Saniya Ahmed
Saniya Ahmed
Saniya Ahmed is an editor at Fanbyte covering Destiny 2 news, guides, and feature stories. She’s a long-time Destiny player who loves the game for its lore and is a Hunter main. Her bylines include GameSpot, IGN, WIRED, Game Informer, and more.
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In Season of the Deep, Drifter became a regular visitor at the HELM, bringing his blue Juice of Seven bottle along. While several characters provide Sloane and Ahsa support, unexpectedly, Drifter stan...
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As a kid, I watched my older brother play The Sands of Time with fascination. I heard familiar names and saw recognizable architecture. Its historic setting reminded me of oral stories about...
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If you ever wanted a cute emblem of a little fish buddy swimming in a fishing pond in Destiny 2, you can get it in Season of the Deep. A seasonal Triumph called Exotic Angler became available...
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Completing the Parting the Veil quest — an extension of Destiny 2: Lightfall‘s story made available in Season of the Deep — unlocks the Veil Containment lore mission ...
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Destiny 2 servers are riddled with error codes, and the TWID finally addresses game stability issues. With increasing difficulty logging in, emergency maintenance, and recurrent contacting
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A video titled “Destiny 2 has become a Microtransaction Hell” from Youtuber Aztecross has the community talking about the state of Destiny 2 — garnering over...
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A cutscene showing the Witness’s origin is a significant moment in Destiny 2′s story. Although the lore heavy video garnered praise from the Destiny community, it has also spark...
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Season of the Deep Week 5 shares one of the most important cutscenes in Destiny 2‘s story, which has come a long way from simply being about Light versus Darkness. The introduction of Py...
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The Tower Gunsmith Banshee-44 has an array of weapons players can purchase with Legendary Shards and Glimmer. In Week 5 of Destiny 2‘s Season of the Deep, Banshee is selling the Harsh La...
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Xur mysterious pops up across the solar system every weekend in Destiny 2 to bring a trove of Exotic and Legendary gear for Guardians to purchase. This week, Xur is selling a god roll Dispari...
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If you’re wondering why you can’t access some of Destiny 2‘s largest subreddits, it’s a protest. Thousands of popular subreddits have gone private, protesting the new and unfavorable changes...
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In a lengthy Q&A style discussion of upcoming changes in Destiny 2, the TWID talked about Exotic and kinetic weapon changes. Bungie answered questions from the Destiny 2...
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In this week’s news post, Bungie responded to the Destiny 2 community about the game’s sandbox, and one of those questions was about the current state of hand cannons.
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In the This Week in Destiny news post, Bungie answered several sandbox questions from the Destiny 2 community. The Strand subclass was one of the many subjects, specifically the new...
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Inclusion and diversity are integral to all game communities, and Bungie makes its allyship with LGBTQIA+ people of the Destiny 2 community loud and clear in its latest news post.
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Ghosts of the Deep is Destiny 2‘s newest dungeon, launching alongside Season of the Deep. Players quickly found a way to cheese the final boss fight, but Bungie patched it in the 7.1.0.2 upda...
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First appearing in Destiny 2: Forsaken‘s Last Wish raid, Techeun Force is now Season of the Deep’s new god roll.
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So, this week we have the first TWID, This Week in Destiny — Bungie’s rebrand of its TWAB weekly news post after its Marathon game announcement (If you haven’t yet, grab your free
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Along with new activities in Season of the Deep, players can chase after the Last Wish raid’s Deepsight weapons in Destiny 2, and now is a good time to do it. It takes five Deepsight ext...