From Bungie themselves when the game first launched Destiny is a [u]first-person shooter video game developed by Bungie and published by Activision. [/u]Released on September 9, 2014, Destiny marked Bungie's first new franchise since the Halo series. Set in a "mythic science fiction" setting, the game features a [u]massively-multiplayer "shared-world" [/u]environment with elements of role-playing games.[b] Not MMO[/b]