Destiny 2: news and videos

If you missed your chance to try Destiny 2's wonderful mishmash of PvP and PvE because you were hanging in Seattle for PAX or were otherwise indisposed, good news: Gambit is getting another trial. All Destiny 2 players will have access to G...

Gambit is an all-new mode introduced in Destiny 2: Forsaken expansion, and it's arguably the best part of the DLC. It's also a tad confusing if you're jumping into it sight unseen, so here's some tips to help you along and assist you in pic...

As most of you know by now a piece of Destiny DLC isn't done with its campaign, and that principle still applies to Destiny 2: Forsaken. There's no spoilers present (only lightly in terms of mentioned names), so dig in as I guide you t...

The original Destiny's Taken King expansion (otherwise known as The Big One) offered up extra subclasses for players to experiment with, and Destiny 2's Forsaken add-on follows that up with something a little different. Now you can try...

Bungie occasionally tucks away secrets in the Destiny series for folks to locate, and this is one of their least hidden Easter eggs yet. Immediately after unlocking the open world portion of the Destiny 2: Forsaken expansion (Tangled Shore)...

It's been several years since the Destiny franchise launched, and now Bungie is attempting something new with their proprietary Bungie account system. In short, all players can opt-in to a reward system of sorts, which kicks off with the Fo...

New Destiny hub, new public events, and new ways to trigger the Heroic (read: expanded version) phase of them. On Destiny 2: Forsaken's Tangled Shore you'll come across public events in wide open areas with Fallen prisoners, and t...

Destiny 2 has a lot riding on today's Forsaken update. Many of its fans quit at various stages of its content rollouts, including the two micro-expansions, and this big drop is seeking to be the thing that keeps people hooked. In short it's...

For the past week or so Destiny 2 has been running on its Forsaken expansion pre-patch, but now that the whole shebang is live, we know a little more about how future infusions will work. Even minute infusions like purples in...

There once was a time when Destiny updated early in the morning, US time, and my entire crew loved it. Taking off work or simply logging in in the wee hours of the morning was an incredible feeling, like you were starting your day with...

Destiny 2's Forsaken expansion is out next week, but its initial raid offering isn't. Last Wish is actually due to spring up 10 days after its launch, which has created a rift within the community. Some think it's not long enough, and some ...

Destiny 2's latest expansion that's going to be more inline with the big Taken King update in Destiny 1 and less piecemeal, is ready to launch next Tuesday -- but before then we'll get a quick look at content Sony is getting exclusively for...

Destiny players are used to waiting for raids. Usually, a raid will go live a few days after an expansion launches. For Destiny 2's Forsaken add-on, players will have to wait more than a few days. Bungie has just confirmed that F...

I've been waffling on Destiny 2, but this is too tempting to ignore. Just ahead of the Forsaken expansion, Bungie will give all players trial access for the new PvPvE invasion mode Gambit on September 1. Barring any incidents, you'll have 2...

Destiny 2 just kicked off one of its biggest grinds in the series -- the Solstice of Heroes. I'll my best to break it down below (you can also just scan and subsequently close this spreadsheet from Reddit user Guyovich67), but suffice to sa...

While the vast majority of my crew has quit Destiny 2, I'll at least be starting up again to see what the Forsaken expansion has to offer. If it aligns with Destiny 1's lifecycle it'll fix quite a bit, but there's so much still wrong w...

Anyone who has sat out on Destiny 2 thus far won't have much trouble getting caught up when this fall's Forsaken expansion releases. Activision predictably has made the on-boarding process quite simple by introducing a new versio...

I love discovering gaming setups. As an amateur collector witnessing how others curate their own collections is a rush, and "rush" definitely describes the feeling I got after looking at this Destiny setup from jagger393939 Noting that...

The Destiny cycle has begun anew. Note that I'm not necessarily qualifying that statement with "Destiny 2," as this whole saga kicked off and was completed with the first Destiny -- the game launches, big changes take twice as long as most ...

A dual-firing rocket launcher, armor that reflects projectiles while you slide, and a bow that lets you peer through walls -- yeah, Destiny 2 is stepping up its gear game with September's Forsaken expansion. I'm also extremely down for One...

In the upcoming Destiny 2: Forsaken DLC, it seems that Nathan Fillion will not be returning to the role of Cayde-6. Speaking with Kotaku's Jason Schreier, Fillion revealed that Nolan North (Uncharted's Nathan Drake) will be stepping in to f...

Every time I come across a quirky feature or an Easter egg I make a judgment call of sorts. It really just boils down to "is this worth sharing?" And given that the vast majority of the responses that I've read had no idea this concept exis...

If you still happen to play Destiny 2, you'll definitely want to log in on July 31 to get in on the new Moments of Triumph event. Just like the previous celebrations for Destiny 1, it's an achievement hunting set of tasks that require playe...

Bungie just updated its playerbase on Destiny 2's latest happenings by way of their weekly blog post, and on July 17, parch 1.2.3 hits. Among other things like PVP updates it'll finally bring Prestige difficulty to the game's two raid lairs...

Bungie is looking to sway newcomers with a Destiny 2 free trial weekend on PS4. All modes are included and the promo runs from Friday, June 29 at 12:01am Pacific until Monday, July 2 at 10:00am. You can download the trial right here. It's...

