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YesterdayFri, 31st May 2024
News Helldivers 2 Major Order Directs Players to Destroy Supercolony-Infested Planet of Meridia
Exterminatus
Helldivers 2 players have been issued a new Major Order, focusing the community's ongoing Galactic War efforts in a specific place, towards a particular end. However, this time, the Meridia Superhive situation will require a more permanent solution, with the planet slated for permanent destruction. Super Earth has decreed that the time...
Wednesday29th May 2024
News Helldivers 2 Director: Live Service Is Good for Gaming, But Only If It's 'Done Right'
Hell yeah?
'Live service' has become something of a dirty term over the years, but as is often the case, there are both good and bad examples of the model — it's just that we all tend to focus on the negatives. But Helldivers 2 director Johan Pilestedt would rather talk about the positives — and that's exactly what he did at the recent Nordic...
Friday24th May 2024
News Helldivers 2 Players Teased with Twin-Linked Autocannon EXO-49 Emancipator Exosuit
Sweet Liberty
Helldivers 2 players have a new Major Order, which, if successful, will result in the deployment of the EXO-49 Emancipator Exosuit, something we've been anticipating since at least March when we first got our grainy glimpse of the machi
Thursday23rd May 2024
News Helldivers 2 Dev Says It's Seen 'Horrifying' Toxicity from Some of the Community
"More voices being added to the choir does add complexity"
Helldivers 2 players are supposed to work together for Super Earth's glory, but as is often the case when dealing with such a massive audience, some fringe elements of the community are going overboard. Former Arrowhead CEO and now Chief Creative Officer Johan Pilestedt says that the studio...
Wednesday22nd May 2024
News New Helldivers 2 CEO Hired So Former Lead Can Focus on Game Development
Shams Jorjani takes the lead
Helldivers 2 developer Arrowhead Studios has revealed the hiring of a new CEO in Shams Jorjani so the former lead Johan Pilestedt — who you've probably seen on Twitter recently — can focus his efforts on game creation again. After the overwhelming success of the PS5, PC title, which currently sits on more than 12...
Tuesday21st May 2024
News Helldivers 2 Updates Set to Slow Down as Dev Shares Concern Over Patch Quality
Deep divers
Helldivers 2 has obviously been a huge hit for both Sony and developer Arrowhead Studios, but without regular updates, any ongoing game will struggle to maintain a large audience in the current live service landscape. Fortunately, most would agree that the team's been doing a great job when it comes to keeping Helldivers 2 ticking —...
News Helldivers 2 Players Embrace Eagle Sweat, the Perfume of Heroes
Eau de Liberté
Helldivers 2 players, in between liberally applying Freedom and Democracy to the bugs and bots, respectively, have been known to engage in some light meme-crafting, with developer Arrowhead often getting in on the game. One such case is that of Eagle Sweat, the most patriotic perfume in existence, which may or may not be coming to...
Friday17th May 2024
News Players Fail Helldivers 2 Major Order, 'The Second Galactic War' Begins
"New recruits are being trained to bolster the ranks of SEAF"
In another potentially catastrophic turn in the ongoing Helldivers 2 Galactic War effort, players have failed to scrap 2 billion Automatons mandated by the latest Major Order, and the MD-17 Anti-Tank Mines stratagem has been snatched from their grasp once again. Worse, Super Earth High...
Tuesday14th May 2024
News Helldivers 2 on PS5, PC Is Sony's Fastest Selling Game of All Time
Did you do your part?
This author’s got to put his hands up: there are Slack chat records of me saying Helldivers 2 would be a total and utter sales flop. As it happens, the release has now cemented itself as Sony’s fastest selling first-party title of all time, netting 12 million units in 12 weeks across PS5 and PC, accurate as of 5th May. That...
Monday13th May 2024
News Fans Positively Review Bomb Hi-Fi Rush in Wake of Xbox’s Closure of Tango Gameworks
Good?
In a development you don't see every day, following the closure of Hi-Fi Rush developer Tango Gameworks, swarms of fans have expressed their outrage by positively review bombing the game on Steam. This reverse review bombing campaign has resulted in several thousand Positive new reviews rising to the top since the news of Bethesda's...
