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Destiny (opens in new tab)’s weekend merchant, Xur, is back in the Tower. This time he’s down near the Vanguard hall, hanging out by the Crucible quartermaster. Yep, just kicking it back with Arcite, downing a few cold ones and exchanging embarrassing university stories over high-grade, imported cigarettes. But what …

Out with the Dinklebot, in with the Northbot. This new teaser trailer for tomorrow’s Destiny: The Taken King stream (opens in new tab) introduces a lot of new material in 44 seconds, but the most intriguing bit has to be when Ghost opens its little metal flaps and Nolan North’s …

In the somewhat chaotic lead-up to Destiny’s monolithic Taken King expansion, amid the furious gnashings (opens in new tab) of long-term players desperate to buy expensive dance emotes, and the game’s Red Bull promo (opens in new tab) looking devastated by, ironically, a player-made random number generator (opens in new …

Elite Dangerous (opens in new tab)’ sprawling interstellar setting is so big it would probably make Matthew McConaughey sweat at sight of its dark depths, but how did developer Frontier Developments manage to create something so darn huge? In a new interview with Official Xbox Magazine, art director Chris Gregory …

Virtual reality is one of the fastest-growing fields in game development and technology, but its advancements have all been shadowed by one problem: it’s still a great way to get really nauseous, really fast. But, according to researchers at Purdue (opens in new tab), one remedy for “simulator sickness” may …

Everybody wants to know what’s happening next with Destiny. And pretty every member of that same group of ‘everyone’ would like to see dogfighting in orbit. Surely Bungie is aware of that fact? Well, let’s find out from Bungie’s community manager, Eric Osborne…

There are 400 billion star systems in Elite: Dangerous’s 1:1 recreation of the Milky Way. That’s as many as scientists think are in the one we’re spinning through now. It’s a dizzying, overwhelming number, but makes for a compelling space sandbox. If you see a star glinting in the sky, …

This week, we’re highlighting the top five titles in our Game of the Year 2014 (opens in new tab) list. Destiny (opens in new tab) ranks at #1 – and here’s Andy Hartup’s take on what makes it so important. Destiny is not a perfect game. Its plot is vague, …

Ready check Bungie is adamant that Destiny is NOT an MMO. Odd, considering all the traditional MMO terminology is there: instanced dungeons (called Strike missions here), competitive player-versus-player combat, raids. All these things are core tenets in the MMO genre. Especially that last one: raids. I love raids. But if …

Activision has confirmed that Destiny’s 10-year budget is $500million (as reported by CVG News (opens in new tab)). Not only will Dr Evil’s finger will be getting quite the workout, that also means Destiny action is pretty much guaranteed for the next ten years. But wait a sec… New IP? …