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I don’t understand Destiny’s success. Or rather, I don’t understand the ferocity of its fans. Perhaps this is simply the curmudgeon in me, the gamer that never quite understood or liked the things that make massively multiplayer online games what they are today.

What did you think of the Dreadnaught? At first I was a little annoyed that I couldn’t use my sparrow in this new zone, but since the action is more compact in these areas I ultimately didn’t really feel like I needed it.

Bungie opened its doors to us a few weeks back to show off what the team has been busy working on in recent months, and gave us the chance to play not just a few select missions, but the full scope of what’s on offer in The Taken King.

Yesterday, as part of Game Informer’s month-long trickle of Destiny news ahead of the release of The Taken King, they released a video that focused on some of the changes coming to storytelling in the expansion. The theme of the video is “a hundred little things

PlayStation and Xbox owners can now obtain the Husk of the Pit once again, find a changed rotation of PVP maps, and get ready for the Nepal Aid rewards and other upcoming changes.

Gamers have a magical gift to discover things that designers never intended them to. In a game that’s always evolving and changing like Destiny, there are lots of opportunities for exploitation. Some, like the now canonical Loot Cave, make life easier by allowing us to skip the grind, but others are just for laughs.

Love it or hate it, the Gjallarhorn has become one of the central weapons of Destiny, an essential piece of every Guardian’s arsenal or the golden goose that all players seek. As such, Bungie has been hard at work figuring out just how to design Gjallarhorn‘s competitor and (hopefully) its successor.

For the Taken King, Destiny is crafting a suite of new exotic weapons for players to fawn over and collect. However, not all of these will be acquired randomly; some truly powerful tools will require work to unlock.

Each week, Xur turns up wherever he feels like it in Destiny, if he feels like it at all. But when he does show up, it's likely he's going to have some pretty nice items for sale, as long as you can find him. Every week, Destiny players flock to him to throw their strange coins at him to get the latest exotic gear. Destiny power leveling make you get it.

Destiny developer Bungie is promising that The Taken King will do a better job telling a story, and that's the focus of the prologue cinematic for the expansion.

Look, I have no idea how many of these Destiny: The Taken King gamescom screenshots are new. All I know is it took over two hours to download them, so please humor me and have a look at them.

"Destiny: The Taken King," coming September 15, promises to be bigger than the previous two expansions combined. And in many ways, it's an entirely new game.