Category: Rampancy

Over at Gamasutra, Shay Pierce wrote a piece entitled Game Designers and the Four Tribes of Artists, and then Sara Gross (also at Gamasutra) wrote a piece called Indie Elitism, partially in response. Response to what? Well, apparently Pierce had read…

Artist Jesse van Dijk has done some of Destiny’s concept art, including the Citadel. He’s just now posted some of those Destiny images at CGHub, but and there’s other stuff on his tumblr to che…

VentureBeat’s Dean Takahashi has interviewed Bungie COO Pete Parsons about his role with the Halo and Destiny franchises originated by Bungie. Quite a few interesting tidbits in there, but perh…

Freelance artist Kekai Kotaki has posted some of the concept art done for Bungie’s Destiny on tumblr. Be sure to watch their tumblr for future imagery.

Ready Up Live is another gaming site that follows Bungie games, including Halo (and 343’s Halo 4) and Destiny (as well as a little Minecraft thrown in, if you’re into that sort of thing). Check out their site or their YouTube page for updates. …

MoreConsole also has some video news and analysis pieces up about Destiny. There’s one about the player classes and concept art, and then a frame-by-frame analysis of the PS4 reveal trailer. Bo…

Dark Jedi from Dark Hole Games has put up a breakdown of the Destiny ViDoc. I’ve added it to the Destiny section of the movies page. Dark Hole Games has a series of walkthroughs and let’s play …

Last week we saw that Bungie alums Alexander Seropian (Marathon, Halo, Stubbs the Zombie) and Brent Pease (Oni) had formed a new group, Industrial Toys, working on a mobile shooter, Morning Sta…

Polygon has a story about artist Joe Cross, who’s done concept art for Dead Space 3 as well as for Bungie’s upcoming shared world shooter, Destiny. That shot of the Pike speeding across the des…

Deej attempts to boil down the takeaway from the last week of Bungie reveals: Destiny is an action game set in a mysterious world that you CAN play alone, but will be better well you play coope…

DestinyHub also took a microscope to the Destiny PS4 Announcement trailer to take a look at what secrets each frame might hold for the final game. Take a look!

There’s a new gallery of screencaptures from the PlayStation 4 announcement trailer up, with commentary. Take a look!

I’m not sure if all Fallen have four arms or what… but this guy certainly does. Perhaps he’s one of those dudes that are called “spider pirates”– but only unofficially. Not sure who made tha…

Bungie announces Destiny for the PlayStation 4 at Sony’s press event on February 20, 2013. The system will arrive by the end of this year. …

Bungie co-founder Alexander Seropian, who left Bungie after Halo 1 to found Wideload Games back in Chicago, has found himself a new gig: he’s teaming up with another Bungie alum, Brent Pease of…

An obvious troll slings some mud at Bungie and manages to provoke a thoughtful resopnse from Achronos about Bungie’s plans for deep social integration between Bungie.net and Destiny: This web site is designed for a game you know little about. It is d…

Bungie’s first Mail Sack since the Destiny reveal is open for questions at Bungie.net. Deej also includes word that “a steady cadence of updates” is planned, so if the reveal only left you wanting more, don’t worry, it’s coming. So go ahead and submi…

While he specifically mentions Aliens: Colonial Marines and not the press coverage of Bungie’s Destiny reveal, Ben Kuchera’s latest piece at Penny Arcade Report is about the shortcomings of game journalism, and makes a nice bookend to Matt Soell’s pie…

MrGreencastle in the DBO forum also picked apart some of the images from the ViDoc, taking a detailed look at what they might mean for Destiny’s interface and gameplay features.

Ex-Bungie Community Guy Matt Soell, who was with the company during the early Halo days, has penned a response to some of the complaints about Destiny’s reveal being more “hype” than “substance”. It’s well worth a read, so please go take a look (Warni…