Peter Dinklage dropped from Destiny - here's why

Destiny is getting a new expansion pack in The Taken King and part of its remit is to address the frankly ridiculous lack of significant story in the game to date. And that decision has some ramifications for a certain voice actor.

Back when the game launched in September 2014, people were all kinds of excited about the fact that Game of Thrones star Peter Dinklage was providing the voice of a critical character called Ghost. This was a robotic companion who helped you with all sorts of things but people criticised the limp vocal performance (we thought it was ok) and the lack of story content in the game kind of made the character feel extraneous.

Developers Bungie are out to address some of those issues with the upcoming third expansion pack, The Taken King - due on the 15th of September. It brings a host of new areas, raids, missions, multiplayer, weapons and more, as well as a focus on story which we haven't seen to date. There will be many more cut scenes and the character of Ghost will be given a more central role, accompanying the player and feeding them information about the world.