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Destiny beta ends with 4.6 million players

If you blinked, you could have missed it. On Sunday evening the beta of forthcoming massively multiplayer online shooter Destiny drew to a close. Since then, developers Bungie has revealed that a staggering 4,638,937 - that's just over 4.6 million players took part in the window between July 17th and last Sunday. This makes it…

30 July 2014 James O'Malley Gaming

Destiny Beta opens to everyone

Good news if you missed out on a beta code for Destiny: the game is now open for all players to download on both PSN and Xbox Live. The update comes just a week after PSN players could play exclusively. Worry not though Xbox gamers, as when Call of Duty: Advanced warfare comes out the…

25 July 2014 James O'Malley Gaming

Let’s admit it: Destiny isn’t wowing us so far.

Last Thursday at 6pm the switch was flipped and thousands of PS4 players were granted access to the playable beta of Destiny, the forthcoming massively-multiplayer shooter from Bungie. And here's the thing... is it really that impressive? Obviously this puzzlement should be heavily caveated with the fact that it is called a game beta for…

21 July 201422 July 2014 James O'Malley Gaming

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