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Editorials • Features

State of the Industry – The Rising Costs of Game Development

Over the past three years publishers’ sales expectations for their projects have risen dramatically.  Games like Dead Space 3, Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning, and Tomb Raider all carried a heavy burden to sell millions upon millions of copies to be considered a success.  By all accounts, these three games have been critically acclaimed and are worthy of a purchase yet some in the industry look upon their sales numbers as failures.  It is no secret that the cost to...

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Bungie Reveals Destiny’s Official Box Art

Bungie and the Official PlayStation Blog today revealed the box art for it’s upcoming game Destiny. Gone is the placeholder box art featuring the games mysterious traveler, and in its place is a new box pumped full of manly testosterone. The new cover shows each of our three types of heroes, the Titan, the Warlock, and the Hunter, each looking towards the traveler. The art style is done in a colorful and “poppy” style, which is a good departure from the...

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Preorder Destiny at Select Retailers and Receive Access to the Destiny Beta

Update: Looks like this is just about confirmed. The news page reveals the following in its page source code: “< div id=”atvi-text-569261” >    <p>Pre-order Destiny at select retailers and receive admission to the Destiny Beta. Play it first. Become Legend.</p>” That seems to be confirmation as good as any. Judging by that, preordering Destiny will most definitely grant you beta access on your console of choice. It would be silly...

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Is Bungie Planning a Destiny Beta Soon? Looks like it.

The Destiny fans over at Reddit have discovered something very interesting over on Destiny’s official website. Users of the website who tried to access the sites “news” page via an abnormal link were greeted with a broken, improperly formatted page, at the top of which shows a new link to a “Beta” page. The link, which is currently dead and points to nothing, appears to be an early sign that Bungie will be releasing a beta of the upcoming game...

E3 2013 • Features

Destiny Post-E3 Screenshot Analysis

Bungie has just recently released a boatload of new Destiny screenshots showing off what we saw during their E3 Presentation, I figured I’d take the time to break down what some of them are for the uninitiated. Clicking on any screenshot will give you the full-size HD version. – – – – – – This is a “Devil Walker” (commonly known as Spider Tank). It has a large cannon on top that fires high explosive rounds, and two small...

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Til Death Do We Part – The Halo: Reach Challenge Initiative Closes Its Doors

Three years ago, I found out about an idea. A genius idea that I was surprised no one had thought of yet: a website that allows you to view and help people with Halo: Reach’s in game challenges. Designed, coded, and made completely from the ground up the Halo: Reach Challenge Initiative, or HRCI for short, is just that. A service that allows you to comment on different strategies for honing in on each days daily challenges. Two years ago, HRCI opened up from its public...

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Destiny’s First Official Trailer Teaches Us the Dangerous Laws of the Space Jungle (And Blue Meth)

Bungie has released the first trailer for their upcoming game, Destiny. Set in a future where something (or someone?) has wiped out humanity, and only one great city remains under the protection of “the traveler”. You pick to play as either a warlock, a titan, or a hunter and fight to keep humanity safe and take back what was once yours. It’s truly one of the best looking games, and this trailer has now taken place as one of the best trailers I’ve...

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Activision Brings Destiny to the PlayStation 4

For the first time in, well, ever, Bungie will have a game on a Sony console. Destiny, Bungie’s new title with innovative new always connected multiplayer. They also showed some new in-engine footage of the game and it looks simply stunning. Bungie and Sony have just sold me on the PlayStation 4. This is my night. Destiny will let you access the content you love from all the devices you love. Destiny will also bring exclusive missions and content to the PlayStation...

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Everything You Need to Know About Bungie’s “Destiny” – Release Date, Gameplay, and More!

I’m going to try my best to compile absolutely everything I can about Destiny all here for you in this post. Before you do anything, watch the ViDoc below. From what we can gather on the games Amazon page, it will be releasing on Xbox 360 and PS3 (most likely next-gen consoles too) on December 31st. December 31st is an odd date simply because it’s after all the holidays. It might be plausible though, simply because December 31st is a Tuesday and all games come...