Bungie, the developer made famous for the Halo series of first-person shooters, is allegedly developing a massively multiplayer online FPS game with the impressive-sounding title Destiny, according to unnamed sources in an article published by gaming blog Kotaku. The source indicated the title will be built around a new graphics engine Bungie created and will be an online-only title.
This is the latest morsel in a trail of bread crumbs indicating just what Bungie’s project is. Activision COO Thomas Tippl indicated Bungie is interested in the “institutional knowledge that sits at Blizzard.” Blizzard is the developer behind World of Warcraft. Also, Bungie inked a 10-year exclusive publishing deal with Activision Blizzard last year, regardless of what the game will be.
Microsoft Game Studios Vice President Phil Spencer, in an interview last fall, wouldn’t clarify whether Bungie was working on an MMO, but he did concede the developer intended to “to do something interesting in the online space.”
Bungie’s next title will not be Halo, handing off the baton of that license to Microsoft Game Studios when it parted ways with the company last year and concluded its work on the series with Halo: Reach. Bungie’s next title could also be multiplatform, including the PlayStation 3 and the Wii for the first time.
[Source: CNET]:
