Arabic language gaming site DvLZGaME has posted a video tour of Bungie (okay, Bungie’s lobby). The video is in arabic, of course, but is still worth a look if you haven’t already seen some of the Halo memoribilia Bungie has amassed.

Incidentally, it appears that Bungie has a small but motiviated fanbase in the Arabic world that is using Twitter to lobby for the Arabic localization of Destiny– I’m guessing that Halo missed out on this treatment.

Over at DestinyHub thesirchelios has written an article guessing at what we might expect from the different classes and factions of Destiny. So far there appear to be three known human Guardian classes (Hunter, Warlock, Titan) and five factions (Dead Orbit, Future War Cult, New Monarchy, Osiris and Seven Seraphs).

Myself, I’m guessing that factions will be how Destiny implements clan functionality. This would have the effect not only of integrating faction warfare into solo, coop and vs multiplayer, the way it does in Eve Online, but avoid some of the logistical challenges of maintaining clan lists.

Hey guys, Just finished transcribing the first part (best sounding part) of halo 3: odst bits and pieces. The arrangement is for piano.

A good deal of new information about some of the alien races in Bungie’s Destiny in this week’s Mail Sack. Here, for instance, is some really interesting stuff about the Fallen from Urk:

I fell in love with the Fallen all the way back in 2009. Partly because there’s just something wonderful about the idea of a nomadic race of once noble houses now scattered to the solar winds. Partly because there’s something primordial and instantly terrifying about squaring off against an unpredictable Fallen Captain, his tattered crimson cape draped over a set of four splayed and angular arms that bristle with sleek firepower.

Sounds like an interesting blend of Dune’s Landsraad, Mass Effect’s Quarians, and Unreal’s Nali. Also sounds like they all have four arms.