you starside
Bungie is taking a punt at the extraction shooter genre with Marathon, a PvPvE reimagining of its sci-fi series from the 90s. It was great to finally see the game in action with the recent showcase, but if we’re being honest, we don’t think Bungie really did the best job at explaining the deeper intricacies of its upcoming...
News The Future of Destiny 2 Will Be Revealed Soon, as Bungie Teases The Edge of Fate
A twist of fate
Bungie's a busy studio these days, isn't it? Having just handed us a full reveal of Marathon, the developer is now looking ahead to a big Destiny 2 event that's happening next month. We don't have much information to go on right at this moment, but we do know that the ongoing shooter's next expansion is called The Edge of Fate, and...
News Marathon Maker Thinks Players Are Too Toxic for Proximity Chat in New PS5 Game
"I don't think anyone has a good solution"
Bungie’s upcoming extraction shooter Marathon won’t have proximity chat when it launches on 23rd September, because the developer thinks players are too toxic to handle it. Proximity chat works by allowing you to overhear opponents when they’re nearby. This makes it a strategic feature, as gobby...
News PS5 Fans Give Bungie's Marathon the Cold Shoulder, 34% Say You'd Have to Pay Them to Play
Halo, goodbye
Sony and Bungie’s big new live service bet has been met with an icy reception from PS5’s core fanbase, with a staggering 34% of Push Square readers saying they’d need to be paid to play the title. Of the more than 2,000 fans polled, a further 37% said they don’t think the extraction shooter’s for them, with just 8% saying...
Poll Are You Planning to Buy Bungie's Marathon?
A Marathon, not a sprint
Bungie has revealed Marathon, a release which carries massive significance for both owner Sony and the Bellevue-based studio itself. The game, which will not be free-to-play but also won’t cost $70, will come with six character classes and three maps. It seems like a pretty puny offering at launch, but with a Battle Pass...
News Marathon a 'Premium', Paid for Game on PS5, But It's Not $70
Bungie offers clarification on price
Bungie has confirmed its newly unveiled extraction shooter Marathon will be a "premium" game you have to pay for, but it won't be $70. In a post on Twitter, the developer responded to a post detailing a GameSpot preview where the upcoming online game was described as a "premium product" that you shall have to...
News Bungie's New PS5 Shooter Marathon Grabs September Release Date
Alpha test begins this month
As per the game's showcase, Marathon has nailed down a release date on PS5. Bungie's latest shooter arrives on the 23rd September, kickstarting what will no doubt be a busy last few months of the year. The developer has also spilled the beans on how Marathon actually plays. As was previously confirmed, this is a...
Live Watch Bungie's Marathon Gameplay Reveal Right Here
Shoot first
Bungie's about to fully reveal its first new game since Destiny 2. Just in case you haven't heard, it's called Marathon, and it's an extraction shooter sporting a crazy art direction. Given the developer's pedigree, you'd expect top-tier gun-based gameplay from Marathon — and we should be seeing plenty of that today. The gameplay...
News Sony Won't Force PSN on Xbox, PC Players of Marathon
Should save some headaches
Marathon is the first major release from Bungie since Sony acquired the studio, and it’ll be a big moment for both parties. While Helldivers 2 has been a huge success for the Japanese giant, it’s still searching for the live service goldmine, and it’s not going to get a better shot than with the latest and greatest...
News Don't Expect a Marathon Shadow Drop This Weekend Following the Big PS5 Reveal
Marathon, not a sprint
Given how much weight Bungie and PlayStation are throwing behind this weekend's Marathon reveal, it's no surprise that some onlookers are wondering whether the game's actually gearing up for an imminent release. But that's not quite the case, according to in-the-know Tom Henderson. The Insider Gaming scribe took to social...
News PlayStation Hypes Up Big Marathon PS5 Reveal This Weekend
Takes place on Saturday, 12th April
By way of an ARG ran over the weekend, Bungie has announced it is lifting the lid on its next multiplayer title, Marathon, later this week on Saturday, 12th April 2025. The community has come together to uncover a "save the date" trailer that features a brief but colourful look at the world of Marathon. Catch it...
News Bungie's Marathon PS5 Game Taking Over PlayStation Social Media Pages
New updates likely coming soon
PlayStation has updated all its social media channels and pages with images relating to its upcoming live-service game Marathon, with developer Bungie posting the first tease. On Twitter, the team has begun posting black and neon green imagery that fans have found leads to an ARG. The latest update takes the form of a...
News Sony Hits Back Hard at Bungie Lead's $200 Million Lawsuit
Fighting words
Just before Christmas, one-time Bungie lead and director of Destiny 2 and Marathon, Chris Barrett, filed a lawsuit against Sony Interactive Entertainment, suing the firm for over $200 million. Sony has substantively replied for the first time, presumably getting its legal ducks in a row behind the scenes, and has come out swinging...
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...
News Gummy Bears Details Leak, Bungie's MOBA Taken Under Sony's Wing
Takes inspiration from Super Smash Bros.
"Gummy Bears" is the rather odd name by which a secret Sony project is currently known. Originally in development at Destiny, Marathon developer Bungie, during its most recent round of layoffs, Sony carved out a small team to work on the allegedly Smash Bros.-inspired MOBA (multiplayer online battle arena)...
