Bungie has been at the forefront of contemporary game development for ages now. Having cemented its worth with the seminalHalofranchise, the studio would eventually go on to produceDestiny, which is now its flagship IP and just so happens to represent one of the most reliable and longest-lasting examples of a successful game-as-a-service title.
It’s Bungie’s edge in GAAS development withDestinythat put the studio on Sony’s radar in the first place, in fact, as PlayStation’s umbrella company invested hundreds of millions of dollars into acquiring the studio, which may have funded Bungie’s desire to do more withDestinythan ever before. Now, with rumors of a mobileDestinygame circling about, it would seem that a new job listing may have just revealed one key detail about the project’s main focus.
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The notion thatBungie may be making a mobileDestinygameis fairly well-established by now, but the company’s new job listing for a Senior Concept Artist suggests that the game may primarily be a PvP experience. Said listing is looking for someone to work on a new game set in the world ofDestiny, and in the section titled “Nice to Have Skills,” it is mentioned that an ideal hire would have “experience with and love of competitive games.” Taken at face value, this implies that this specific title would be a competitive experience of some sort, but there’s a caveat to consider, too.
Namely, afterSony officially acquired Bungie, theDestinydevelopment studio seems to have been bolstered in its desire to bring the franchise to as many devices and formats as possible. While the rumors certainly suggest that there’s aDestinymobile game being made, it’s not impossible that there’s yet anotherDestinygame in production alongside the mobile title. Bungie’s Senior Concept Artist job listing doesn’t necessarily imply that the mobile game and the competitiveDestinytitle are one and the same, after all.
Keeping the above in mind, it really could go either way at this point, and both theories are equally valid until Bungie officially reveals more information about the rumored project(s). At this time, it’s still worth keeping a pinch of salt at hand about the situation just to be safe. The studio previously said thatDestinywill expand to other mediain due time, making it clear that Bungie intends to make theDestinyIP even more ubiquitous in the future.
Fans ofDestiny 2, specifically, don’t have to worry about Bungie forgetting its roots, either. It’s already known that there’smore content planned afterDestiny 2: Lightfallcomes out, and Bungie is likely going to want to keep its golden goose around for as long as possible to facilitate the development of other, more experimental projects, such as the mobileDestinygame.
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