Rampancy

Umbra Software, makers of Umbra 3, have put up a blog post about how their middleware is being used for world creation and rendering in Bungie's Destiny. They'll be doing a presentation on it at GDC this year as well.

Nope, not doing one.

Bungie's latest Mail Sack is up. Here's a highlight:

MastaSin In Destiny, can we play as the aliens or are we locked to the human race? And if we are, why are we locked to the human race? What's the reason?

Deej Not all of the aliens in Destiny are evil, just like not all humans are good. We’ve barely scratched the surface on the character and customization options you’ll have access to in Destiny, but we’re not going to dig in any deeper today.

I believe one of the early IGN stories seemed to indicate that players would only be humans, but this seems to cast a bit of doubt.

Claude Errera has announced that DBO is now building their Destiny Video Archive. Right now what's there are the two official vids, with more stuff to come.