Bungie is in a bit of an odd spot currently, with the future of Marathon sitting in limbo while Destiny 2 seemingly continues to haemorrhage players on a consistent basis. That said, Destiny 2 is still trucking along, with the team at Bungie announcing that their next expansion – Renegades – will be shown off early next week.
Making the announcement via BlueSky, the team at Bungie confirmed the date for their next developer livestream, writing: “Join us next Tuesday, September 9, at 9 AM PT as our development team previews Destiny 2: Renegades and the new Ash & Iron Major Update.”
For the uninitiated Renegades will mark the second major expansion for 2025, following on from July’s Edge of Fate. Ash and Iron meanwhile serves as the mid-season refresh for The Edge of Fate expansion. The former is set to launch later this December, with the latter set to go live in the immediacy following the livestream.
As mentioned, neither Bungie nor Destiny 2 are in the greatest of spots currently, with the game teetering on the edge of having its lowest concurrent player count ever on Steam (sitting at just 20k CCU). That said, Renegades will be one of Destiny 2’s more curious expansions as it is being developed in partnership with LucasFilms, giving the expansion a heavy dose of Star Wars iconography.
Whether this will be enough to entice players to return, we will have to wait and see. That said, Bungie will need to offer more than just a Star Wars themed paint-job with the Renegades expansion if they wish to revive Destiny 2. We won’t have to wait long to find out what Bungie is planning.
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