DestinyShould Be Sony’s Next Big Animated Series

The calendar month of January had more than its clean share ofnewsworthy surprise , but the goal of the calendar month certainly throw some respectable curveballs our style . In the gaming space , everyone was aghast to learn that Bungie , the original developer ofHaloand currently working on the Destiny dealership , had beenbought by Sonyfor a stupid amount of money .

In the midst of speculation and concern about both Bungie and the body politic of the manufacture , an investment call from Sony shed some luminousness on what the newspaper publisher ofbeautifully rendered Dad Gamesand Spider - Man titles saw in the Seattle studio . Put bluntly , part of the appeal for Sony at least is in boom Bungie ’s IP beyond the realm of biz , something the studio itself has been quiet building towards by hiring hoi polloi who ’ve worked with Nickelodeon and CBS , along withDerick Tsai .

Tsai ’s inclusion is important , as he ’s currently the Head of Development for Destiny ’s transmedia efforts , and previously directed animated short celluloid over at Riot Games , which of late free thesmash hit serial publication Arcane . tie in the superman and you could see that Bungie wants Destiny to branch out , which has n’t really gotten a chance to take place yet . When it was still with Activision , Destiny encounter some comic volume , and there were some funlive action commercials . But no real attempt has been made to prove and capture the electric potential of Bungie ’s world , even as middling much any video game could be up for version at a present moment ’s notice .

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Even without prescribed substantiation at the second , it ’s clear that Bungie wants to have something to do with liveliness , whether that ’s an literal idiot box serial or film , or just trailer for future expansions Lightfall and The Final Shape . Either way , it feels like the right clock time for such a thing to happen ; Destiny 2 has establish its narration stride since adopting the seasonal storytelling formatting with 2018 ’s Forsaken , and Witch Queen has hada strong buildupahead of its February 22 release . The serial has come a long manner since itsesoteric approach to worldbuildingfor the first biz , with each location and enlargement having its own fairly trenchant tone and style from the rest . Since Destiny 2 first released , it ’s been unforced to get a wad weirder and deep with its floor , and it ’d be exciting to see more slices of the science fantasy universe beyond what the player is appropriate to explore in the circumscribed capacitance of Destiny ’s theoretical account as a co - working shooter .

On its own , the intelligence would be fascinating , but what makes such a affair truly exciting is Sony helping make Bungie ’s dreams a world . Its live action whole kit can be all over the position , but liveliness - wise , Sony ’s had a solid track record over the years : out of doors of Spider - Verse and The Mitchells v. the Machines , there ’s been the wildly successful Hotel Transylvania film and muddy with a Chance of Meatballs . Even if some of its motion picture are kind of git , Sony ’s animation teams are at least render and experimenting within the sensitive all the time .

Whatever Destiny ’s animated experiment ends up becoming , it ’ll almost sure as shooting be worth paying attention to . As is , gamers are primed to receive a deluge ofadaptationsandnew spinson video game they either have sex or havesome awareness of , and the pieces are in place for Bungie ’s shooter - MMO to bring something different , if not fun , to the conversation . But it ’s equally as possible that the studio ’s aspiration exceeds its reach , something we wo n’t lie with until this takes its net shape .

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