A flash drive lost by a third party contractor reveals art and information pertaining to Bungie's new project, Destiny.
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Court proceedings involving Activision reveal what appears to be a legitimate copy of the contract between Activision and Bungie for their new intellectual property, Destiny, which is intended to have a series of cross-platform releases with DLC over the next decade.
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Court proceedings involving Activision reveal what appears to be a legitimate copy of the contract between Activision and Bungie for their new intellectual property, Destiny, which is intended to have a series of cross-platform releases with DLC over the next decade.
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Leaks seem to be de rigeur for Bungie's new game, codenamed and possibly titled Destiny. First, court documents relating to legal disputes involving new publisher Activision revealed some of the general parameters of the game and the intended products, platforms and publishing schedules.
Now, apparently a third party employee forgot a flash drive at a restaurant, and supplied the gaming press with a few more documents and a few pieces of what appears to be concept art. In response, Bungie appeared to acknowledge the leak as legitimate, and replied with a bit of concept art of their own.
Since the leaked images have all been watermarked from hell to breakfast so that sites like IGN can stop other sites from stealing their "found footage" so to speak, I'm only going to take a close look at the shot Bungie actually wanted us to see, as well as the text quoted by some of the leak stories, and only describe the other images to try and back up some interpretation of the text or the official image. If you really need to see those other images, I'm sure the Internet will find a way to accede to your wishes.
Between the official image and the quoted portions of the text, it's possible to build up a few tentative ideas about what to expect from Destiny, and the kinds of ideas and themes the new game might share with past Bungie works.
Bungie said:
"Go ahead. Take a peek. It’s alright. We weren't quite ready, but we will be soon, and we can’t wait to finally show you what we've really been up to.
Stick around, we haven’t even started yet."
So right now I mostly play Halo: Reach, and soon I will be playing a lot of Halo 4, bet every once in a while I still love to play some Halo 3, anyone out there still play? I would love to get a group of Halo3 players going.
From this week's Breaking In interviewing Rachel Swavely it seems like motion capture is going to play a big role in what Bungie is doing with Destiny.
Here's the .pdf, .mp3, and .sib (Sibelius 6) files for a transcription of the piano part to 'Pounding the Pavement' from 'Mombasa Streets' on the Halo 3: ODST soundtrack.
It's not 100% perfect, especially the chords in measures 6 and 28.
If anyone wants one, I could put together a percussion transcription.
As for the Alto part, it's essentially a solo over a concert Gb, I believe.
Enjoy, and let me know what you think!
There's nothing really new here, but Shacknews picked up on a mention of beta testers for Destiny in Bungie's blog and spun it into a story.
A tweet by Urk was confirmed in the Bungie mailbag as indicating that Bungie's next game, codenamed Destiny and apparently featuring musical collaboration between Bungie's Marty O'Donnell and the Beatles' Paul McCartney, has reached a playable form. No further comment was available.
A very happy Bungie Day to all Bungiefen everywhere. Bungie doesn't have anything posted at their site yet, but go ahead and enjoy their Bungie Day Eve Mailsack until then.
There's a nice retrospective on the Marathon series today over at Reg Hardware. Thanks to Louis Wu at HBO for the heads-up.
TouchArcade has a story noting that Daniel Blezek's ports of the Marathon games (Marathon 1 and Marathon 2: Durandal by Bungie, and Marathon: Infinity by Double Aught) are available on iOS for free.
A Joystiq story today appears to reveal rather more information about Bungie's upcoming projects than fans are used to hearing during a quiet period. Aside from a few seconds of music and video, the term "Destiny" was about all we knew.
For some reason I can't find this anywhere, and I know it is a fan favorite. Been dying to be able to play on the piano.
P.S Especially pleased with theawesome1 and jarsp's work. If one or both of you find this post please do your thing. Thanks.