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Destiny Sells Over $500 Million Day One

09/11/2014 Tim News 2 comments

According to an Activision Blizzard press release, Destiny grossed over $500 million on day one of release. [divider] Bobby Kotick, Activision Blizzard’s CEO stated: “Based on extraordinary audience demand, retail and first party orders worldwide have exceeded $500 million for Destiny. This industry milestone marks another blockbuster success for our company and demonstrates our unique ability to create some of the most successful entertainment franchises in the world. The success of Destiny, along with the recent introduction of Blizzard Entertainment’s Hearthstone, is further validation of our unique capabilities to create great entertainment franchises from the ground up.” Source A great success indeed!

Inside Bungie, Jason Jones Shoutout

09/09/2014 PlanetDestiny Media, News 2 comments

Published on: Sep 9, 2014 @ 1:03 DestinyNews.net forum member GiL-G4M35H attented the Bungie community event, and thankfully he got there early, so he was one of the first few hundred attendees. He was able to snap a bunch of HD images of the event, of the Bungie HQ, as well as take a couple videos with Bungie employees! [divider] [divider] In other news, the servers to be having some issues as expected, but you can bet that Bungie knows about them and is doing everything possible to alleviate the problems. Check out this art by Reddit user Noble-6 while you wait:

The Possibility of a PC Release

09/08/2014 PlanetDestiny News One comment

Published on: Sep 8, 2014 @ 22:43 A recent article from Polygon outlines some of the discussions they had with Bungie about the likelihood that Destiny will be coming to PC, and it wouldn’t be far-fetched to assume it’s going to happen in the future. [divider] Polygon was told there was no news on a possible PC version when they asked on Friday, just in case the game being all but shipped meant that there were new people free to work on this possible port. “It is [a good fit], and it’s something we’re talking about and looking at very carefully, and obviously it makes a lot of

Update 1.0.1 – Patch Notes

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Published on: Sep 8, 2014 @ 13:05 This article can also be found at Bungie.net [divider] We used to build games that were pressed on discs, shipped to retailers, bought by consumers and then, in the months and years that followed, we’d support them the best we could. We updated playlists, made tuning changes, and developed new multiplayer maps. With Destiny, we couldn’t create a world that players want to live in by leveraging our old habits. We want to improve, grow and evolve Destiny in the coming weeks, months and – hopefully – years. The hours you poured into the beta

New HD Destiny Gameplay

09/08/2014 PlanetDestiny News, Videos 3 comments

Published on: Sep 8, 2014 @ 8:11 These videos may contain spoilers! This article will be updated throughout the day as more gameplay is released. The following are brand new gameplay videos for you to feast your eyes on while you wait (unless you’ve got a physical copy of the game in your hands), courtesy of MoreConsole, DattoDoesDestiny & SuddothMediaHD. [divider] [divider] In other news, My name is Byf just released part 2 of his Exotic weapons series. In this guide he goes over Sniper Rifles, Rocket Launchers, Shotguns, Scout Rifles, and Hand cannons. These weapons include: Thorn, The Last Word, Hawkmoon, The Fate of

Servers are LIVE!

09/08/2014 PlanetDestiny News One comment

Published on: Sep 8, 2014 @ 7:08 That’s right! If you have a physical copy of the game in your hands, you can play right now! Unfortunately if you’re like me, and went with the digital version, you’ll need to wait until tomorrow at 3 AM EST. [divider] Click here to watch the GameSpot stream, or click here to watch Joystiq. Polygon is streaming as well, which you can watch below:

Chris Butcher on Design Decisions

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Published on: Sep 7, 2014 @ 23:39 3news.co.nz spoke to Technical Director Chris Butcher about Destiny’s design decisions, some of the technical aspects of the game, as well as their plan for the future. [divider] Tell me about the coolest thing that’s happened as you’ve been playing Destiny recently. One night recently we had a few people playing from their homes, just a very low population because there were only about a dozen of us online at once. Suddenly we had enough people that we randomly got a Crucible match going and it got really intense. In this game it was some of

[Spoilers] Sword of Crota

09/07/2014 PlanetDestiny News 19 comments

Published on: Sep 7, 2014 @ 20:26 This article contains spoilers! Thanks to Reddit user DRayX17, with access to the strategy guide, we have some insight into how Sword of Crota will be used. This mission will be first available early on, around level 7, but will also be playable later on higher difficulties. [divider] Update: GameSpot posted a video of this mission: You can in fact use a sword, but only for a portion of one story mission – The Sword of Crota. Near the end, you pick up said Sword of Crota, and (according to the guide) “picking up the Sword of Crota replaces