Bungie recently did a new pass on Destiny 2's exotic weapons, tuning them up so that people will actually use them outside of the few meta min-maxed items for high-end content. It was long overdue, but they left out a huge aspect of the re-...

Bungie's showcase of Gambit, the upcoming PvPvE mode for Destiny 2, did what it needed to at E3: it convinced me that I'm still capable of getting back into this game -- and this is the mode to pull me in. Not new storylines or loot grinds ...

Platform exclusive wars have become fucking cat fights. When Sony famously took Microsoft to task on its E3 stage for its now-reversed regressive stance on used games, MS would in turn retort a few years later with double-generation backwar...

Directly following the announcement of the upcoming major Forsaken expansion, Bungie dropped some big news in their reveal stream -- the "season pass" concept is getting a complete overhaul. Rather than do the whole "one big expansion,...

Bungie has revealed the new expansion for Destiny 2, dubbed "Forsaken," and it looks like the first substantial update since launch. It takes place on the Tangled Shore (part of the Reef), and deals with a horde of prisoners -- or as B...

In what is one of the slowest cycles for a AAA game in recent memory, Bungie is slowly chipping away at issues in Destiny 2. It hasn't quite solved the content problem, given that the last two expansions were tiny and only introduced normal...

Destiny 2, much like the original, has been having a whole host of issues since launch. Bungie will often times just push the "go" button and deploy patches while closing their eyes, and all sorts of code will just rattle around in the proc...

Although they will have a presence at the show, Bungie is going ahead and skipping a full E3 reveal for its "Year 2" plans, and will instead reveal them completely ahead of time on June 5. The stream will take place on Bungie's Twitch chann...

Every so often studios will put time into crafting alternate reality games. Some of them don't go so well, like the time Capcom scattered fake body parts throughout a major city, but some are pretty awesome. I think this recent Destiny 2 st...

Today marks the release of Spire of Stars, Destiny 2's latest raid "lair," followed by the proper raid Leviathan, packed in the base game, and the micro-raid Eater of Worlds, released with the first disappointing Curse of Osiris D...

On a stream today, Bungie and Vicarious Visions detailed Warmind, the Mars-centric expansion for Destiny 2. It's due out in just two weeks -- on Tuesday, May 8 for $20 -- and spans a few key additions. There's a new horde-mode-like endgame ...

Bungie is almost ready to lift the lid on Destiny 2's next expansion, Warmind, but for the time being the studio has released a new teaser trailer. The next stop for Destiny 2 players is going to be the Hellas Basin on Mars, and there's als...

Bungie has shared an updated roadmap for Destiny 2 that stretches into September (with new features like weapon randomization) and schedules the second expansion, Warmind, for May 8, 2018. The studio vaguely describes Warmind as sending pla...

Destiny 2's development schedule is even more slow-going than Destiny 1 somehow, but one could make even more relevant, recent comparisons to account for said slowness. The standard that Bungie needs to be held to is the current landscape, ...

Bungie is rapidly losing their audience with questionable decisions for Destiny 2 and its lukewarm post-launch content drops, but an upcoming Prestige raid "improvement" sounds like one of the worst changes yet for dedicated raiders. I...

Bungie has some catching up to do with Destiny 2. Over time it was clear that they weren't up to the task of supporting it in the short term, so now they're aiming for a schedule that's a little more involved -- say, to the end of 2018. In ...

Bungie was basically shut down for the entire holiday season when Destiny 2 was at its worst. Fans were demanding answers for changes, for the focus on microtransactions, and the complete lack of communication from the studio after pro...

While The Dawning was running over the past few weeks, Bungie was mostly on vacation and communication has been fairly dark. It broke the silence today with a huge blog post touching on its plans for Destiny 2 in 2018. In an attempt to be l...

One of the biggest letdowns in Destiny 2's first expansion (and Bungie's entire history, actually) is the "Infinite Forest." Initially this was billed as some sort of repeatable activity, and some fans even thought it would operate like the...

[Update: The onslaught continues. It's been roughly two weeks and every day, almost every single topic on the official forums is filled with "down with Eververse" posts. It's very rare that you see this kind of momentum, and Bungie has hit ...

Christmas has come and gone, and with it a lot of shiny new game systems have been brought into homes all around the world. Sony and Activision have thus seized the opportunity to push a sneaky, sneaky ad on your PS4 dashboard (similar to t...

Odds are you're against loot boxes. The argument that they're "cosmetic" isn't enough to outright ruin a lot of games for me, but that doesn't mean I have to agree with the practice. The idea of locking so many skins and cool-looking conten...

Xur, the creepy guy who sells players randomized special loot each week since the start of Destiny 1 (and by proxy, 2), is back once again today, but he's getting a few changes to make him more enticing. For one the "Three of Coins" item re...

This week, Destiny 2's "Flashpoint" exercise is on Mercury. For the uninitiated, this is an easy weekly mission that each character can complete through public events that grants one piece of "Powerful Gear," one of the best ways to level u...

It's always something! Following complaints that Bungie had locked Destiny 2 players out of previously-accessible content (including some related Achievements/Trophies) with the release of the game's Curse of Osiris expansion, the studio ha...