Bungie Hit With Layoffs as Destiny 2 Winds Down

Bungie is cutting staff for the fourth time since Sony's $3.6B acquisition in 2022, this time as Destiny 2 winds toward an effective sunset — the June 9 update is being framed as the final major content drop, with no Destiny 3 greenlit and survivors funneled to the struggling Marathon. It ends one of the most ambitious live-service experiments of the last decade not with a finale but with a quiet wind-down. What stings is that Bungie was supposed to be Sony's live-service center of gravity — the studio Sony paid a premium for specifically to teach the rest of the portfolio how to ship and operate a long-running shooter. Instead it's now a cautionary tale about buying a studio for its expertise and then squeezing it until the expertise leaves.