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Destiny: This Week's Heroic And Nightfall Strikes Require DLC
Bungie locks this week’s Nightfall and Heroic strikes behind a DLC paywall, and gamers are pissed.
Destiny: Xur's Location And Exotic Wares For 12/5
Xur, Agent of the Nine has been spotted once again at the Tower, and we take a look at his Exotic wares for Week 13 lasting from Dec. 5 – 7. The Agent of the Nine isn’t selling anything particularly exciting, but he is offering the new Exotic Shards for the first time since Destiny‘s new title update. The shadowy merchant can be found in his usual spawning grounds in the Hangar, right outside the opening of the connecting corridor. Exotic Shards are now required to fully max out any Exotic item; Ascendant Shards and Energies are now longer required. But before you go rushing in
Destiny Update: Vendors Now Sell Upgrade Materials
Upgrading your items just got a lot easier: vendors sell mats and Exotics don’t need Ascendant mats to upgrade anymore.
Call of Duty Advanced Warfare TL;DR Review
Destiny's New Free Trial Lets You Import Saves To Full Game
Bungie embraces a “try before you buy model” for Destiny and lets players import their data to the actual game.
Call of Duty Advanced Warfare Review: Flawed Future
The Five Best Games of 2014
The holidays are right around the corner, and with our helpful buying guide you can pick up the best titles for the gamer in your life.
Destiny: Xur's Location And Exotic Wares For 11/14
Xur’s a bit like Santa Claus, and we’ve tracked down all the wares he’ll be offering Guardians for this week.
New Destiny DLC Comes Dec. 9, Adds New Strike, Raid and Level Cap
Destiny Has A New Engram Farming Spot That's Faster Than Ever
Tomorrow's Destiny Hotfix Will Interrupt Gameplay For 'Several Hours'
Bungie plans to offline Destiny servers for scheduled maintenance that improves network connection stability within the game.
Destiny Review: The Fault in Our Stars
Destiny is an expansive, evolving interstellar adventure, but Bungie has yet to tap into the game’s massive potential.
Destiny Gamers Log 100 Million Hours in First Week
The newly launched shooter Destiny has grossed more than $300 million in its first five days of availability, Activision (NASDAQ: ATVI) has announced today. Sales across the five-day period are estimated at $325 million, and include worldwide According the publisher, this is just one of the numerous sales milestones and records that the popular MMO-esque shooter has smashed. Other noteworthy achievements pin Destiny as the best-selling new video game franchise of all time, and it even holds the prestige as the highest day-one digital console release in history. Bungie has also stepped forward to deliver some pretty impressive statistics on Destiny‘s online play. According to the developers,
Buyout Rumors Cause Surge in GTA Publisher's Stock
The rumor mill has recently been busy belting out the latest bit of video games industry speculation: Call of Duty publisher Activision (NASDAQ: ATVI) might be planning to buy Take-Two Interactive (NASDAQ: TTWO). The rumors have tapered off over the last few days, but the supposed acquisition caused a surge in Take-Two Interactive’s stock. The publisher’s shares went up 4.14 percent (at a high of $23.66) in afternoon trades following the rumors. This is just short of its six-year high of $23.67 back in June. At time of press Take-Two’s shares are currently at $23.47 (down by 0.8%). According to Benchmark Analyst Mike Hickey, Activision buying out
New Destiny Video Tours PlayStation Exclusive Map Exodus Blue
Destiny is less than a week away, and PlayStation has just detailed the exclusive map Exodus Blue in a new video. The PlayStation exclusive multiplayer map is optimized for 3-on-3 and 6-on-6 matches in Destiny‘s Crucible PVP mode. It supports five gametypes including Skirmish, Control, Salvage, Clash and Rumble. Skirmish, a 4-on-4 team deathmatch mode, is shown during the footage. In terms of aesthetics, Blue Exodus heralds a return to Old Russia, a region scattered with broken buildings and breathtaking sun-lit vistas that all beta players will remember. The map itself is built around an old colony ship called Exodus Blue that served Earth during the Golden Age of expansion brought on by
Sierra Returns as Activision Indie label, new 'King's Quest' Incoming
As promised, Activision today revealed the mysteries behind Sierra Entertainment’s resurrection at Gamescom 2014. The previously defunct label will be returning to foster indie games development for the industry giant, and to start Sierra is help create a new entry in the fan-favorite King’s Quest franchise with indie crew The Odd Gentlemen at the helm. Queue the triumphant fanfare! The new King’s Quest, which is due out in 2015, features a “wondrous interactive narrative brimming with humor”. It centers around King Graham, a legendary adventurer, who regails his tales of heroic derring-do with his grand-daughter Gwendolyn, who is enamored by magic of storytelling. Sierra Entertainment plans to have a key presence
Sierra Returns as Activision Indie label, new 'King's Quest' Incoming
As promised, Activision today revealed the mysteries behind Sierra Entertainment’s resurrection at Gamescom 2014. The previously defunct label will be returning to foster indie games development for the industry giant, and to start Sierra is help create a new entry in the fan-favorite King’s Quest franchise with indie crew The Odd Gentlemen at the helm. Queue the triumphant fanfare! The new King’s Quest, which is due out in 2015, features a “wondrous interactive narrative brimming with humor”. It centers around King Graham, a legendary adventurer, who regails his tales of heroic derring-do with his grand-daughter Gwendolyn, who is enamored by magic of storytelling. Sierra Entertainment plans to have a key presence
High-Tech Chaos Ensues in the New 'Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare' Multiplayer Gameplay Trailer
Today Activision unveiled world premiere multiplayer footage for Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare that left quite an impression. The trailer showcased key elements of the multiplayer experience, highlighting the blisteringly frenetic pace of combat and satisfying array of high-tech gadgets and guns. The arsenal includes some innovative new toys such as a wrist-mounted grenade launcher, a concussion rifle and even a heat-laser that is startlingly similar to Halo 3‘s Sentinel Beam. Other goodies include fanciful space-age war-toys like machine-gun toting drones and turrets that rain a hell of bullets on enemies to tried-and-true SMG’s. There was also this thing, which looks like it delivers terrible death on anyone that
Bungie Wipes 'Destiny' Beta Characters and Vaults
If you were one of the many beta-testers who hoped your Guardian(s) would bask in the Light of the Traveler on launch day, we have some bad news for you: Bungie has announced that Destiny‘s beta characters won’t transfer over to the full release. And the vaults have been wiped too. Ouch. We’ll Miss You, Gjallarhorn Over 4.6 million gamers played the Destiny beta, and most of us expected that a wipe would be imminent. Our Titans, Hunters and Warlocks would be flushed away, and having met the Level 8 cap with speed, it wasn’t such a big deal. But our vaults were another story. Every piece
