Destiny: Bungie’s new game details leak

Since handing over the Halo franchise to 343 Industries, Bungie has been secretly working on an unnamed project, but it looks as if some details have slipped out early.

Being shown at a behind-closed-doors presentation, Bungie’s new project is said to be called Destiny, and is a shooter “still quite like Halo”.

Bungie was showing the game off to online infrastructure studio Demonware, who handle the online tech for the Call of Duty franchise.

An anonymous attendee of the event posted a blog (which has since been removed) which detailed what was seen at the event.

“This is not a dedicated server game, but there is some simulation and coordination running in their server infrastructure. The game was up and down a lot, playing in a team of 3 we did manage to experience entering a zone to find other players already taking on the bad guys, it’s cooperative so we helped out (mostly [name removed], I just died) before both groups went their separate ways. Which is a pretty cool experience, making you feel you are part of a much larger populated world.

“At the end of the day I was excited about the game, I like the feel of being in a large world with different destinations and the interactions along the way. It actually brought back a sense of exploration I recall from playing [Elite] many years ago, although there was no opportunity to shoot aliens in the face in Elite. I’m not fully sold on the appeal of being able to change the colour of a weapon, but I guess it works in China, and customization and individual identity is a big theme for the game.”

There are few other details regarding the game, but it’s said to be an open online shooter, with Activision on-board to publish the game.