News Helldivers 2 Players Given Second Chance to Secure New Anti-Tank Stratagem
Ask not what Super Earth can do for you...
With the week Helldivers 2 players just went through IRL, distracted by Sony's regrettable own-goal and subsequent reversal, it should be no surprise that the ongoing Galactic War effort has suffered similarly, with the situation looking worse all the time. Having failed to contain the Terminid Supercolony...
Friday10th May 2024
News 'Negative Sentiment' Prompts Helldivers 2 Dev to Put Releasing Polar Patriots to a Vote
"Democracy has spoken!"
With all the "negative sentiment" in the air and Helldivers 2 developer Arrowhead keen to keep its riotous fanbase calm, the release of the premium Polar Patriots Warbond presented something of a PR issue for the Finnish studio. Not wanting to appear "tone deaf," the dev did just about the most on-brand thing ever, putting
Thursday9th May 2024
Hell yeah
PlayStation has published the PS Store sales charts for April, and the rankings make for an interesting read. High-profile PS5 exclusive Stellar Blade did pretty well, rocking up to second in North America and fourth in Europe. That's not quite on par with what we'd expect from, say, a AAA PlayStation Studios title, but it's still a very...
News Helldivers 2 Director Pushes PlayStation to Backtrack on 170 Steam Delistings
Democracy doesn't sleep
Helldivers 2 director and Arrowhead Studios CEO Johan Pilestedt is reportedly doing what he can to get the game fully relisted on PC. Following the whole PSN kerfuffle last week, in which it was revealed that players would soon need a PSN account in order to play, Sony and Valve — the company that owns Steam — went ahead...
News Helldivers Turn on Arrowhead Following Undemocratic Firing of Community Manager
Justice for General Spitz
If history has taught us anything, it's that when faced with tyranny, lovers of both Liberty and Democracy will fight in their defence to the last round of ammunition, the final drop of blood. In a bombshell development, it looks like developer Arrowhead may have a revolution on its hands, as outraged Helldivers 2 players...
Wednesday8th May 2024
News Helldivers 2 Patch Deployed as Operation Clean Up Continues Apace
A and B the C of D
Intent on getting back to the business of spreading Democracy and Liberty after a wild IRL ride, Helldivers 2 developer Arrowhead has deployed another patch. Primarily focused on quashing bugs, it looks like there was an issue with how DOT (damage over time) was being handled, and the troublesome R-9 Eruptor
Tuesday7th May 2024
News Helldivers 2 Blasted with Over 200,000 Positive User Reviews Following Sony's PSN Backtrack
Democracy, etc.
After being utterly bombarded with negative user reviews over on Steam, Helldivers 2 is now enjoying a return to normalcy on that front. As tracked by SteamDB, the co-op shooter has amassed over 200,000 positive user reviews since Sony decided to reverse its PSN requirement decision just a couple of days ago. That's almost enough of...
News Helldivers 2 CEO Praises 'Willpower' of Community in Sony Showdown
Collaboration comes easy to a Helldiver
It's been a bumpier-than-usual ride for Helldivers 2 players in recent days, and we're talking about a community used to jumping from high orbit into some of the hottest, most nightmarish hell-holes imaginable. Amidst a controversial PSN account requirement for PC players and intense ba
Monday6th May 2024
News Helldivers 2 May Turn Negative Steam Reviews into a Fashionable In-Game Cape
Every cloud
In case you somehow missed it, the last few days have been unusually rocky for Helldivers 2 and developer Arrowhead Game Studios. PlayStation reinstated its PSN-Steam account linking mandate — which was always meant to be in place, but was temporarily removed due to the game's launch issues. This saw an enormous backlash
News Helldivers 2 PSN Requirement Backtracked on PC After Brutal Review Bombing Campaign
"We're still learning"
Sony has, surprisingly, backtracked on its decision to require a PSN login for PC players of Helldivers 2. In a statement published on social media, the manufacturer said: “The 6th May update, which would have required Steam and PSN account linking for new players and for current players beginning 30th May, will not be...
