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PlayStation 5 Sales Fall Short Of PS4, Even As Helldivers 2 Breaks Records
14.5.2024
Sony sold over 20 million PlayStation 5s in its last fiscal year, an impressive number that nevertheless failed to hit its original goal of 25 million, and even missed its revised target of 21 million consoles sold. The latest numbers make it clear that the next-gen hardware will probably never...
Awesome Helldivers 2 Mod Lets Players Reenact Their Star Wars Fantasies
13.5.2024
Helldivers 2 may be a video game analog for the satire of the 1997 sci-fi film Starship Troopers, but there’s an entirely different space-faring movie franchise fans have been clamoring to see in the game. That franchise is, quite predictably, Star Wars, and folks have especially wanted to...
Helldivers 2’s Latest Major Order Suggests Player Choices May Not Really Matter
10.5.2024
Helldivers 2’s major orders are supposed to be objectives that unite the community to work toward a common goal, one that often paves the way for momentous beats in its ongoing galactic war. Past major orders have led to incredible player-led stories like the liberation of Malevelon Creek and...
Helldivers 2’s Community Railing Against New Warbond Weapon, Calls It A ‘Downgrade’
9.5.2024
Helldivers 2’s terrible, no-good, very bad week was meant to be over by now, but instead the game and its developer are taking yet another hard knock. First there was the debacle last week that saw Helldivers 2 a) pulled from Steam in various countries over a PSN login requirement, b)...
Helldivers 2 Community Manager Seemingly Gone After PlayStation Login Meltdown
8.5.2024
Things in the world of Helldivers 2 are going back to normal after Sony reversed course on a controversial PSN login requirement for the popular sci-fi shooter on PC. But not everyone appears to have made it out of the public relations fiasco in one piece. Arrowhead Studios community manager Spitz...
Helldivers 2 Community Rallies To Rescue The Game's Steam Reviews
7.5.2024
Co-op shooter Helldivers 2 was enjoying tons of success in the months since its February launch. Then, a few days ago, Sony announced that PC players had to link (or create) a PlayStation Network account to continue playing the game. This enraged fans who have been playing for months, resulting...
PlayStation Reversing Course On Helldivers 2 Is Both Smart And A Sign Of How Inept It Is
6.5.2024
Last week, Arrowhead Studios announced that an upcoming update to its hit co-op shooter Helldivers 2 would require existing PC players on Steam to make a PlayStation Network account to continue playing. If they didn’t, they’d lose access to their Helldivers accounts, and that news did not land...
Ghost Of Tsushima Multiplayer Will Require A PlayStation Network Sign-In On PC
6.5.2024
Sucker Punch’s open-world samurai game Ghost of Tsushima is getting a Steam port this month that will require a PlayStation Network account to access its multiplayer mode. If this sounds familiar, it’s because Sony recently announced that the “grace period” for the beloved multiplayer game...
Helldivers 2 Won't Require A PSN Account On Steam After Massive Player Backlash
6.5.2024
PlayStation has announced that, after about three days of online yelling and reviewing bombing, it will no longer require Helldivers 2 players on PC to link their Steam account to a PlayStation Network account in order to continue accessing the popular sci-fi co-op shooter. Read more
Helldivers 2 Boss Says Sorry After Game Gets Review-Bombed To Hell
3.5.2024
It’s been a terrible day for Helldivers 2 and the team behind it. Angry players swarmed the co-op shooter’s Steam page to review-bomb it like a giant hive of Terminids after a PlayStation Network login requirement was reinstituted on PC. “Ouch, right in the review score,” Arrowhead Studios...
Helldivers 2 Community At War Over Controversial PSN Requirement
3.5.2024
Helldivers 2 is a game about endless war and now its fanbase finds itself in a similar situation as a civil war rages on between players following a change to how the super-popular online shooter will operate on PC.Read more
A Bugged Helldivers 2 Stat Was So Terrible, Players Refused To Believe It Was True
3.5.2024
For some time now, the Helldivers 2 community has wanted clearer data on the galactic war that it’s been fighting, and earlier this week, Arrowhead Game Studios finally delivered. Specifically, the studio deployed the “Super Commas,” which implemented dividing commas into the existing in-game stats...
Helldivers 2 Players Mad Over New PSN Steam Requirements
3.5.2024
Among the myriad scourges that make playing games in 2024 so tiresome, the need for multiple different accounts to various services ranks high. Helldivers 2 players have just been told by Sony that come next week, they’ll have to link their Steam account with a PlayStation Network account...
Launching A $60+ Game Seems Like A Bad Idea Right Now
2.5.2024
While recent big-budget, $60+ games like Suicide Squad and Immortals of Aveum seem unable to find success, many smaller and weirder titles are exploding on Steam and developing large communities around them. Games like Helldivers 2, Palworld, Lethal Company, and Sons of the Forest are all major...
Helldivers 2 Is Putting On A Clinic When It Comes To Games As A Service
2.5.2024
Helldivers 2's next battle pass is just around the corner. Arrowhead Studios announced that the Polar Patriots Warbond, featuring new weapons and Arctic-themed armor, will drop on May 9. It’s the third battle pass the co-op shooter has received in as many months, and the latest example of how...
Helldivers 2’s Latest Patch Turns Shrapnel Into Your Most Fearsome Foe
30.4.2024
Helldivers 2 was patched earlier this week and introduced some sweeping changes with it. Among the more notable adjustments are a much-needed reduction in fire damage and a broad increase in damage output, but it’s an otherwise innocuous patch note about ricochet damage that has set the community...
Fallout 4's Big Update, Stellar Blade's Launch Day Patch, And More Of The Week's Gaming News
27.4.2024
This week’s gaming news saw Helldivers 2 continue its efforts at world domination, Fallout 4's big next-gen patch cause problems as well as fix them, and much more.Read more
Helldivers 2 Players Being Forced To Pick Between Two New Stratagems
26.4.2024
Arrowhead Game Studios has enjoyed handing down some tough and consequential major orders for the Helldivers 2 community to beat, but its latest might be one of its thorniest yet. You see, major orders tend to focus the entirety of the player base on a single objective or set of goals, such...
Helldivers 2 Players Absolutely Hate Hellmire And For Good Reason
23.4.2024
Helldivers 2 players have strong feelings about the planets they’re fighting to defend in the game’s ongoing galactic war. First there was Malevelon Creek, which became a notorious hotspot for players, after it was dubbed “Robot Vietnam” due to its flame-spewing robots, jungle setting,...
Fallout’s Michael Esper Shares His Go-To Helldivers 2 Stratagems
19.4.2024
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