What's on your bookshelf?: Destiny 2 and Dishonored narrative designer Hazel Monforton
Hello reader who is also a reader, and welcome back to Booked For The Week - our regular Sunday chat with a selection of cool industry folks about books! This week, I’ve been half reading in the garden and half staring in awe at my Kindle’s paperwhite doohickey and it’s ability to stay readable in searing sunbeams.10 Sep 2024Destiny 2 is switching to offering two "medium-sized" expansions per year, because its annual add-ons had "started to feel too formulaic"VG247 ︎10 Sep 2024Destiny 2: How to find each Cayde Stash and get the 10th anniversary armourPC Gamer ︎10 Sep 2024Bungie says Destiny 2's future lies in "unusual formats", like "roguelikes or survival shooters"RPS ︎09 Sep 202410 YEARS OF DESTINYSteam ︎09 Sep 2024Destiny 2 is abandoning big annual expansions and linear campaigns in favour of more frequent releases that are 'mysterious, weird, and not afraid to try new things'PC Gamer ︎09 Sep 2024Destiny 2 plans two ‘medium-sized’ expansions and four free content updates through early 2026MassivelyOp ︎08 Sep 2024Bungie is offering a little bit of insight into what's next for Destiny 2 next week, just don't expect much for its 10th anniversaryVG247 ︎05 Sep 2024This Week In Destiny - 09/05/2024Steam ︎03 Sep 2024Court locks in Bungie's $4.4 million win against Destiny 2 cheat maker, refuses request for a new trialPC Gamer ︎03 Sep 2024Destiny 2: Echoes | Choir of One Exotic Auto Rifle HighlightSteam ︎02 Sep 2024Destiny 2 launches a week-long sword celebration September 3 and previews a new pathfinder treeMassivelyOp ︎29 Aug 2024This Week In Destiny - 08/29/2024Steam ︎28 Aug 2024Destiny 2’s Echoes Act 3 brings more story, more weapons, and more artifact modsMassivelyOp ︎26 Aug 2024Destiny 2 previews upcoming artifact perks, new weapons, and exotic attunement optionsMassivelyOp ︎22 Aug 2024This Week in Destiny – 08/22/2024Steam ︎20 Aug 2024Destiny 2 threatens to ban AFK loot farmers hunting exotic itemsMassivelyOp ︎16 Aug 2024Destiny 2 readies an 8v8 PvP test, plans adjustments to Xur’s wares, accidentally garbles player namesMassivelyOp ︎15 Aug 2024This Week In Destiny - 08/15/2024Steam ︎15 Aug 2024Oops! Bungie accidentally changed the names of a 'high number' of Destiny 2 players, says a fix 'will take some time' to figure outPC Gamer ︎09 Aug 2024Bungie promises to address the 'uncertainty' surrounding the future of Destiny 2 following massive layoffs last weekPC Gamer ︎09 Aug 2024Destiny 2 brings back the annual summertime Solstice event and outlines recent gear tweaksMassivelyOp ︎08 Aug 2024This Week in Destiny – 08/08/2024Steam ︎08 Aug 2024Sony says the 220 layoffs at Bungie were made in the name of—you guessed it—things like 'portfolio optimization' and enhancing 'the efficiency of the business'PC Gamer ︎07 Aug 2024Bungie can't catch a W: Rather than buffing the drop rate of Destiny 2's most-wanted exotic items, the latest patch nerfed it into dustPC Gamer ︎07 Aug 2024MMO Business Roundup: Sony, SEGA, and Square-Enix drop a mixed bag of quarterly financialsMassivelyOp ︎05 Aug 2024Bungie scraps Destiny spinoff Payback, shifts away from expansions for Destiny 2MassivelyOp ︎04 Aug 2024Insiders say Bungie’s latest layoffs were an inevitable result of over-promising execsMassivelyOp ︎03 Aug 2024Payback, a Destiny spinoff that was not, in fact, Destiny 3, was cancelled two months before the latest mass layoffs at BungiePC Gamer ︎02 Aug 2024Destiny 3 may yet happen, but Destiny's unannounced "Payback" spin-off won't, according to reportsRPS ︎02 Aug 2024Bungie was reportedly going to pull the trigger on layoffs regardless of The Final Shape's success, due to leadership under-delivering on 'financial promises' to SonyPC Gamer ︎02 Aug 2024Bungie layoffs “couldn't be avoided” even if Destiny 2 The Final Shape had "blockbuster performance”, says reportRPS ︎02 Aug 2024Not even Destiny 2: The Final Shape being a runaway blockbuster success would have prevented Bungie's latest layoffs, report claimsVG247 ︎01 Aug 2024Bungie CEO Pete Parsons has seemingly spent over $2 Million on classic cars and motorbikes since Sony bought the studio back in 2022VG247 ︎31 Jul 2024Destiny creators Bungie lay off 220 people and form new studio within Sony to stave off financial ruinRPS ︎31 Jul 2024Destiny 2 developer Bungie to lay off 220 staff, integrate more deeply with Sony, and "spin out" one game's development to a new PlayStation studioVG247 ︎