Bungie's Next Game Detailed by Reports

[jkipp82]

Destiny, a MMO FPS, to be Halo creator's next.

Bungie's next game is to be an massively multiplayer first-person shooter titled Destiny, if recent rumour reports are to be believed.

Kotaku is citing a source that details Bungie's first game for Activision, which is reportedly a sci-fi shooter set in space, and as expected it's to be an MMO which is described as "WoW in Space". It's currently called Destiny, though bear in mind Bungie often has numerous working titles for its games - Halo was, at various points in its development, called both Blam! and Monkey Nuts.

The source for Kotaku's report - a "recently terminated contractor" - also cites unfair treatment at Bungie as well as "budgetary concerns" which led to Activision requesting the layoffs. A poster on Bungie's forums has since discredited those claims, saying "Bungie has never been asked to lay off any employees or contract employees by our publisher, Activision-Blizzard, for any reason."

The suggestion that Bungie's next project is to be a sci-fi massively multiplayer first person shooter was not discredited, however, and the details chime in with what the studio has been hinting about its new game: at GDC last year Bungie's Joseph Staten told attendees "Wouldn't it be great if we could make a world that was always there for you?"

[Emerald Lance]

I knew MAG wasn't reason enough to get a PS3! Here's hoping it's a console game, and here's also hoping you don't have to pay much for it. Actually, wouldn't it e nice if we didn't have to pay at all?

[jkipp82]

i would never pay a monthly fee for an mmo fps. no point its just multiplayer with a ton more maps.