Xur has been spotted in the Tower, and we track him down to reveal the Exotic goods he’s selling for Week 7.
Here's An Easy Way To Find Players For Destiny's Vault of Glass Raid
In the absence of matchmaking, one website makes it easy to find other players for Destiny’s Vault of Glass Raid.
Destiny: Legendary Gear Leaked For New 'Crota's End' Raid
New raid gear appears to have been leaked for Destiny’s first upcoming Dark Below DLC, complete with new armor sets for Hunters, Warlocks and Titans.
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.
This Hunter Beat Destiny's Raid 26 Times
Destiny player Toxic Bubble has beat the game’s challenging six-man raid more than two dozen times, earning a special mention from the devs at Bungie.
Digital Art Just Got Real With Ed
People are always talking about when digitally created art will surpass the point of realism, well, today may actually be the day that it happens. There have been countless CGI faces created from scans of real people’s faces and others that were drawn by artists, but the most realistic ones still come from digital scans of real people with vast amounts of depth data and minute flaws. This virtual world of computer generated people has slowly but surely been moving towards a point where one cannot tell the difference between a computer generated image and one that is simply a photo or a video of
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,
Diablo III Ultimate Evil Edition Review
Developer: Blizzard Entertainment Publisher: Activision Publishing Release Date: August 19, 2014 Platform: PS4 (Reviewed), Xbox One, PS3, Xbox 360 Genre: Action RPG, Dungeon Crawler MSRP: $59.99 Do Fear the Reaper Diablo III Ultimate Evil Edition is one of the best games available on the PlayStation 4. It’s jam-packed with some of the most exceptional console-based dungeon crawling you can find, and is bursting with infinitely replayable monster-slaying action. It pulls players into a world of never-ending ARPG chaos, and is a shining example that Blizzard are the masters of their craft. The Ultimate Evil Edition comes with the original Diablo III game as well as its Reaper of Souls expansion–along
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
Sierra Entertainment Is Reborn
Many gamers grew up playing Sierra Entertainment classics. By delivering memorable franchises like the immortal PC shooter Half-Life, the publisher had a hand at shaping that age of gaming. But like many industry greats, Sierra went defunct. Activision snapped them up back in 2008 and ever since it has been a subsidiary of the AAA-giant. Now it appears the label may be making a triumphant return. A new website for Sierra Entertainment teases that the landmark label may be coming back to our modern age of gaming. A brief video clip is seen on the page, along with hints that an official announcement is coming at this
Growth of Titans: Activision's Q2 Earnings Surpass Predictions
Activision-Blizzard surprised investors and analysts with a better than expected earnings report for its second quarter. In Activision-Blizzard’s newly released second-quarter earnings report, the gaming giant reveals that its revenue for the second quarter has surpassed original projections by $60 million. The company managed to top $970 million in revenue for the second quarter ending on June 30, 2014, pulling in a profit of $204 million citing continued growth in digital market as a major source of profits. However, while these better-than-expected figures pleasantly surprised analysts and investors when put in a broader context it shows that Activision-Blizzard’s revenue and profits are on an overall decline. Compared to
