Giant Bomb journalist Jeff Grubb and Bloomberg reporter Jason Schreier shared details about current projects at Bungie studios amid the mass layoffs announced the day before.
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As part of the new cuts, Bungie will say goodbye to 220 employees and integrate another 155 people into Sony Interactive Entertainment (SIE), which will transfer the early-stage action game in a new sci-fi universe.
As part of the Game Mess Mornings podcast, Grubb statedthat Destiny 2 will continue to receive new content, but Bungie will move away from releasing large expansions like The Final Shape in favor of less expensive sets of game content.
Grubb says that despite high reviews, The Final Shape’s release has failed to live up to Bungie’s expectations in terms of player engagement
According to Grubb, Bungie also canceled (or at least shelved) development of a project codenamed Payback, which the studio had been calling “the next Destiny” but not Destiny 3.
Schreier on his microblog clarifiedthat Payback was some sort of Destiny spinoff that was in very early development before it was cancelled. The game had been discontinued some time ago (before the layoffs).
As for Marathon, Bungie’s hopes for the PvP evacuation shooter are “sky-high,” according to Grubb. The studio is still reportedly planning to release the game sometime in 2025.
Grubb also surethat as a result of deeper integration with SIE, Bungie will lose its former autonomy and will join the ranks of other Sony studios, which are commanded by the head of PlayStation, Hermen Hulst.
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