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  • Report: Bungie Blames 100 Layoffs On Players Leaving Destiny 2

    Report: Bungie Blames 100 Layoffs On Players Leaving Destiny 2

    Bungie employees knew the Destiny 2 studio was struggling, but might not have expected a recent mass layoff of roughly 100 staff. That’s according to a new report by Bloomberg which details a meeting earlier this month in which studio leadership blamed poor player retention following 2023’s disappointing Lightfall expansion for revenue going off a…


  • Elden Ring Officially Mainstream As Sales Top Call of Duty

    Elden Ring Officially Mainstream As Sales Top Call of Duty

    Recent NPD figures reveal that FromSoftware’s latest gruelling action-RPG, Elden Ring, is toppling literal titans as it outsells Call of Duty: Vanguard, challenges Cyberpunk 2077, and, as Forbes’ Paul Tassi highlights, has shipped up to “half the lifetime sales of the entire Dark Souls trilogy’’ while leaving its FromSoft siblings Bloodborne and Sekiro in the…