Saturday4th May 2024
News Helldivers 2 PC Is Getting Review Bombed Over PSN Requirement
"I just want to make great games"
Another week, another embarrassing gaming episode. Fresh from Stellar Blade’s overblown “censorship” controversy, players on Steam have taken to review bombing one of the year’s biggest breakout hits: Helldivers 2. As we’ve already reported, developer Arrowhead i
Thursday2nd May 2024
News Ice Your Enemies with Helldivers 2's Latest Premium Warbond, Polar Patriots
Available 9th May
For all you democracy dealers out there, a brand new Warbond is soon to join Helldivers 2, giving you yet more rewards to earn. Launching on 9th May, Polar Patriots is its name, and this snowy-themed Warbond is frozen over with cool new stuff. It includes three new primary weapons — the AR-61 Tenderizer, SMG-72 Pummeler, and...
News Arrowhead to Patch Eruptor as Helldivers 2 Community Reveals Ricochet Issue
When friendly fire isn't
The Helldivers 2 community isn't entirely impressed with developer Arrowhead's latest patch, 01.000.300, which, according to some, significantly nerfed players' fun. In the patch notes, a fix for the seemingly busted way shrapnel ricochets was alleged, but the community has since proved the problem still exists, although...
Wednesday1st May 2024
News Terminids Bust Loose While Helldivers 2 Community Debates Alleged Fun Nerf
Just another day under Managed Democracy
Helldivers 2's latest patch, 01.000.300, dropped yesterday. It introduced sweeping balancing changes to the game and announced in-universe that the previously placid Terminids had broken free of their humane enclosures. While these once-captive sources of E-710 (which Socialists will suggest is just "oil"...
Friday19th Apr 2024
News Super Earth Demands Helldivers 2 Players Slaughter 2 Billion Terminids
To replenish precious supplies of E-710
Helldivers 2 players have been issued a new directive as the Galactic War effort again devolves into a grinding stalemate. The Automatons have deployed increasing numbers of Factory Striders to break the impasse, but for now, the line holds. To amass the necessary fuel to fire a Super Earth counterattack,...
Thursday18th Apr 2024
News Helldivers 2 Players Encountering Factory Striders in Unprecedented Numbers
Automatons back AT-AT again
Helldivers 2 players have recently managed to blunt the advance of the oncoming Automaton invasion fleet, with the conflict again devolving into a grinding stalemate. However, it seems the machines never rest on their laurels, as reports of the lumbering Factory Striders being deployed in unprecedented numbers begin to...
Tuesday16th Apr 2024
News Transmog System 'Doesn't Make Sense' in Helldivers 2, Says CEO
"Like having an apple that tastes like bacon or the other way around"
We doubt we were alone in wondering whether some kind of transmogrification system could reach fashion-conscious Helldivers 2 players grasping hands, but sadly, that won't be the case. Arrowhead CEO Johan Pilestedt put this particular pipe dream to bed, definitively stating, "We...
Friday12th Apr 2024
News Helldivers 2 Players Can Now Requisition Level 4 Super Destroyer Modules
New ship upgrades for each section
Helldivers, in response to the increased threat presented by the massive, seemingly unstoppable Automaton invasion fleet pointed directly at Super Earth, requisition of Level 4 Super Destroyer Modules is now available. The added edge these permanent ship upgrades give might be enough to stem the mechanized tide...
Wednesday10th Apr 2024
News Helldivers 2 Players at LIBCON 1, Expected Automaton Invasion of Cyberstan Begins
Previous bot encounters mere skirmishes in comparison
A new Major Order has come down from Super Earth High Command (Arrowhead Studios), diverting all available Helldivers 2 players to the Valdis Sector. There, a massive Automaton invasion fleet consisting of tens of thousands of warships has emerged from FTL, swiftly overrunning multiple worlds...
Tuesday9th Apr 2024
News Hooray, Helldivers 2 Players Can Unlock the Game's Platinum Trophy Again
The Automatons have returned
Good news, everyone! The Helldivers 2 Trophy list is working again, primarily because the Automaton enemy faction has returned to the game. For those out of the loop, a community event called Operation Swift Disassembly had tasked players with wiping out hordes of evil robots — and the troops actually pulled it off in...
