Yesterday, Bungie announced some big plans for the coming years, including new offices, new games and a new leadership team apparently responsible for branching out. Destiny 2 universe in other media.
“[O]n of the main drivers of Bungie’s expansion is to increase the commitment to the long-term development of Destiny 2, tell new stories in the Destiny Universe and create entirely new worlds on IPs to be announced, ” studio wrote on its website.
In material terms, the expansion includes a new large HQ office that effectively sounds like a mini-college campus, an international office in AmsTerdam focused on publishing and marketing, and new people hired at the executive level and on the board of directors, including the appointment of former Viacom CBS consumer products president Pamela Kaufman. In terms of aspiration, Bungie wants to expand the “Destiny Additional Media Universe ”and launch a new game before 2025. Bungie had previously announced was working on a newDestiny game as part of a $ 100 million publishing agreement with Chinese gaming company NetEase.
Previously synonymous with Halo, Bungie has spent most of the past decade becoming the Destiny company. It seems that the independent studio is looking to double this trend while still developing new projects. Last year, Destiny 2 director Luke Smith announced a multi-year plan to continue the game’s annual expansions instead of working on a Destiny 3, a change that came after the studio finally cut ties with Activision.
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All of this seems to be in line with the vision of a decade originally established for the first Destiny, which at that time-Bungie COO (and now CEO) Pete Parsons said he was part of the attempt to flip the IP in the game version of Star Wars and Lord of the Rings. Destinyhas always been a very cinematic game, with vocal talents ranging from Peter Dinklage and Gina Torres for Nathan Fillion and Lance Reddick. It seems that the perfect time for the world this’It is set to be taken to TV or the cinema, especially as Hollywood races to adapt all video games to fill its endless appetite for new content.