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Marathon, the Bungie-developed extraction shooter, is reportedly facing production struggles, with some devs not confident the game will make its internally planned release target in 2025.
This Week in WoW, catch up on the latest World of Warcraft news from the last week!
Post-layoff justifications are fast becoming their own brand of technobabble. In case you're out of the loop, Bungie laid off 220 employees late last month due to «rising costs of development», «economic conditions», and all the things you're used to hearing by now.
World of Warcraft: The War Within's story is shaping up to be, against all odds, actually kinda neat. While Dragonflight had its ups and downs, it marked a lean away from the 'big guy in armour saying pitiful mortal at you before teleporting away' storytelling of Shadowlands and into, well, characters that actually talk to each other like people.
Warning: Major spoilers for Borderlands below!
It turns out that if you fire a bunch of your QA staff, the game you're making will tend to run into quality issues. I'm not saying the problems with Destiny 2's latest patch are a direct result of last week's drastic headcount reduction at Bungie, but it can hardly help.
A week on from the mass layoffs at Destiny 2 developer Bungie, Sony Interactive Entertainment's chairman has pointed to "efficiency" and "portfolio optimization" as the reasoning behind 17% of the studio's staff being laid off.
Destiny 2: The Final Shape was a great expansion that quietly made a few perplexing additions in-between mostly great ones, with the new Pathfinder reward system being one of the more confounding. Obtuse, buried in menus, and seemingly featuring objectives chosen by throwing darts at a wall of numbers, the Pathfinder could lead to wild swings in reward cadence, especially compared to previous pursuits. Bungie says Pathfinder has ended up unexpectedly stingy on Bright Dust in particular, the free currency used to purchase some Eververse shop items, so it's giving out a whole bunch of the stuff for free for the next nine weeks.