In the Bungie Mail Sack this week, Deej addresses the burning question: Is there bacon in Destiny?

I can neither confirm nor deny if swine survived the collapse of the Golden Age. Humanity’s luxury for consuming pork is a mystery that you will have to unlock as a player of the game.

That and many other deep and philosophical questions are answered in the Mail Sack.

Umbra Software, makers of Umbra 3, have put up a blog post about how their middleware is being used for world creation and rendering in Bungie's Destiny. They'll be doing a presentation on it at GDC this year as well.

Bungie's latest Community Focus article is on Ready Up Live. They've got a YouTube channel with some good Destiny videos in it, check it out.

Nope, not doing one.

Bungie's latest Mail Sack is up. Here's a highlight:

MastaSin In Destiny, can we play as the aliens or are we locked to the human race? And if we are, why are we locked to the human race? What's the reason?

Deej Not all of the aliens in Destiny are evil, just like not all humans are good. We’ve barely scratched the surface on the character and customization options you’ll have access to in Destiny, but we’re not going to dig in any deeper today.

I believe one of the early IGN stories seemed to indicate that players would only be humans, but this seems to cast a bit of doubt.

Claude Errera has announced that DBO is now building their Destiny Video Archive. Right now what's there are the two official vids, with more stuff to come.

This week's Community Focus feature over at Bungie is on the Destiny SubReddit. It's dangerous to go alone, take this.

Kapowaz over in the DBO forum summarized the feature on Destiny from Edge Magazine. It seems the game will feature named weapon drops, like Borderlands, as well as weapon models generated procedurally from ingredients, perhaps like the weapon mod system from Mass Effect.

The article seems to soft pedal the possibility for solo play, kapowaz says, even though it has been recently confirmed that players will not be forced to play coop if they don't want to.

Dean Takahashi over at VentureBeat has posted a walkthrough essay and some photos of Bungie's studio where Destiny is now being made. Not a lot of new material, but until Bungie speaks at GDC there might not be too much more.

The Destiny FAQ has been updated with information revealed by Deej, Urk and others during the past couple of editions of the Bungie Mail Sack.

David Candland of Bungie reminds all the fans via Twitter that there's only one place to go if you want to beta test Destiny, and it's here:

http://www.bungie.net/en-us/View/bungie/userresearch/index

Some unofficial sites have been purporting to offer beta access. I won't link to them, but Candland says using them will only "end in heartbreak".