Casey Sanders —

Video games have become a critical part of media in United States culture since the Atari 2600 was released in the early 80’s. Today, video games are on a whole different level than how they began. Today the gaming front is lead by Sony and Microsoft, they are constantly in a battle to see who can make the best system in order to leave the other in the dust. Microsoft has had great success with the Xbox series, and Sony has had its success with the Playstation series. No matter how competitive the companies are they would be nothing without games.

The leaders in the gaming front have always been the Halo series by Bungie, and the Call of Duty franchise by Activision. Now there is something interesting happening in the gaming world, where two rival gaming companies in Bungie and Activision are joining forces to make the ultimate game. The game, Destiny, has been 10 years in the making and is reported by Bungie to have a $500 million budget, which is the biggest in all of gaming and movies. Destiny is offered on household-name consoles and is said to be the next big name in gaming because of its cutting edge gameplay and top notch graphics.

Destiny will be releasing on Tuesday September 9, 2014 at midnight on a special release at Gamestop. The game is Gamestop’s most pre-ordered new IP ever by Gamescon. This is also supported by the fact that four million gamers participated in the beta program for Destiny. Gamers have reached the sales cap on the Limited and Ghost Editions of the game and they can no longer pre-order those editions due to the lack of supply. Destiny may possibly be one of the most important games in history, due to the fact that it is the first big game of the new generation gaming systems that is not platform exclusive.