{"id":79472,"date":"2026-05-21T20:05:27","date_gmt":"2026-05-22T00:05:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=79472"},"modified":"2026-05-21T21:36:35","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T01:36:35","slug":"bungie-is-reportedly-planning-significant-layoffs-destiny-3-not-in-the-works","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=79472","title":{"rendered":"Bungie Is Reportedly Planning ‘Significant’ Layoffs, Destiny 3 Not in the Works"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A new report from Bloomberg<\/a> claims that Bungie will suffer “significant” layoffs in the near future and that Destiny 3<\/a> is not actively in the works. This comes hours after Bungie confirmed that it would be winding down support for Destiny 2<\/a> after its next update, which is set to release in June. <\/p>\n

Some feared this was a bad sign for Bungie’s future<\/a>, as Destiny 2 is its most popular active game. According to Bloomberg, Bungie leadership was evaluating ways to make Destiny 2 more accessible to new players, but ultimately decided to embrace Marathon and shifted developers and resources to the extraction shooter.<\/p>\n

Bungie reportedly plans to continue pitching ideas in the Destiny universe, but there’s no guarantee that they will be greenlit for full production due to a challenging market and econmic concerns. Currently, Bungie doesn’t have another game lined up and there are no plans to enter development on Destiny 3 at this time. As of right now, Marathon will remain the focus for Bungie, with the studio hoping to increase player counts following a disappointing launch.<\/p>\n

Bungie recently outlined its plans for the future of Marathon<\/a>, confirming that it will be adding new PvE content that will<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A new report from Bloomberg claims that Bungie will suffer “significant” layoffs in the near future and that Destiny 3 is not actively in the works. This comes hours after Bungie confirmed that it would be winding down support for Destiny 2 after its next update, which is set to release in June. Some feared…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":194,"featured_media":79474,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-external","brand-ign"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79472"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/194"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=79472"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79472\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79476,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79472\/revisions\/79476"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/79474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=79472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=79472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=79472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}