Shaun McInnis, GameSpot Editor, has penned an article spelling out exactly what Bungie's new game, Destiny, is-- and is not:

"These are living, open worlds with evolving stories, changing time of day…and every one is full of players," says engineering lead Chris Butcher. "Destiny is an always online experience, but it's not an MMO."

John Gaudiosi at PCWorld interviews Bungie's COO, Pete Parsons, about Bungie's new game, Destiny. In the interview, Parsons again confirms that an element some fans were worried would be omitted is in the game-- namely, solo play:

Over at DestinyHub thesirchelios has written an article guessing at what we might expect from the different classes and factions of Destiny. So far there appear to be three known human Guardian classes (Hunter, Warlock, Titan) and five factions (Dead Orbit, Future War Cult, New Monarchy, Osiris and Seven Seraphs).

A good deal of new information about some of the alien races in Bungie's Destiny in this week's Mail Sack. Here, for instance, is some really interesting stuff about the Fallen from Urk:

Deej over at Bungie.net points the spotlight at the newest entry in the Bungie.net family of fansites: Destiny.Bungie.Org and its staff.

Steve Peterson at Gamesindustry.biz has put up a Photo Tour of the new offices Bungie is developing Destiny in. Of the things I didn't know about the building, this one was the most interesting:

Bungie's latest article in their Breaking In series of interviews is with Content Tools Team Lead Aaron Lieberman. He's working on Destiny's tools, the Grognok world editor and the Bonobo toolbox editor.

Over at Gamasutra, Shay Pierce wrote a piece entitled Game Designers and the Four Tribes of Artists, and then Sara Gross (also at Gamasutra) wrote a piece called Indie Elitism, partially in response. Response to what?

Artist Jesse van Dijk has done some of Destiny's concept art, including the Citadel. He's just now posted some of those Destiny images at CGHub, but and there's other stuff on his tumblr to check out as well.

VentureBeat's Dean Takahashi has interviewed Bungie COO Pete Parsons about his role with the Halo and Destiny franchises originated by Bungie. Quite a few interesting tidbits in there, but perhaps the most interesting one reaffirms the origins of the idea behind the new IP:

Freelance artist Kekai Kotaki has posted some of the concept art done for Bungie's Destiny on tumblr. Be sure to watch their tumblr for future imagery.

MoreConsole also has some video news and analysis pieces up about Destiny. There's one about the player classes and concept art, and then a frame-by-frame analysis of the PS4 reveal trailer.