For starters, a company called Podophobia Entertainment that set up by Harold Ryan and Martin O’Donnell filed a trademark for something called Destiny in 2009, and renewed it in March this year. The listing describes it as “computer game software downloadable from a global computer network,” with a corresponding logo. The same design was seen on a T-shirt worn by a Bungie employee during a recent Penny Arcade video.
Earlier this year, a contractor claimed that Bungie’s new game was a space-based MMO called “Destiny”, while during GDC Bungie lead network engineer David Aldridge stated at a panel session that the developer’s next title is a “massively multiplayer action game.” Bungie later called his statement a “joke”.
