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On the same day it became a PlayStation studio, filed a lawsuit against a Destiny 2 player it accused of persistent cheating and making threats against its employees. The developer claimed Luca Leone violated the game's Limited Software License Agreement (LSLA) on multiple occasions. It's seeking $150,000 in damages and an injunction preventing Leone from “harassing, stalking or otherwise engaging in unwanted or unsolicited contact with Bungie, its employees or Destiny 2 players,” as  reports. Bungie said it banned…

We all shared a chuckle when Sony acquired Bungie immediately after Microsoft (the company’s previous owner) bought Activision Blizzard. It seemed like a retaliation back at the company. Well, Sony’s $3.6 billion acquisition of Bungie is now officially complete.Earlier this year, Microsoft shocked the gaming world when it announced that it acquired Activision Blizzard for $68.7 billion. This move will pluck several gaming franchises off of the Playstation store, unfortunately. Almost immediately after we got that news,…

The ink is dry on Sony’s acquisition of Bungie, the gaming company that created sci-fi hits Halo and Destiny. Both companies announced the news on Twitter Friday, confirming that the $3.6 billion deal had gone through without any surprises. While that’s a large sum for a relatively small company, the merger was modest enough to evade the antitrust scrutiny that Sony rival Microsoft triggered with its planned parallel acquisition of Activision Blizzard for $69 billion. Bungie may not be a sprawling entity like…

The developer behind Destiny is now a part of the Sony universe. Sony Interactive Entertainment officially closed on a $3.6 billion deal today to buy the independent game studio and publisher Bungie, according to from both Bungie and PlayStation Studios. Under the terms of the acquisition, Bungie will still maintain creative control over its operations and independently develop its games. As from have noted since the deal was announced in January, Bungie will be considered an independent subsidiary of Sony and won’t…

Bungie, the developer of Destiny 2, is now officially a part of Sony. The PlayStation maker had announced its intent to acquire the gaming studio in a deal worth $3.6 billion in January, and now, that acquisition is complete. Though it’s now under the Sony umbrella, Bungie will “continue to independently publish and creatively develop our games,” Bungie CEO Pete Parsons said in a blog post from the original announcement of the acquisition. And future games in development won’t be PlayStation exclusives, Bungie’s Joe…

PlayStation maker Sony announced a $3.6 billion (roughly Rs. 26,830 crore) agreement on Monday to buy US video game studio Bungie, creator of hits like Halo and Destiny, as a gaming industry battle heats up with Microsoft.Sony's deal comes weeks after Microsoft unveiled a landmark $69 billion (roughly Rs. 5,14,200 crore) pact to acquire Call of Duty maker Activision Blizzard, which Microsoft says would make it the third-largest gaming company by revenue behind Tencent and Sony.Bungie is based not far from Microsoft…

Bungie senior visual designer Signy Davis has called for industry-wide action “to secure equal treatment and health care access for transgender and gender-expansive people.” Sharing a statement on Twitter, Davis called on Bungie and parent company Sony to re-evaluate their relationship with their health insurance company Premera. She went on to call Premera’s consistent denial of gender-affirming surgery “dehumanising”. “I am tired of seeking care and receiving trauma instead,” Davis wrote. “Bungie and the industry need…

Did you save up a couple hundred bucks for the foam-firing Nerf version of Destiny’s legendary Gjallarhorn rocket launcher that went on preorder today? Hope you don’t live in Canada — because buyers are reporting they’re being asked for more than twice the price just to get it shipped to their door. The company says it’s working on a solution. When Destiny’s Canadian fans lined up for the $185 USD Nerf Gjallarhorn today, they were told it’d cost another $283.62 USD for shipping — add those together and convert, and…

Bungie may be working on a Destiny mobile game alongside Chinese publisher NetEase, according to a recent report.  The report comes via publication The Game Post, which previously spotted a job listing for a Destiny project last year. Now its been spotted that a NetEase artist posted on their LinkedIn that they had helped develop “an unannounced FPS mobile game” in collaboration with Bungie. Destiny 2. Credit: Bungie. A source has told The Game Post that the title in question is in fact Destiny-related and that it’s…

Bungie reportedly wants to grab a piece of the lucrative mobile gaming market pie with a Destiny game for Android and iOS. This hasn’t been confirmed officially, but multiple related clues point to the same conclusion. Bungie will be partnering with NetEase Games for the project. CEO Pete Parsons said that NetEase has “a significant amount of experience in mobile we don’t have”. This comes after reports that Bungie is looking into building its own mobile engine. Job postings reveal that the company is working on an…