In days that it is highly speculated that #Destiny2 newest expansion, The Final Shape, needs to be asuccess or things will change for the bad, Bungie confirmed will have a a half-hour developer gameplay preview on April 9 at 12:30PM EST. #Gaming #GameNews #youtubegaming 🕹 🎮

Bungie ironically waited until the final stretch of main #Destiny2 lore & franchise's almost 10th anniversary to intro Guardian customization as a feature to be added on the game prior the launch of The Final Shape expansion in June. #Gaming #GameNews #youtubegaming 🕹🎮

Latest noise within #Bungie is that the now Playstation subsidiary is on high alert as Sony can enact a clause on their agreement that the studio's board of directors can be dismissed and Sony take over at all. The possibilities of Bungie being folded within Playstation Studios is now more real than ever and pretty much the underperformance of Destiny 2's sales can pretty much justify Sony to enact the mentioned clause. Currently, Bungie is operating as an independent subsidiary after surprisingly, Sony announced acquiring it under that condition. Since last year, Sony tasked Bungie on assess all GaaS project including the long awaited The Last Of Us multiplayer game and actually, most of them failed the assessment and explains why Sony decided to have Naughty Dog to scale back the game. Recently, Bungie has come under fire after running a surprising layoff process as revenue of sales by Destiny 2 are under target and reportedly management has not been empathic with the people that got fired and doubled-down on improving things regardless the environment. Now it has been rumored that a new layoff run is possible if the next expansion, The Final Shape, needs to be a success, while Bungie has not acknowledged publicly, but Marathon has been internally delayed by 2025. #Gaming #GamingNews

Bungie didn't give much details besides all activity of the first half of 2024 for #Destiny2 and the official delay of The Final Shape expansion, the first main follow-up after Bungie ran a layoff and management portraited internally unempathetic about it. #Gaming #GamingNews

Sources of Bloomberg reports that Bungie layoff impacted 8% of workforce or 100 people as an effect on #Destiny2 revenue was down 45% below projections for the year. Destiny community has shown burned out of the content formula since 2017's Destiny 2. #Gaming #GamingNews

Unfortunately #Bungie will be running a layoff run and while the exact reach could be revealed later this week the effect is already seen on Destiny 2 and Marathon with respectively The Final Shape expansion and the remake were delayed further 2024 & 2025. The now Playstation subsidiary is the latest of noise in the industry that there are troubles at Playstation Studios were many of the 1st party developers are resisting the Game-as-a-Service strategy implemented by Jim Ryan since last year. Reportedly, thing has escalated to the point that non-attached Playstation Studios has threaten to go independent again while Playstation pressed back on folding studios who continues to object the plans. Some are speculating that this crisis is probably a one of the hidden reasons of Jim Ryan leaving Sony Interactive Entertainment next year besides an almost 30 years career within Sony and traveling between USA and Japan being a European resident. To avoid objections from regulators, Sony bought surprisingly Bungie (formerly an independents studios in the 80's and the 90's and by the New Millennium a first party studio for Xbox to Microsoft own the Halo franchise & going independent again a decade ago) as subsidiary. In return to maintain complete independence on gaming plans, Sony tasked Bungie on assess all current in-development games that could be Playstation exclusives GaaS games & MOST didn't passed the evaluation and that is why the planned The Last Of Us Multiplayer was scaled back. #Gaming #GamingNews

Despite trying to lead the counterattack on regulators trying to ban the ABK buyout, it was revealed that Sony told investors on Fidelity back in 2022, that the #Bungie acquisition had more value for Playstation more than ABK to Xbox itself. Not the first time that Sony got exposed on not being too concerned originally, but lead a lobbying campaign in Washington DC with Sony Interactive Entertainment CEO Jim Ryan, who ended being called out to be at the wrong side by lawmakers regarding the ABK acquisition. #Gaming #GamingNews

Bungie has confirmed that #Destiny2 next & the final Light saga expansion, The Final Shape, will go live on Feb 27, 2024. Despite Bungie saying it before retracting a few years later, THIS IS NOT THE ENDING OF DESTINY and the game will keep being developed! #Gaming #GamingNews

Say whatever you want about 343 Industries & current state of #Halo (which I agree can be better). But NOBODY is going to take them away how amazing being able to switch from Bungie's version to 343i's remaster of Halo, Halo 2, Halo 3 & Halo 3 OSDT mid-game, carry on the spot.

Bungie has announced that Veteran voice actor Keith David will succeed late Lance Reddick as Commander Zavala on #Destiny2 going forward while all Reddick's dialogue past & present) will remain in the game. #Gaming #GamingNews