Fried chicken dominates the front cover of Destiny: The Official Cookbook, a genuine recipe book on the slate for release in August 2020.
Written from the perspective of Destiny's ol' Eva Levante, this culinary companion claims it will "inspire fans to go on their own culinary adventure through the solar system".
The front cover appears to suggest this means fried chicken, sausage rolls and coleslaw.
Borderlands 3 has added a new gun that tips its hat to one of Destiny's most famous weapons.
The Borderlands 3 gun in question is a legendary assault rifle called Good Juju. Obviously, the name of the gun is a reference to Destiny exotic pulse rifle Bad Juju, which players of the first Destiny will know well. What's interesting though is it shares many of the perks of Destiny's Bad Juju, too. Good Juju, like Bad Juju, has burst fire. Good Juju, like Bad Juju, reloads on kill. Both guns have full auto. And even Good Juju's flavour text is a reference to Bad Juju.
Good Juju: "Kinda, sorta wants to end all existence."
I'm struggling to play Stadia games competitively online.
Google's video game streaming service launched on Tuesday night with 22 games, and I've spent the past few days trying out competitive multiplayer with those that have it.
I had wondered whether it would be feasible to play these parts of the games, given what from the outside looking in seems very much like a soft launch. I've found that, depending on what time of day you're playing, significant parts of some Stadia titles may as well not exist, simply because there are not enough people for matchmaking.
Bungie has been forced to remove the Telesto pulse rifle from Destiny 2 after players discovered an exploit that enabled them to instantly replenish their super ability bar without shooting a single enemy.
As detailed by Destiny YouTuber Ehroar below (thanks, PC Gamer), to fill their super, all players needed to do was fire rounds into the ground and throw a grenade onto them. By laying Telestro's non-detonating projectiles into the ground and them blowing them up with a grenade (AoE is best), the game - incorrectly, of course - labels those blown-up projectiles as enemy kills and boosts your super bar accordingly.
Add in and stack the Ashes to Assets or Enhanced Ashes to Assets mods/perks and things get even more out of control, as you'll build up your super even faster.
Destiny 2 players have managed to defeat a boss in Shadowkeep's Garden of Salvation raid using a cheese reminiscent of the very first raid in Destiny 1.
Veterans of the game might remember the boss battle at the end of The Vault of Glass, in which half the players had to jump in and out of portals to collect relics, while the other half kept timegates open allowing them to escape - then shooting the shit out of Atheon before having to do it again. Veterans of the game who couldn't be bothered with all that crap might also remember there was a cheese method of killing the big bad, which involved throwing grenades at the poor, simple Vex monster and watching it walk backwards off the map.
Undoubtedly inspired by this method, players have discovered that by throwing a well-placed Hunter's smoke grenade near one of the bottomless pits in Shaowkeep's raid, Harpy boss The Consecrated Mind can focus on the grenade while walking (floating?) backwards to its death.
Are you a fan of moon-wizard-based multiplayer sci-fi shooters and novelty footwear? Well then have I got exciting news for you! Bootmaker Palladium and developer Bungie have birthed a Destiny themed shoe straight from the almond-shaped central opening of this most audacious Venn diagram, and it's yours to pre-order later this week.
Palladium's Destiny shoe is a boot with a flap, tastefully presented in, I guess, astronaut grey, and adorned with a selection of franchise-appropriate labels and logos.
Speaking as someone who only ever played the story campaign of Destiny 1 and thought the whole thing was, honestly, ridiculous, my knowledge of Bungie's franchise is somewhat limited. However, Eurogamer's Tom Phillips assures me that the Destiny boots' Ocean of Storms insignia is a reference to an important moon-based location in Destiny lore.
Back at Gamescom, Bungie bosses assured me Destiny 2: Shadowkeep would move the franchise's overarching story forward in a meaningful way. It looks like they were right!
Shadowkeep's short set of opening missions, designed to reintroduce players to its reprised Moon location, begin with a whopper of a surprise. And, relatively quickly afterwards, they end with quite a tease for where things will go next.
If you're still reading this and don't want to be spoiled, this is your final warning.
Today's a big day for Destiny 2; not only is new paid expansion Shadowkeep out in the wild, the game (now divorced from publisher Activision) is being relaunched as a partially free-to-play title on consoles and Steam. Unfortunately, ongoing server issues have now forced developer Bungie to take both Destiny 2 and its predecessor offline for emergency maintenance.
When Destiny 2 came back online around 6pm today, following scheduled maintenance, many found themselves unable to play, with Bungie having implemented a temporary queuing system, presumably to ease traffic into the game after today's free-to-play launch.
As the evening progressed, however, an increase in servers errors and other issues was reported, leading Bungie to disable key online services.
Destiny 2's free-to-play New Light version launches today, and it begins very differently to the Destiny 2 which veteran players will know.
Up until now, Destiny 2 has begun with the start of its Red War campaign. This saw the Destiny 1 Tower destroyed, and required you to complete a number of story missions before the game properly opened up.
Destiny 2: New Light does away with the need to do all that.
This week is one of the biggest yet for Destiny. Not only is most of Destiny 2's existing content going free-to-play, but it's also the first major update since Bungie's split from publisher Activision - with a new expansion, a swath of changes to how Armour and monetization works (yes, there will be a Battle Pass) and a change of platforms on PC, with the game moving from Battle.net to Steam (which you can do as part of the newish cross save feature).
There's a lot happening, then, and this Destiny 2 Shadowkeep guide will explain what's changing for returning players, and what all the New Light content is if you simply want to play for free.
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