Destiny 2 News

This week in Destiny, we’re just days away from The Final Shape. Are you ready? Did you get all the gear you were aiming for? We hope so! And while we can’t give you any drops you may be missing, we can give you information on the new Artifact perks so you can start fine-tuning your perfect build.

List of topics for the week:

• Destiny 2 x Dungeons & Dragons collaboration.
  
• The Final Shape Artifact perk preview.
  
• Raid World First race details.
  
• Displate art for The Pantheon now available.
  
• The Pantheon Creator Challenge concludes.
  
• Fireteam Finder voice chat update.
  
• Cosplay Cosmodrome.
  
• Bungie Rewards last chance.
  
• 24-hour downtime for The Final Shape launch.
  

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Destiny 2's hotly anticipated expansion The Final Shape has suffered an enormous leak just days prior to launch, after PS5 players were mistakenly allowed access to the entire expansion via Sony's Game Streaming service...
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Trying to work out what you need to do before The Final Shape arrives? Bungie has put out a lot of info over the past few weeks about tweaks to weapons and various systems that are getting retired with the new expansion. It's hard to keep track of exactly what's staying and what's going away when year seven of Destiny 2 kicks off...
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s a long-time Destiny 2 player, it's the new systems of next week's expansion, The Final Shape, that have been occupying my brainspace. The buildcrafting potential of the new Prismatic subclass; the sandbox impact of the nerf on Well of Radiance—that kind of thing. But in a recent hands-off demo, Bungie gave a tour through the other part of a Destiny 2 expansion: the intriguing new destination...
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Bungie has now won its lawsuit against Destiny 2 cheat sellers AimJunkies/ Phoenix Digital, though it's not much of a win.

Earlier this week, the trial between Bungie and cheat sellers AimJunkies began, and as reported by Stephen Totilo, it was a win for the Destiny 2 developer. This was a pretty landmark case, as it might be the first time a jury, in the US at the very least, has ruled on a game cheating case. The result has led to Bungie receiving a measly (for it, anyway) $63,210 in damages, obviously not a huge sum, but it is just the amount that Bungie will have supposedly lost due to the cheat-selling.

Important to note is that in most cases cheat sellers/ makers just give up when developers impose legal pressures on them, as going up against big companies can obviously be a huge financial risk, but as reported by Totilo at Game File, AimJunkie/ Phoenix Digital actually counter-sued Bungie, themselves alleging that the developer had accessed the person who allegedly violated Bungie's copyright James May's computer "without his authorization, [then] accessed one or more copyrighted works on his personal computer."

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