Bungie is finally ready to begin revealing details on the next big Destiny expansion, the studio confirmed on Thursday afternoon, announcing plans to host not one but two Twitch streams in the coming weeks. Sadly, we’ll have to wait a few more days before Bungie is willing to give us anything else. We don’t even a name for the upcoming content.
We’ve known for months now that a major influx of new content would be coming to Destiny this fall. For a time, Bungie was expected to released Destiny 2, or whatever Bungie plans to call the shared-world shooter’s “sequel”, by the end of 2016. That expectation was based on a leaked presentation that purportedly showed Activision’s original release timeline for the franchise. However, a recent report from Kotaku suggested those plans were scrapped in favor of another major expansion; one expected to be much larger than either of the Year One DLCs (The Dark Below, House Of Wolves) we saw back in 2015.
Interestingly, while it’s widely believed that we already know the name of the next Destiny expansion, not even leaked cover art for the project has managed to shed much light on the next big content drop for Bungie’s latest shooter. Additional reporting from Kotaku suggests the expansion will focus on Lord Saladin, the NPC associated with Destiny’s Iron Banner PvP event, and it’s believed the expansion will include a new raid. But that’s about all we know right now. There’s no word on whether or not the new expansion will expand the number of planets that can be explored by the Destiny community or introduce other improvements on-par with the changes we saw in last year’s Destiny: The Taken King.
Guess we’ll just have to tune in to next week’s live stream, which is currently scheduled for 10:00 a.m (PST) on Jun 9 on Bungie's Twitch channel, to find out more about Destiny: Rise Of Iron.
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