Sony will give PlayStation 4 owners a sneak preview of Destiny, the highly anticipated video game from Bungie, the Seattle-area development studio that was the original developer of the blockbuster Halo franchise for Xbox.
A limited alpha of Destiny will be available on PS4 starting this Thursday through the weekend, Sony announced this evening as part of its event at the E3 game convention. PS4 owners can sign up for the alpha here.
A beta of the game is slated for release on July 17 on PlayStation 3 and 4.
The finished game will be officially released in September for PlayStation 3 and 4, plus the Xbox One and Xbox 360. However, Sony is touting the early preview as a none-too-subtle poke in the eye at Microsoft, where Bungie was previously an in-house development studio before spinning off as an independent company.
“Destiny isn’t just first on PlayStation, it’s better,” said Andrew House, Sony Computer Entertainment CEO, after a preview of Destiny kicked off the Sony E3 event in Los Angeles this evening.
Microsoft earlier today announced plans to release a remastered compilation of Halo 1-4 for the Xbox One later this year, including early access to the Halo 5 multiplayer beta.
Sony’s E3 press conference is ongoing, and the live stream is available here. Here’s the new E3 trailer for Destiny.
