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Activision made an official announcement on Tuesday in which they shared other breathtaking news on their recent release, Destiny. They say Destiny cleared over $325 million in sales in its first 5 days on the market. Curiously how this figure does not match the $500 million originally announced by Activision during last week. The truth is Destiny in fact sold ...

Starting today, Bungie’s last entry to the Halo series, “Halo: Reach” is available for free for Xbox Games with Gold subscribers. Players will be able to download the game through Xbox Live and play it for free until the end of the month. Halo: Reach is replacing “Monaco: What’s Yours Is Mine” in Microsoft’s program. Usually, the game costs $19.99, ...

Just days after its release, Destiny users started experiencing some online technical difficulties, as Bungie confirms. The issue seems to be persisting within Bungie servers and at a number of university networks. It has been reported that many academic students haven’t been able to access the game’s online contents. This problem adds to a string of concerns surrounding Destiny’s developer ...

Last week, publisher Activision had revealed that Bungie’s recently-released sci-fi first-person shooter – Destiny – had managed to sell over $500 million worth of copies on its first day alone. Moreover, the game’s launch now represents the most successful one in the history of the United Kingdom. So, going by those numbers alone, one would think that online critics or ...

According to Bungie’s community manager Eric Osbourne, Paul McCartney helped Martin O’Donnell and Michael Salvatori compose the Destiny soundtrack without requesting any financial compensation. According to Osbourne, McCartney decided to contribute to the soundtrack for free in order to reach audiences that would otherwise not be interested in him and his music. Paul McCartney contributed with orchestral elements to Destiny’s ...

Any good MMO should ideally have lasting appeal in order to keep players hooked and convince them to return to the game time and time again. While Destiny is considered a pretty good game by most, there are many who criticized the fact that it’s too grindy and there aren’t a whole lot of interesting activities available. Luckily Bungie is ...

Activision announced that the company sold copies of Destiny worth over $500 million in one day through retail stores and first parties worldwide. This makes Bungie’s game the biggest new franchise launch in history. It seems like Activision and Bungie’s advertising and promotion of the game worked extremely well. According to Bobby Kotick, CEO of Activision Blizzard, retail and first ...

Developer Bungie’s sci-fi first-person shooter – Destiny – has just been launched on the PlayStation 4, Xbox One, PlayStation 3, and Xbox 360. Even though said FPS is available on both Sony’s and Microsoft’s current/last-generation consoles, because Sony heavily invested in its own versions (i.e. bought exclusive rights for marketing and timed-exclusive downloadable goodies), the Japanese giant treats Destiny like ...

When online reviews or otherwise for a specific title aren’t “up-and-running” on its launch date, it’s usually a bad sign. Most of the time, the title’s publisher fears that journalists will tear it apart because of its potential low-quality, and in return, said game will “drop the ball” when it comes to sales. Of course, there are also exceptions, and ...

According to Bungie, users who purchase the digital download of “Destiny” for Playstation 3 or Xbox 360 will be able to upgrade to Playstation 4 or Xbox One for free. There is, however, a catch to this. You only receive the free upgrade within the same console family. In other words, if you buy the Xbox 360 version you receive ...