Lately, Destiny 2 developer Bungie has been in the news because of the recently concluded alpha playtest of its upcoming 2025 extraction shooter Marathon and the flood of various community opinions about and issues with the title. Recently, though, it also came under the spotlight for a very different reason.
On Friday, a federal judge rejected a motion from Bungie to dismiss an ongoing Destiny 2 lawsuit in which the plaintiff — Matthew Kelsey Martineau, a writer also known by his pseudonym Caspar Cole — alleges that the studio plagiarized several major concepts from his unpublished sci-fi story that was viewable on his Wordpress blog during the creation of Destiny 2's Red War campaign and its Curse of Osiris expansion. The case was filed in October last year, and Bungie's request for a dismissal came just a few months later. Five months after that, it's now been denied.
