Fresh off its dalliance with Mass Effect, Destiny 2 is getting a Ghostbusters collaboration – which’ll seemingly mostly manifest in the form of premium cosmetics – starting next Tuesday, 19th March.
Developer Bungie revealed the incoming “Destiny 2 x Ghostbusters” collaboration on social media, with a post proclaiming, “There’s something strange in our neighbourhood…”.
An accompanying image highlighted three Ghostbusters collaboration cosmetics, including a Ghost skin resembling iconic series nuisance Slimer (a literal ghost), alongside a slightly demonic – but not especially Ghostbusters-y) Sparrow sin, and an Echo-1 that’ll presumably be skin for Destiny 2’s recently introduced hoverboards.
Bungie has offered any further details beyond the collaboration’s 19th March start date – just a few days ahead of new Ghostbuster movie Frozen Empire – but the assumption is the newly cosmetics will be premium additions Destiny 2’s Eververse store.
Destiny 2’s Ghostbuster collaboration will be followed by a till mysterious “two-month content update available to everyone” in April called Destiny 2: Into the Light, and three more PVP maps in May. June will then bring Destiny 2’s delayed The Final Shape expansion, serving as the culmination of the game’s 10-year story arc.
All this follows a tough 2023 for Bungie, which laid off 100 employees in November amid reports of disappointing pre-orders for The Final Shape and Destiny revenue being 45 percent below the studio’s projections due to a “sharp drop” in the popularity of Destiny 2. Bungie’s Marathon reimagining has also reportedly been delayed, and is now set to arrive in 2025.
