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Destiny 2's Weekly Dev Updates Are Shutting Down for Good

Bungie has confirmed that TWIDs, This Week in Destiny posts, are coming to an end, closing the book on one of the longest-running community communication traditions in live-service gaming.

Alex

Alex

June 11, 2026

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Destiny 2's Weekly Dev Updates Are Shutting Down for Good — GamerScout

It was always going to happen, but that doesn't make it sting any less. Bungie has officially confirmed that TWID posts, This Week in Destiny, the studio's long-running weekly blog updates, are done. Given that Destiny 2 itself has been winding down its live update cycle, this isn't exactly a plot twist. But there's something genuinely melancholy about seeing it stated outright. These posts were a ritual for a huge chunk of the playerbase, the kind of thing you'd skim over your morning coffee to find out what was getting tweaked, buffed, vaulted, or quietly broken.

TWIDs ran for years and covered everything from sandbox patch notes to lore teases to the occasional heartfelt community shoutout. They weren't always popular, plenty of them landed with a thud when the news inside was bad, but they were consistent, and that consistency meant something. Losing them is less about any single post and more about what they represented: an active, ongoing conversation between Bungie and its players. With that channel going quiet, it's one more signal that Destiny 2 as a living, breathing service is genuinely in its final chapter. Rough timing for players still hanging around, but at least they got the honesty.

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Alex

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