Bungie's new game and firings

[CompoSITe]

Kotaku says a fired employee has talked about Bungie's next game:

Bungie's follow-up to the Halo series is a massively multiplayer online first-person shooter, according to a source claiming to have knowledge of the game's development. That sci-fi shooter is currently named Destiny, he says, Bungie's original post-Halo franchise.

The ex-Bungie employee says that Destiny, codenamed "Tiger," will run on a new Bungie-developed graphics engine and feature unique online connectivity and matchmaking technology. It was also bluntly likened to "WoW in space."

http://kotaku.com/#!5762663/is-destiny- ... rs-of-halo

More of the terminated guy's quotes here:

http://www.kotaku.com.au/2011/02/breaki ... ontractor/

[Mazy]

Intriguing, I can definitely imagine them being able to put together a good MMO FPS with Halo already being a semi sandbox game. Not that an MMO necessarily has to be a consistent open world.

Sucks about the firings though, even if the guy is pissed then it sounds like Bungie handled it somewhat poorly.

[AlexM]

So Bungie finally breaks away from having to make space shooters and become independent only to end up making another space shooter.

[Zyn]

So uh ... Planetside Halo!

[Rick_D]

what is it with grumpy employees and their inability to respect an NDA?

[sarge mat]

Well I doubt they would fire anyone just because Activision asked them to. Was that not the entire point of them breaking away from Microsoft? Story's like these tend not to come from no where though and that's the second time the MMOFPS thing has come out.

[Gloglebag]

What a shitty thing to do to employees.

[Taylor]

http://www.bungie.net/News/Blog.aspx?mode=news#cid30678

Kotaku just post whatever they're e-mailed.

[sarge mat]

This is true I tend not to read the site at all, as its the scum of the internet and games "journalism".

[AlexM]

Has anyone else heard that Kotaku partially controlled by microsoft? They always posted garbage so I never read them in the first place.

A quick google got some interesting results..

[Mazy]

While on the subject of Kotaku, I've found myself basically not visiting the site at all after they changed the design. Can't stand it, makes navigating their site a chore. Also they seem like they go off topic constantly, every other post is about the editors having a conversation or something completely unrelated to anything. The Gawker sites in general are the tabloids of the internet blogging world, Kotaku just seemed a bit more decent for a while I guess.

But in all fairness then they did update the story about Bungie.

[Rick_D]

While on the subject of Kotaku, I've found myself basically not visiting the site at all after they changed the design. Can't stand it, makes navigating their site a chore. Also they seem like they go off topic constantly, every other post is about the editors having a conversation or something completely unrelated to anything. The Gawker sites in general are the tabloids of the internet blogging world, Kotaku just seemed a bit more decent for a while I guess.

But in all fairness then they did update the story about Bungie.

they updated it, then left the entire story up, including all the other quotes.

[Taylor]

Kotaku shouldn't post this crap in the first place. Surely as any calibre of journalist you can find out whether a company has just let thirty employees go before your run straight into the news feed with your hot exclusive story about it from a completely anonymous source (not a tipster who wanted to remain anonymous)? It's a phone call. But truth is they wouldn't want to do that, because they would prefer the web-hits from their completely unresearched article.

[Defrag]

Kotaku is a shitehole anyway.