Pete Parsons, CEO of the Destiny 2 developer, appears to have spent more than $2 million on classic cars and motorcycles through auction site Bring A Trailer since Bungie was acquired by Sony for $3.6 billion in February 2022. Many of the account’s purchases occurred in the months before and after Bungie’s massive layoffs. Parsons ...
I always tell people that I determination since the first alpha test. For some reason, it was always a point of pride for me. My own way of saying, “Hey, I’ve been behind this vision since the beginning. I’ve been through the ups and downs and I’m still here.” But after a second round of ...
After years of working quietly, Mountaintop Studios—a team comprised of game development veterans from Respawn, Riot Games, Bungie, and other AAA studios—has officially unveiled its first project to the world. Spectre Divide is the team’s attempt to shake up the competitive tactical shooter genre. The free-to-play 3v3 game may borrow elements from Valorant and Counter-Strike, ...
Last Wednesday, July 31, 2024, we reported the sad news that 220 people had lost their jobs at the Bungie video game studio. The reactions were not long in coming. Both the gaming community of Destiny 2 as those affected and Bungie employees still at the company are furious and demanding that CEO Pete Parsons ...
Despite having been “redeemed” with the excellent expansion of The final formthe study behind Destiny 2 continues to walk a dark path. Bungie announced a new round of layoffs in which it will eliminate the roles of more than 200 employees. This represents approximately 17% of its total workforce. This joins the terrible wave of ...
Destiny 2 developer Bungie has announced plans to lay off 220 employees, integrating the remaining 155 positions into Sony Interactive Entertainment and moving work on one of its “incubation projects” to the newly formed PlayStation Studio. Bungie CEO Pete Parsons laid out the shift in a new blog post, calling it “the hardest change our ...
Since the beginning of June Bungie launched The final formthe DLC that will put an end to the 10-year history of our guardian. So in our review of Destiny 2: The final form We will explore the new things that the Faint Heart brings to Guardians. All this while we witness one of the best ...
A screenshot of a Destiny 2 character using Cloudstrike, which is an exotic weapon and not a cybersecurity company.Picture: Bungie / Sony / Kotaku Early today, most of the world is practically shut down thanks to an IT outage. A cybersecurity company called Crowdstrike released an update that locked up millions of PCs around the ...
Act II of Destiny 2: EchoesIt is now available. This new update arrives with new contentincluding new battleground activities, two new weapons, a reworked weapon, and five additional artifact perks. Additionally, we’ll also get the continuation of the story from the first episode of the year of The final form. ...
Bloomberg’s Jason Schreier sat down with Don McGowan, a former attorney for The Pokémon Company and Bungie, to discuss how the two companies investigated whistleblowers while he was with them. Schreier began by asking McGowan how the Bungie investigation would begin: “I had a regular sync with our PR team. A lot of stuff came ...
