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Halo composer Marty O’Donnell has formed a new development studio dubbed Highwire Games with Airtight Games co-founder Jared Noftle and former Bungie designer Jaime Griesemer. VG247reports O’Donnell revealed the news earlier this week, encouraging fans to stay tuned for more information.” Some additional digging on the company’s website and Linkedin …

'The Bungie community's amazing support will translate immediately and directly into help for people in Nepal'

The collective efforts of Bungie, Activision and Destiny players have helped raise over $1m in aid for the relief efforts in earthquake-hit Nepal. Nepal was in April hit with a 7.8 magnitude earthquake, claiming the lives of over 8,800 people. Bungie had been selling a $30 t-shirt, along with in-game …

Bungie has applied for a trademark relating to something called The Taken King,” according to a US Patent and Trademark Office filing unearthed today. Polygon reports on the discovery, pointing to evidence that the downloadable video games” trademark could be related to Destiny. The logo attached to the filing is …

Destiny was the best New Games Brand of last year, the industry has ruled. Activision and Bungie’s sci-fi shooter outdid major rivals including Middle-Earth: Shadow of Mordor, Titanfall, Watch Dogs and Hearthstone to take the hotly-contested accolade at this year’s MCV Awards. The game adds the title to its already …

Destiny’s House of Wolves expansion will arrive next month, Activision has announced. The game’s second expansion will release May 19th for $20, or alternatively is included in the Destiny Expansion Pass. House of Wolves is said to carry an exclusive Raid, a new Awoken storyline, a new Fallen Strike, new …

Josh Hamrick joins the Skyrim and Fallout firm, although no word on which franchise he's working on

Destiny and Halo: Reach senior gameplay designer Josh Hamrick has announced his departure from Bungie to join Bethesda in an unspecified role. Hamrick – who joined Bungie in 2009 – revealed the news in a series of posts on Twitter earlier today. "Next Friday, after nearly 6 amazing years and …

The British Academy Games Awards were held last night, with big wins for several UK studios including Ustwo Games, Creative Assembly and Roll7. Ustwo Games were the big winners of the night, picking up two awards for its seminal mobile puzzle game Monument Valley. The title received best British Game …

Monument Valley dev only studio to pick up more than one award