Bungie has announced an all-new event for its shared-world shooter, Destiny, known as Crimson Days.
The event will commence on February 9 and run for approximately one week, and takes the form of a new 2v2 Crucible mode titled Crimson Doubles that “features a special twist, born of new gameplay and mechanics that only battle-tested star-crossed lovers will appreciate.”
No further details are available at this point, although those who have been keeping up with our Destiny coverage as of late will twig that this is the same mode that was leaked earlier in the week via NeoGAF.
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Destiny was released in 2014 on PlayStation 4, PlayStation 3, Xbox One, and Xbox 360. The game was met with polarizing reviews at launch, although proved a massive commercial success for publisher Activision. The game received two expansions, The Dark Below and House of Wolves, in December 2014 and May 2015, respectively, with Bungie rolling out The Taken King in September this year—the game’s largest expansion to date.
While not selling as well as the base game, The Taken King still proved a big success, and was met with far more positive reviews than the vanilla version of Destiny. The DLC topped the U.K. All Format Charts upon release and sold through the majority of physical copies on the PS4. Recently, Bungie has released a number of event-based additions for its shared-world shooter, including the Sparrow Racing League, which runs for three weeks.
Looking ahead to the future, the former Halo developer has seemingly ruled out the possibility of major expansions, and instead will flesh out the Destiny experience with more events. However, it has said that one major update will arrive by spring 2016, and will be the largest since The Taken King’s release.
Read our full review of Destiny based on the launch version.