Bungie is working on a “series of unknown projects” with Sony’s assistance.
According to Bungie senior lead designer Tom Farnsworth, who announced the news on January 4 through his personal Twitter account. According to the senior Bungie developer, the company is now working on a few undisclosed projects, all of which have some level of Sony backing.
Farnsworth, understandably, refrains from identifying or characterising these initiatives in any detail. Farnsworth’s latest comments aren’t even the first time we’ve heard about Bungie deviating from Destiny 2 to focus on other ongoing projects in the last year.
This Shield is what 11 years at Bungie looks like. Each medal represents one of the 25+ Destiny releases we’ve shipped to millions of players. During that time we completely changed how we develop games and do business, moving from strictly boxed products to live service games. pic.twitter.com/XVab4UJmS1
— Tom Farnsworth (@tomfromtheweb) January 4, 2023
A Bungie job offering in April 2022 indicated that the firm was working on a new third-person action game. Later that month, another job post said that the firm was hard at work on a mobile game engine, implying some sort of entry into the mobile gaming sector.
A few months later, in October 2022, a rumour stated Bungie was bringing back the classic shooter Marathon as their first post-Destiny game for a fresh audience. According to the rumour, which was subsequently confirmed by another writer, the new shooter will play similarly to Escape From Tarkov, with teams of gamers battling for treasure as well as each other.
This is undoubtedly a natural progression for Bungie given that the firm has expertise in creating PvPvE experiences in Destiny 2 with modes like Gambit. Given Sony’s acquisition of Bungie last year, it’s not surprising that all three of these undisclosed projects may get back from the publisher.
