Another regular day in Marathon Land. Following on from mass layoffs at Bungie after the final major update for Destiny 2, ...

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What just happened? Bungie is cutting hundreds of jobs and scaling back its Destiny 2 operation as Sony and the studio rethink their live-service tech and shift resources toward new projects like the ...

Sony Interactive Entertainment is cutting jobs at Destiny maker Bungie. In an internal email, published to the PlayStation firm's website, Studio Business Group CEO Hermen Hulst said that a ...

The layoffs aren’t a rumor anymore. Sony cut most of the Destiny team and some of Marathon, the studio head is out, and the company that made Halo and Destiny is now smaller and fighting for its life.

Bungie studio head Justin Truman is reportedly leaving the company after nearly 17 total years across positions, including Destiny 2 design director and general manager. GamesRadar+ has reached out to ...

Destiny developer Bungie will lose a "significant number of employees" as part of brutal-sounding layoffs that will include "most of the Destiny team and some Marathon team members," PlayStation CEO ...

There are bad things happening over at Bungie. Sony just announced a major round of layoffs, primarily impacting the team behind the Destiny franchise. We don't know many employees were impacted, only ...

Back in May, Bungie announced that their long running shooter MMO Destiny 2 would be getting its final ever big update in June. At the time there were rumours that layoffs would follow not long after ...

Editor’s note: This story has been updated with details from the Washington State Employment Security Department. Bungie, the Bellevue, Wash.-based creator of the Halo and Destiny video game ...

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