- Overwatch® World of Warcraft®. StarCraft®: Remastered. Blizzard® Arcade Collection. Crash Bandicoot™ 4: It’s About Time. Call of Duty®: Black Ops Cold War. Call of Duty®: Warzone™.
- “Unfortunately, Destiny will no longer be available on Blizzard’s Battle.net after October 1,” Bungie confirms in the announcement. You will get a one-time transfer of all owned content to Steam.
- If you plan to play Destiny 2 on PC, create your Blizzard account on battle.net and then follow the exact steps as above on Bungie.net. Hopefully Bungie will figure out a solution for players who lost their characters, but you can avoid becoming one of those players by following the exact steps above.
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Today, Activision announced that it is merging Vicarious Visions with Blizzard Entertainment. Vicarious, a studio that had found a niche creating superb remake compilations like Crash Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogy and Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 1+2, will no longer work on its projects. Instead, it will be a support studio dedicated to helping Blizzard.
This sucks.
Vicarious Visions was doing great work these past few years. After Skylanders fizzled (along with the entire toys-to-life trend that it helped to popularize), Vicarious Visions made some of the best remakes of all time with 2017’s Crash Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogy. That package brought the whole Crash franchise back into relevance, leading up to last year’s release of Crash Bandicoot 4: It’s About Time (which fellow Skylanders developer Toys for Bob made).
The studio then flexed again with last year’s Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 1+2, one of my favorite games of 2020. Both remake compilations have sold millions of dollars. It was fun to speculate which classic series Vicarious Visions would revive next.
Well, not anymore.
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Above: Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 1+2 was a beautiful remake effort.
Vicarious position
It would be one thing if Activsion was merging Vicarious Visions with Blizzard so that the former could work on remakes of classic Blizzard games. Blizzard has proven itself unsuited to this task, releasing Warcraft III: Reforged around this time last year. This muddled, buggy, and ugly new take on the classic real-time strategy game was — and still is — a disaster.
Reforged’s failure is a big part of why Activision felt pressured to sacrifice one of its best studios to give Blizzard aid. Reforged was a flop, but at least it was a relatively inconsequential project for Activision. It had no major recurrent revenue streams. But Blizzard is working on huge projects, like Diablo IV and Overwatch 2, that will be important for Activision’s bottom line for years. It can’t afford for these games to be anything but giant hits.
So that’s what Vicarious Visions will be doing. The studio and its team of 200 will no longer be the lead for any games. Instead, it will support existing Blizzard projects, which could also include ongoing games like World of Warcraft and Hearthstone.
Helping hand
Vicarious Visions has done this sort of support work before, helping Bungie with development on Destiny 2 back when Activision had a publishing deal with that studio. But it’s sad to know that Vicarious Visions will no longer be working on its own projects.
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This move does have a few bright spots. This could mean Overwatch 2 and Diablo IV, which may be in rough shape if Activision took this drastic step, will launch as great games thanks to all of this new support. Vicarious Visions studio head Jen Oneal has been promoted to Blizzard executive vice president of development. She may be able to bring some new leadership that can help Blizzard become a premier and beloved developer again.
But this whole thing feels like a bummer. Vicarious Visions did amazing work these past few years and created some great games. Now, the studio will be more of invisible hand, and I have to wonder if I’m ever going to get that Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 3 remake that I crave.
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Many were waiting for this and finally, their expectations were justified! Meet Destiny 2 on a PC and not just on a PC and it comes out on the platform of Blizzard.app. Destiny 2 is very popular at Blizzard and it was the main reason why they agreed to contribute to the speedy release of this, no doubt, wonderful game. With the help of Blizzard Destiny 2 will be able to join their global network, which will allow Bungle to concentrate all efforts and resources on the development of the game itself. Destiny 2 supports full synchronization with all social applications of Blizzard.
Destiny 2 on Blizzard.app
The company Blizzard has a stable network infrastructure, and that’s why they were chosen. If it were Blizzard won’t helped then Bungle would have to develop its own network client for the release of this wonderful franchise on a PC. But this does not mean that in the near future on the platform Blizzard will start to appear new games. The company has no short-term or long-term plans to support third-party games on this platform.
Players will enjoy the exciting gameplay, the new “Play with the Guide” mode, four different planets with completely different landscapes that can be traveled. It does not matter whether you played in the first part, anyone can find a job for their liking. The story campaign can be performed both with friends and alone, and with the help of “Play with the Guide” it will be easier for players to go through complex tasks while teaming up.
The release of the Destiny 2 on the PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC will be held in September this year. For the PS4 console, temporary exclusive content will also be available.
Available information about Destiny 2
Very soon MMOFPS Destiny 2 comes out and it is known that at least two additions are planned for the game. Now, thanks to the arts posted on the game page in the Xbox store, players who are familiar with the storyline of the game learned that they can be devoted to two important characters of the universe – Osiris, and Rasputin.
- Banner Osiris – black eye on the yellow cloth is a symbol of a mysterious character who conducts a multiplayer tournament Trials of Osiris. In addition, he is a powerful Warlock who lives on Mercury. And although he never appeared himself in the game, but there are a lot of details about him.
- The second symbol belongs to Rasputin. Rasputin is one of the Warmind AI that was designed to protect humanity and Earth from the forces of darkness. Several missions were dedicated to him during the storyline of the original game, and there were scattered clues that defensive AI had become something different.
Thanks to the leak to the network of a short FAQ for the directors of the GameStop stores, we have new information about MMOFPS Destiny 2. If this document is real, we are waiting for a lot of new details, but since no one can guarantee the truthfulness of the information, we ask to view the information below as “rumors”. New information from the document:
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- Pre-order Destiny 2 will open up early access to the open game test, which will be available to all and will run on all platforms. For the GameStop network, there will be a separate gift: everyone who pre-ordered the Limited Edition will receive a unique figure.
- Destiny 2 will be a completely separate game and will not require players to have an original game or any other content, knowledge of the plot and the ability to play in Destiny. Perhaps this means that according to the plot of the sequel we will be told about the events of the first game.
- In Destiny 2, you can transfer characters from Destiny that reached level 20 and have completed mission Black Garden. Only the appearance settings of the character will be transferred, the other: currency, equipment, achievement, progress, will not be transferred – they will remain available in Destiny 1. Additionally, developers plan to add the insignia for the veterans of the original game to honor their achievements.
- The season pass will include two large additions, the first will be available in winter 2017, the second – in the spring of 2018. Both additions will add to the game new story assignments, cooperative activities, competitive multiplayer, as well as a large number of new weapons, armor, and equipment.
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