Destiny's next adventure is The Taken King

The Taken King - Crota's father no less - is building an army and he's coming to hunt you down, that's according to Bungie who announced the next expansion for Destiny during Sony's E3 press conference.

We're getting, among other things, new supers, new missions, and of course, plenty of new loot. PlayStation fans are also once again getting exclusive content, though the length of the exclusivity deal wasn't made clear during the show or since.

The Taken King is due to hit on September 15. This is how Bungie is describing it:

Oryx, The Taken King has arrived in our solar system, bringing with him a corrupted army to exact revenge on the Guardians who destroyed his son, Crota, and to consume our worlds. Arm yourself with newfound abilities, weapons, and gear. Defeat the Taken hordes. Make your way aboard the Dreadnaught, and face Oryx himself within his inner sanctum.

The Taken King is being talked up as "the next great adventure" in the Destiny universe, and it's include a brand new story campaign, quests, Strikes, Crucible maps, a new Raid and all the loot, armour, weapons and material you've come to expect.

Most notably we'll be getting three new "devastating" Guardian subclasses to experiment with.

Bungie describes them thus: "Warlocks will now harness the power of an electric storm, Hunters will carve a bow formed from gravitational void energy, and Titans will summon a flaming hammer that can sear their adversaries from a range or deliver a devastating melee impact."

Our new adversary, Oryx, has also been profiled:

Some scholars say that it was the vile "children" of Oryx that first crawled from the ashes, post-Collapse. His brood grew quietly, but quickly enough, spawning armies of Hive loyal to their King deep within the caverns and shadows of our worlds. Among them was Crota, the god-Knight whose offspring poisoned our Moon.

Crota and his army would have infected the Earth were it not for the efforts of Eris Morn, and the Guardians who heeded her warnings. Now, Crota is dead - body and soul extinguished by your hand.

Oryx, armed with a dark power beyond anything we've yet to face, is coming to claim his revenge.

Some people can already pre-order the The Taken King (North American games can head here, players elsewhere will have to wait for now) and included in the deal players will get Destiny, both existing expansions - The Dark Below & House of Wolves - and the new content.

There's also a special edition that comes with a steelbook edition and a variety of other trimmings, including a replica Strange Coin. The Collector's Edition is priced at $79.99, and there's also a Digital Collector's that offers shaders and exclusive Exotic items.

You can grab the Standard Edition for $59.99, or alternatively - if you're fully stocked on Destiny and only want to buy the new content - you can download the digital edition of The Taken King for $39.99 (we'll confirm official UK/EU prices as soon as we have them).

Update

UK retailer GAME has listed The Take King thus: The Collector's Edition at £79.99, while the Limited Edition is £54.99 on PS4 and Xbox One, £49.99 on PS3 and Xbox 360. The standard digital edition is going to cost £39.99.