Destiny and Destiny 2 will both be offline this afternoon for scheduled maintenance. The downtime will be begin at 3pm BST, and will be completed at 7pm BST today. After the maintenance, Update v1.0.1.3 will be available for download, although no details on the content of the patch have been released.
Activision and Bungie have announced that Destiny: The Taken King has become the most downloaded video game on day-one in PlayStation history. Unfortunately, no hard numbers were released so it’s difficult to say just how many digital copies were sold. The original Destiny game also broke numerous records last year, but again, no numbers were ever released.
The next Destiny expansion, titled House of Wolves, is scheduled to release in May 2015. The expansion will open up The Reef to Guardians, and with it will come new content, including activities, modes, events and gear. However, you’ll have to wait a few more weeks to find out exactly what’s included.
Sony Computer Entertainment America’s President and CEO Shawn Layden has defended the DRIVECLUB launch issues by giving a poor excuse on how it’s hard to test concurrent users hitting servers. According to Layden, it’s hard to beta test “50,000, 100,000, 200,000 users hit your service”. But we already know that the Destiny beta managed to test over 850,000 concurrent users.
Bungie will be taking Destiny offline tomorrow for scheduled maintenance to prepare for future content updates. The downtime will begin at 16:00 GMT and will last for approximately 4 hours if everything goes to plan. This means the servers will be back online at 20:00 GMT.
Destiny is getting it’s first expansion pack in December, Bungie has revealed. Dubbed The Dark Below, the expansion pack features new weapons and gear, and new story, co-operative, and multiplayer activities. The DLC will be available form December 9th 2014, for a hefty price of £19.99 (without the season pass).
Bungie’s Destiny continues to do well in the UK Games Chart this week, keeping the top spot for the second week running. The game, available on a number of platforms including PS4 and Xbox One, has been hugely popular since its release two weeks ago. UKIE also revealed that 72% of PS4 sales for the week were the Destiny bundle.
Destiny is just days away from release, and a new video of the game has been released showing the Remote Play capabilities of the game. The video from PlayStation.Blog shows just how impressive, and responsive the remote play experience is. The team over at Bungie actually optimized the controls for Destiny on PS Vita via Remote Play, and the controls are displayed below.
Acording to Gamestop, Bungie’s Destiny has become the most pre-ordered new IP in history, with the PS4 receiving the most pre-orders. The beta for the game took place in July, with over 4.6 million players experiencing what the game has to offer. The game is scheduled for release in September, along with a exclusive White PS4 bundle.
