Destiny's Next Expansion Leaked, "The Taken King" Emerges

We’re only a few weeks into Destiny’s acclaimed House of Wolves expansion, which by all accounts, is just the thing Destiny needed to finally live up to its pre-release hype, and yet Bungie has already “announced” the next Destiny Expansion, the Taken King.

When I say announced, I don’t mean officially: rather, a large marketing sheet was leaked to the fine folks at Kotaku, so Bungie had very little to do with the actual reveal. But because of it’s unofficial nature, we’re left with very little information about this upcoming patch outside a few keynotes listed out on the marketing sheet.

This expansion, which is slated to cost 40 bucks, is due for release September 15th of this year and has just about all the content you’ve come to expect from a Destiny add-on:new Strikes, new PvP Maps, new weapons, and of course (although it was oddly missing from House of Wolves) a new raid—this time your terrible foe is Oryx, who is rather miffed that you killed his son, Crota, in the first expansion pack for the game.

But perhaps most exciting is the addition of new SubClasses, or ways for you to further customize and power up on of the game’s three base classes—plus the addition of new Super Moves for each one, which are: an electrical storm for Warlocks (arc); a gravity bow for Hunters (void); and a flaming hammer for Titans (solar). Sounds pretty hardcore.

So, September is still a ways away, so it’s anyone’s guess if Bungie decides to make things official now that the cat's out of the bag. There’s a lot of goodwill floating around Destiny since House of Wolves, which fixed a lot of the most broken features of Destiny and breathed new life into the game, so will the Taken King finally be able to lift it from a good game to the World-Changing Sci-Fi adventure promised to us by Bungie at the offset of Destiny’s reveal? For the sake of FPS gamers everywhere, I sincerely wish the answer is yes.