Destiny 2’s Solstice of Heroes event debuted last week. Until it ends on August 28, you can relive the glories of the past while earning powerful new armour ... as long as you have a lot of time to spare.

Video games are constantly trying different ways to make you feel like the game you’re playing has exciting, tangible stakes. Some are more creative about it than others.

Today, intrepid Destiny players uncovered a hidden mission that appeared during an otherwise ordinary patrol event. After a few hours of widespread experimentation and failure, a group completed the challenge, unlocking a powerful weapon that’ll be familiar to anyone who played the first Destiny.

For the past week, Destiny fans have been furiously posting to message boards and making Reddit threads, venting, posting theories, and working out how best to focus their anger. They have been doing that for months, of course, but what's different now is that they're mad because the developers at Bungie want them to be. Cayde-6 is gonna die, and there's nothing anyone can do about it.

Tim Rogers is back with another E3 2018 booth tour. This time he has Activision in his sights. How plush is the carpet? What's the funniest way to truncate Call of Duty? Did Activision deliver this year?

The new trailer for Destiny 2: Forsaken hints at a shocking story twist, but at least one player saw the whole thing coming days ago.

Sure, everyone's worried about Cayde. But what Destiny 2 players have really been worried about lately is that, come September's Forsaken expansion, we're going to have to say goodbye to all our hard-earned gear.

Fortunately, today the expansion's director told PC Gamer that won't be the case.

One of the highlights of Destiny 2's upcoming fall expansion is Gambit, a competitive PvE and PvP mode that asks two teams of four players to fight each other in a very different fashion. I played a few rounds of Gambit at an Activision event in Los Angeles and am pleased to say that it's very, very good.

This week, Destiny 2's semi-regular Faction Rally event has returned with a lot of changes. Those changes are all for the better, particularly if you want to spend hours chasing hard-to-get rewards.

The next expansion to Destiny 2 is Forsaken, out September 4 and bringing a bunch of stuff to Bungie's space shooter, including a wild new mode and an overhaul of how weapons work.

Bungie has been quietly working on a non-Destiny new game for some time now, and today the studio acknowledged it for the first time, announcing a partnership with Chinese publisher NetEase that will raise them $US100 million ($132 million).

Even Bungie is having troubles dealing with Thaviks, The Depraved, it seems.

Destiny 2's new Warmind expansion is equal parts promising and frustrating, a step in the right direction that has also served to underline some of the game's biggest problems. Case in point: Escalation Protocol, a new mode that's frustrating players not because it isn't fun, but because it's almost impossible to properly play it.

I love the feeling of getting back into Destiny. No matter how long I'm away, picking it back up again is like slipping my hand into a well-worn baseball glove. After hundreds of hours exploring planets and killing everything in sight, things like the light double-click of the jump button to glide while sprinting as my Warlock feel both comforting familiar and still almost as good as the first time I did them.

Have you met Thaviks, The Depraved? He's a jerk. If you've ever finished Destiny 2's Exodus Crash strike, you've fought him, and probably hated him.

After playing through Destiny 2's campaign and conquering the player versus player gauntlet Trials of the Nine, I thought I was done with the game.

The release of the Warmind DLC has given me a reason to return, and I'm finding it incredibly awkward to be a powerful Guardian who doesn't remember game basics like how to change her subclass.

Destiny 2's Warmind expansion introduces a new area on Mars. Like the game's other patrol areas on Earth, Io, Nessus and Titan, the Mars map initially seems to simply be an area with some public events and some hidden chests. It's actually a lot more interesting.

A brand new Destiny 2 puzzle, discovered this week by players and solved early this morning, led not to an exotic weapon or a secret quest, but a real-life treasure cache in upstate New York, containing gold coins and a spear based on Warmind's Valkyrie.

There may be a complicated puzzle hidden inside Destiny 2's newest expansion, Warmind. Or maybe excited fans just want there to be. Either way, it's been fun to watch.