With ‘Destiny 2’ Gone, No ‘Destiny 3’ Is Coming

InnovationGamingWith ‘Destiny 2’ Gone, No ‘Destiny 3’ Is ComingByPaul Tassi,Senior Contributor.Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. News and opinion about video games, television, movies and the internet.Follow AuthorMay 22, 2026, 09:11am EDT--:-- / --:--This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more.This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more.Destiny 2BungieDestiny 2 players were stunned yesterday when Bungie said it was ending development on the game after a final June update. While longer-term, this may have always been coming, so far as the player base knew, at least two more expansions were on the way alongside another year of content. Not so.In Bungie’s goodbye message, they seemed to hint that the Destiny brand would live on in some form, with players believing it was a tease that Destiny 3 is in development and would be announced at some point to help ease this loss.That, unfortunately, is not the case. And things are worse for Bungie than most might even understand.From my own reporting, a recent Jason Schreier piece (whose details I can now confirm) and some amount of common sense, here’s what we know:Destiny 3 is not in production, and has not even been greenlit as something to start down the road. It has obviously been pitched many times over, even before The Final Shape, but Sony did not want to spend the money. That has apparently not changed.Nothing else has been officially greenlit and is in development yet, even among other non-sequel Destiny ideas Bungie has, where they do want to keep the IP alive.Part of the decision to axe Destiny 2 now was to move more resources over to Marathon, now entering its second season.Destiny 2BungieHowever, Bungie, as a roughly 800-person company, is not going to have that many people working on an extraction shooter, and without a clear new project ahead like a Destiny 3, there are going to be “significant” layoffs, according to Schreier’s report.The idea of a Destiny 3...