Author: narcogen

In the Bungie Mail Sack this week, Deej addresses the burning question: Is there bacon in Destiny? I can neither confirm nor deny if swine survived the collapse of the Golden Age. Humanity’…

Before Halo on the Xbox, before Oni on the PlayStation 2, there was Super Marathon on the ill-fated Bandai Pippin. Worth a mention today for a couple of reasons– Bungie’s David “Evil Otto” Candland pointed it out today on Twitter, and the Activision …

Umbra Software, makers of Umbra 3, have put up a blog post about how their middleware is being used for world creation and rendering in Bungie’s Destiny. They’ll be doing a presentation on it at GDC this year as well.

Bungie’s latest Community Focus article is on Ready Up Live. They’ve got a YouTube channel with some good Destiny videos in it, check it out.

Nope, not doing one. Bungie’s latest Mail Sack is up. Here’s a highlight: MastaSin In Destiny, can we play as the aliens or are we locked to the human race? And if we are, why are we locked t…

I’ve opened a new Twitter account for site and gaming news, @Narcogen.

Claude Errera has announced that DBO is now building their Destiny Video Archive. Right now what’s there are the two official vids, with more stuff to come.

This week’s Community Focus feature over at Bungie is on the Destiny SubReddit. It’s dangerous to go alone, take this.

nRGmusicproduction recreated the Destiny track “Be Brave” by Martin O’Donnell and Michael Salvatori, used in the PS4 reveal video, completely by ear. Go have a listen! …

Kapowaz over in the DBO forum summarized the feature on Destiny from Edge Magazine. It seems the game will feature named weapon drops, like Borderlands, as well as weapon models generated procedurally from ingredients, perhaps like the weapon mod syst…

Dean Takahashi over at VentureBeat has posted a walkthrough essay and some photos of Bungie’s studio where Destiny is now being made. Not a lot of new material, but until Bungie speaks at GDC t…

You can never truly know a game until you play it. Seraph, from Matrix Reloaded Okay, so I’m paraphrasing, but the point stands. Right now we don’t know much about Destiny, but it might be pretty difficult to say we know anything at all. I’m startin…

The Destiny FAQ has been updated with information revealed by Deej, Urk and others during the past couple of editions of the Bungie Mail Sack.

In response to some problems people were having with the in-browser podcast player, I’ve made some changes to the individual podcast entries as well as to the podcast page. The new player is HTML5 and Flash hybrid that should work on desktop browsers…

David Candland of Bungie reminds all the fans via Twitter that there’s only one place to go if you want to beta test Destiny, and it’s here: http://www.bungie.net/en-us/View/bungie/userresearch/index Some unofficial sites have been purporting to offe…

Over in the MariusNet forum, punkUser points out that any old school Myth fans looking to check out some current tournament action can have a look at NewMutator’s YouTube channel.

Narcogen & Blackstar Featuring Miguel Chavez and Cody Miller In Anger, Sadness and Envy Episode 25: Destiny Revealed, Narcogen, Blackstar, Miguel Chavez and Cody Miller talk about the reveal of Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and PlayStation 4 versions of Bungie’s shared world shooter, Destiny. (Music by Martin O’Donnell and Michael Salvatori, from the Destiny ARG…

Shaun McInnis, GameSpot Editor, has penned an article spelling out exactly what Bungie’s new game, Destiny, is– and is not: “These are living, open worlds with evolving stories, changing tim…

John Gaudiosi at PCWorld interviews Bungie’s COO, Pete Parsons, about Bungie’s new game, Destiny. In the interview, Parsons again confirms that an element some fans were worried would be omitte…

Why, the video kind, of course. MoreConsole avoids the obvious answer and wonders what Destiny will bring us.