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Luke Smith addressed player feedback on an official Bungie podcast published today. Bungie released a new episode of its official  podcast  shortly after today's  big blog post  went live, and on it marketing director Eric Osborne, game director Luke Smith, and project lead Mark Noseworthy discussed the studio's  commitment to getting  Destiny 2  on the right track. Like the blog post, the podcast is frank about the current state of Destiny 2, the lack of long-term appeal for "hobbyist" players who want to spend an enormous amount of time in the game, and Bungie's missteps in terms of how it has communicated with playerbase. The developers said that, as an entry point for new players, they saw Destiny 2 in part as an opportunity to address criticisms that the original Destiny was too demanding, but in the end had "erred on the side of the casual experiences." Ultimately that led to the current situation, in which more committed players are ...

It's time to play the most boring video game of all time, in VR. Originally part of the Penn & Teller's Smoke and Mirrors mini-game pack (a mini-game pack, it should be added, which never commercially released), Desert Bus is among the most boring games of all time. As the name implies, you're on a bus, driving through the desert, from Arizona to Nevada.  And that's all.  The banality of the project is exactly what makes it special though, and over the years its established a cult following and even the Desert Bus For Hope charity initiative. Now the experience can be had in VR, and better still, it can be had in VR for free on both Vive and Oculus Rift. As the image above suggests, it's a full VR remake. Among the major additions is the new multiplayer functionality, which allows you to make the soul-crushingly meaningless trip with three other friends in VR. There's a radio in the truck too, which should take the edge off a bit, and you...