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Bungie unveils the first gameplay details of sci-fi shooter Destiny 2

Activision and Blizzard revealed the first gameplay details of science-fiction shooter Destiny 2 at an event in an aircraft hangar in Hawthorne, California.

Destiny 2 comes out September 8 for PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC, and it’s available to preorder now. The game will replace the original Destiny, which launched September 9, 2014 and had more than 30 million registered players (stellar numbers for an online multiplayer game, especially one that launched at $60).

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.