It got off to a bit of a shaky start, but Bungie’s enormous multiplayer shooter Destiny amassed a devoted group of hardcore players, many of whom – hundred of hours later – are still not done with the game.
Those people (as well fans who dropped off a while ago) will be very happy to learn that an – allegedly leaked - poster appears to confirm that the much-anticipated sequel will launch in September this year.
The poster in question was leaked by an Italian retailer, but you don’t need to be a fluent bilingual to make out the “8 September” written at the top. The image also mentions a beta starting in June, which various social media reports claim will come to PS4 first (no great surprise there then).
Again, there’s been no official announcement of a release date from Bungie as of yet, but Kotaku are predicting that there will be later today.
We’ve been told very little about Destiny 2 so far, but it sounds as though the planets in the game will be more feature-rich than those in the original, with towns, settlements and traditional RPG quests.
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Matt Tate is a freelance journalist and contributor at for Shortlist. Formerly Stuff Magazine’s news editor and based in the UK, he’s been writing about consumer tech for around eight years, with a particular focus on gaming.
For his sins, Matt is a huge Tottenham Hotspur fan and unfortunately spends a lot of his time scanning his published work for Spurs-related digs that may have been slyly inserted by editors. Otherwise, he’s often buying Lego sets he can no longer accommodate and trying to perfect his carbonara recipe. He can be found tweeting (mostly about football and video games) at @MattWTate.