Bungie reduces contact with the Destiny 2 community after threats

Bungie has confirmed that it has deliberately reduced its contacts with Fate 2 society after excessive harassment and threats directed at the studio. Bungie has always been a very transparent studio, even going back to its days in the Halo series. Not only will it actively engage with the community through special in-game events and content, but it will also release things like vidocs, which have been behind-the-scenes videos highlighting their game development. They’ve been incredibly well received and a breath of fresh air for a well-known secret industry that…

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Bungie officially joins PlayStation as a first-party studio

Bungie has officially joined PlayStation as the new first party studio. Earlier this year, it was confirmed that PlayStation was acquiring Bungie for $3.6 billion, which is far from healing the historic Xbox and Activision deal. Of course, these deals don’t happen overnight, so work was in the works before the Xbox news broke, but it was an interesting timing. Bungie made its claim to fame as an Xbox studio in the 2000s thanks to the Halo franchise. The series helped put both Bungie and Xbox on the map, but…

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YouTuber Destiny 2 has been sued by Bungie for $7.6 million

In what is surely a wild turn of events, a Fate 2 YouTubers are now being sued by Bungie for millions of dollars after massively manipulating YouTube’s copyright system. YouTube’s copyright system has come under fire over the years for a number of reasons, largely due to how easy it is for a company or person to remove a channel’s content or strike a blow at a channel, sometimes without a court order. It led to many public fights with top creators and big companies, but the latest incident was…

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Bungie slams YouTube in fateful copyright lawsuit

A new lawsuit from Bungie reveals that the developer is highly critical of YouTube over its DMCA. YouTube is by no means a perfect service, as the platform has faced many problems over the years. Although it is one of the most popular sites ever, YouTube has a lot of moderation issues. The sheer size of the platform and how easy it is to upload content means the platform can’t manually review every video, so it used tools to help crack down on issues like copyright violations, but it has…

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