A Destiny cellular recreation is reportedly in improvement over at NetEase underneath the identify Destiny Rising, and it may very well be introduced quickly.
This rumor initially got here from Twitter consumer Kurakasis, who stated that Destiny Rising hasn’t been canceled regardless of developer Bungie’s latest layoffs. Large Bomb’s Jeff Grubb has corroborated this rumor over on Threads, saying that the sport will reportedly have Hero characters as a substitute of getting gamers create their very own characters. Nonetheless, it seemingly will nonetheless retain the identical form of feeling of taking part in Destiny on console or PC, however simply on cellular.
Final month, Bloomberg reported that in early 2022 when Sony bought Bungie, the developer went forward and employed new workers to work on a number of incubation initiatives, together with cellular variations of Destiny. It is potential that Destiny Rising is a kind of. Nonetheless, a Destiny spin-off, codenamed Payback, was reportedly canceled. Internally, Bungie referred to it as “the following Destiny” as a substitute of “Destiny 3.”
When 17% of Bungie workers have been let go from the latest restructuring, Destiny veterans together with govt artistic director Luke Smith and vice chairman Mark Noseworthy additionally departed. Nonetheless, it was later clarified that they reportedly left on their very own accord as a substitute of because of the layoffs.
Mobile variations of widespread video games have develop into more and more widespread. For instance, Tencent reportedly has a cellular model of Elden Ring at present in improvement. The firm additionally acquired the rights to publish a cellular model of Blue Protocol earlier than the sport’s shutdown announcement.