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Ex-Bungie composer Marty O’Donnell wins epic legal fight with former bosses
Marty O’Donnell, the composer who created the music for the Halo and Destiny video games, has won his case in a legal battle with his former employer Bungie. Under a final ruling issued today from a...
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Arbitrator’s ruling in case of music composer Marty O’Donnell v. Destiny...
Here’s a copy of the ruling in the case of Marty O’Donnell, the former composer of music for games such as Halo and Destiny, in his arbitration case with Bungie and Bungie chief executive Harold Ryan....
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O’Donnell case is a window into Activision-Bungie creative-freedom dispute
Tension between creative freedom and business is often the norm with publishers and developers. In the alliance between publishing giant Activision and famed development studio Bungie over the shooter...
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O’Donnell attorney blasts Bungie for betraying its founding composer
The legal battle between composer Marty O’Donnell and Bungie, the game studio that made Destiny and Halo, took a huge personal toll and tore friendships apart, according to O’Donnell’s attorney. The...
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The Taken King takes Destiny from a joke to an achievement
I played Destiny last year, but I resented it. The multiplayer online shooter from Bungie had good mechanics, but so many other of its aspects were weak. The story sucked, the world felt...
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Destiny is getting a new in-game currency you can buy with real-world money
Destiny sure seems like a game built for microtransactions, and that’s probably because it was. And today, developer Bungie finally revealed how that will work. Silver is the name of a new in-game...
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Destiny’s story, one year later: The good, the bad, and the Dinklage
FEATURE: Destiny’s newest expansion, The Taken King, is getting strong reviews. But we should remember how much of a disappointment the shooter was to some when it first came out last year. It had...
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Destiny’s premium Silver currency a top seller on PlayStation Network despite...
It happened. Destiny players have fully embraced Silver. Even though the community feared the new currency would damage the gaming experience, the sci-fi shooter game Destiny’s microtransactions are...
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2015’s biggest news stories: breakups, court rulings, and a somber goodbye
FEATURE: Some major shakeups happened in the video game industry this year. It was a year that saw legendary game designers publicly falling out with their studios, major publishers spending billions...
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The 10 best RPGs of 2015: The Witcher 3, Xenoblade Chronicles X, Pillars of...
FEATURE: In 2015, role-playing games spread out in all directions. They went bigger and smaller. Some looked to the past for inspiration while others aimed to push the genre forward. We even saw...
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Destiny passes 30 million registered players
I guess it was this game’s destiny to become a hit. Heh. Yeah, sorry about that one. Activision Blizzard revealed its financial results for the first quarter of 2016 today, and it also noted that the...
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Destiny leak: Rise of Iron expansion coming September 20
Bungie wasn’t planning to drop the details on its next big release until tomorrow, but it let something slip early. Above: Destiny: Rise of Iron is only listed under Xbox One and not Xbox 360 on...
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Watch the Destiny: Rise of Iron trailer that’s playing on Snapchat right now
Bungie is about to drop all the details on its upcoming Destiny expansion in a livestream that’s on right now, but you don’t have to wait to get a peek at it. A trailer for Destiny: Rise of Iron is...
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Destiny: Rise of Iron launches September 20 for $30 — and not on PS3 or Xbox 360
It’s official. After a handful of leaks, Destiny: Rise of Iron is real. Bungie revealed the new expansion for its sci-fi shooter today on Twitch, and we now know that it will debut September 20 for $30...
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Destiny: Rise of Iron producer on the pressures of updates, engagement, and...
Maintaining a game like Destiny isn’t easy. The online shooter from Bungie for PlayStation 4 and Xbox One isn’t just another online product that a developer can release, deliver a few updates for, and...
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Finding thrills in Destiny: Rise of Iron by climbing a hidden mountain
I can think of many things that I want in an expansion for an online multiplayer game: new items, new levels, new equipment, and so on. I did not realize how much I wanted jumping puzzles. And yet...
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Destiny: Rise of Iron suffers from The Taken King’s excellence
It’s not easy to keep people playing the same game for years. To do so, you need a lot of content. You studios have to make so much stuff that you might overlook creating anything interesting. Destiny:...
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Destiny’s The Dawning holiday event is now live
Every Christmas celebration could use a few more laser guns. Destiny’s The Dawning is live now on PlayStation 4 and Xbox One. The holiday event brings time-limited holiday content to Bungie’s online...
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Destiny 2 resets your progress so you don’t have an advantage over new players
Destiny is coming to an end to give way to the upcoming sequel, and Bungie is revealing how it’s planning to proceed. Your Destiny character will survive the transition to Destiny 2, but Bungie...
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Destiny: Age of Triumph is the online shooter’s last hurrah before Destiny 2
The first Destiny isn’t done yet. Bungie revealed details on the next Destiny live event, Age of Triumph, for its PlayStation 4 and Xbox One online shooter. It will launch on March 28. The free update...
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