News Former Bungie Director Chris Barrett Suing Sony for Over $200 Million
Turns out being a director at Bungie can be lucrative
Former Destiny 2 and Marathon director Chris Barrett is suing Sony Interactive Entertainment. He claims that his firing for alleged inappropriate behaviour (detailed in a March Bloomberg report) was a pretence to avoid paying the $50 million he was owed under his employment agreement following...
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...
News Bungie Provides Lengthy Development Update on PS5 Extraction Shooter, Marathon
It's a Marathon, not a sprint
Bungie's game director on Marathon, Joe Ziegler, has fronted a camera, offering a nearly 10-minute development update on the eagerly anticipated PS5 extraction shooter. In addition, some new images are shown but no gameplay, with the promise of "a lot more" to come, including playtests, in 2025. Gematsu has the full...
News PlayStation, Bungie Still Going Ahead with Internal Live Service Team
Will support all of Sony's live-service titles
There's been little mention of the "SIE Live Service Centre of Excellence" since Sony acquired Destiny 2 team Bungie a few years ago, but it still sounds like the initiative is going ahead in some form. Bridget O'Neill, a lead figure at Bungie Creative Studios, has shared her team will be joining...
News Fresh Marathon Details Cover Heroes, Pricing, and Bungie's Silence
The final sprint is going to be brutal
We know remarkably little about Marathon, considering its release window begins in a few months, having been revealed almost a year and a half ago. We aren't sure how many more mulligans Bungie is allowed, either, and with the spectre of Concord and
News Sony Pulled Bungie's Head Out of Its Ass, and an Ex-Lawyer Reckons That Was a Good Thing
"It was important to pretend that 'nothing would change'"
A former Bungie lawyer has made some illuminating remarks concerning parent company Sony and its wayward, unruly child. Following its acquisition by the PlayStation platform holder in 2022, Bungie has frequently been in the headlines, but rarely for the right reasons. On that most exciting...
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...
News Bungie's Making Headlines for All the Wrong Reasons Yet Again
When it rains, it pours
When will it end for poor embattled developer Bungie? The iconic outfit – which Sony scooped up for billions to lead its floundering live service charge – went through an enormous round of layoffs earlier this year, with the PlayStation maker seemingly enforcing some management authority over the subsidiary. And
News Bungie to Reveal the Future of Destiny and Its Next Multi-Year Journey Soon
A Marathon, not a sprint
It’s not been the best few weeks for legendary developer Bungie, as it’s seen its studio downscaled, one of its teams spun-off, and its management underfire. Now fans of Destiny 2 are beginning to ponder what’s next for the game they love – and the company that made it. All will be revealed in the near future,...
News Bungie Accused of Overselling Itself to Sony, Promising Success It Couldn't Deliver
"Sony overpaid for Bungie"
It seems as though more and more in-the-know people are weighing in on the deeply unfortunate situation at Bungie. Following on from the news that the studio has shed 220 of its employees — with another 155 being integrated into positions at PlayStation — the Destiny developer has now been accused of overselling itself...
News A Big Bungie Project Has Been Cancelled, But It Wasn't Destiny 3
That's Payback
There’s turmoil at developer Bungie following another brutal round of lay offs which saw over 200 employees let go, and a further 150 or so reallocated roles within parent company Sony. Speaking about the drama on his Game Mess Mornings podcast this week, snoopster Jeff Grubb said that a major new project named Payback had been...
Contrary to common opinion
There’s a common sentiment among PlayStation enthusiasts that Bungie waded into Naughty Dog’s offices, saw a finished version of The Last of Us 2’s long anticipated live service multiplayer game, and immediately started flipping over tables and ordered the acclaimed developer to cancel the whole thing. The reality...
Pete Parsons in the firing line
Back when Sony acquired Bungie for $3.6 billion, the deal repeatedly stressed that the Destiny developer would continue to remain independent, and would operate adjacent to PS Studios, rather than underneath it. However, there were apparently performance targets in place which meant if the studio missed them,...
Reaction Sony's Billion Dollar Bungie Buyout Is Looking More and More Like a Blunder
Destiny's wild
Back when Sony announced its $3.6 billion acquisition of Bungie, we didn’t quite understand it. Sony was under intense pressure at the time, as Microsoft was still in the midst of its corporate consolidation storm, and didn’t look likely to stop until it owned most of the industry. Acquiring the legendary Halo creator always...
News Bungie to Lay Off 220 Workers, Will Be Further Integrated into Sony
"Today is a difficult and painful day"
Destiny 2 developer Bungie has confirmed it will be letting go of 220 employees "due to rising costs of development and industry shifts as well as enduring economic conditions". As a result, the team will be further integrated into PlayStation Studios as a further 155 workers transition from Bungie to positions...
Review Destiny 2: The Final Shape (PS5) - Bungie's Promise Fulfilled
There was an idea
10 years ago, we booted up the beta for Destiny on PS4. It was an exciting time, as the possibilities of multiplayer on console were rapidly expanding into the territory of live service, a term that didn’t hold quite the same implications as it does now. There were bold claims of half a billion dollar budgets and decade spanning...
News Destiny 2 Clan Clears The Final Shape Raid, Unlocking Game's Final Mission
The stuff of legend
A Destiny 2 clan has heroically cleared The Final Shape expansion's raid, unlocking the game's true final mission for all players to undertake. The 12-player Excision mission is now live, which can be accessed by opening the Pale Heart destination from the director screen and scrolling over to the right. PC Gamer detailed the...
