Tag: Bungie
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...
News Bungie Apologises for Its Widespread Destiny 2 DLC Launch Issues
"We're truly sorry"
No online game or update will ever roll out completely flawlessly, but as the pivotal final chapter in its story released just yesterday, the Destiny 2 servers were essentially brought to their knees. New expansion The Final Shape is designed to be a sort of conclusion to the current narrative saga, so the surge of interest to...
News Bungie Responds After Destiny 2's The Final Shape Was 'Accidentally Pushed Live on PS5'
You hate to see it
Destiny 2 developer Bungie has acknowledged its unfortunate situation ahead of the launch of the game's final DLC expansion, The Final Shape, tomorrow, on 4th June. In a stunning own-goal, The Final Shape was "accidentally pushed live on PS5's streaming service", and spoilers for this decade-spanning story arc are now being shared...
News Destiny 2 Comes Full Circle as The Final Shape Draws Near
The end of an era, one way or another
The climactic conclusion to Destiny 2 is almost upon us, with Bungie's eagerly anticipated expansion, The Final Shape, just days away, touching down on PS5 and PS4 on 4th June. It brings to a close the current Light and Darkness story saga, which began back in 2017. A suitably cinematic trailer has been released...
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
News Bungie to Undo Controversial 'Sunsetting' of Destiny 2 Weapons
"We want to rally all Guardians to help fight the Witness"
As the end of the current phase of Destiny 2 draws to a close, with The Final Shape out in just a month and a change, it really does seem like Bungie is putting it all on the line. A new faction, the first in years, will be introduced, as will the ability to mix and match subclass powers...
News Bungie Might Be Making Destiny 3, Its Fanbase Speculates
Destiny will live on beyond The Final Shape
For a long, long time now, the hardcore Destiny 2 fanbase appeared to accept Bungie would always stick to its seasonal and expansion-based model, and never develop a standalone third entry in the series. Referencing the issues the studio has with its engine and how after layoffs hit, the most committed...
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...
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...
News Bungie Shuffles Marathon Leadership as Fears of Further Layoffs Loom
Joe Ziegler replaces Christopher Barrett as game director
Embattled developer Bungie is betting big on its in-development next live service offering, Marathon, the successor to Destiny 2, and a north star for the seemingly rudderless studio to sail towards. Despite suffering through a round of layoffs as recently as October, it's feared there may be...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
News Lead Bungie Staff Fear 'Total Sony Takeover' After Layoffs, Delays
IGN report claims
Developers at Destiny 2 studio Bungie are said to be fearful of a "total Sony takeover" following missed revenue targets, layoffs, and product delays, a new IGN report claims. According to sources speaking to the outlet, higher-ups within the studio have hinted the shared power it enjoys with Sony following last year's acquisition...
Talking Point Is Bungie Really the Right Developer to Aid Sony's Live-Service Push?
A live-service centre of excellence, apparently
When was the last time you read a news story about Bungie and Destiny 2 that was genuinely positive about the game? If you only get your gaming news here at Push Square, it would be last week: the new armour set themed around The Witcher 3 looked pretty cool. It was then pointed out you could actually...
News Destiny 2's Latest Microtransaction Is So Bad Bungie's Already Removed It from PS5, PS4
Capitalism, Crime, Psychological Horror
In a development Bungie could have done without, the Destiny 2 developer has already pulled a contentious $15 starter pack offered in Season of the Wish, which just went live yesterday. The pack provided a pitiful assortment of goods and was marketed towards new players, a combination of things the community...
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
