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Six Months Later, Helldivers 2 Has Become Its Own Worst Enemy
9.8.2024
Six months along, I think the key takeaway from Helldivers 2 is that no good thing can reasonably last in this ecosystem. Its launch back in February was marked by a meteoric ascent to the top of the charts, but the past few months have been marred by controversy and upheaval that has hurt the game...
Flamethrowers Were King In Helldivers 2, But Not Anymore And Players Are Threatening Mass Desertions
6.8.2024
Helldivers 2 received a big new patch today ahead of its Freedom’s Flame Warbond later this week and it has players feeling burned and betrayed. The update brought big changes to the existing flamethrower which is no longer melting heavily-armored Charger enemies with ease and the community...
Helldivers 2 Trolls Crowdstrike Over Worldwide Outage
24.7.2024
Live-service games face an extraordinarily tough time battling to maintain their player-base, competing against a dozen similar games, and trying to constantly satisfy impossibly disparate audience—but one benefit that’s all too rarely utilized is the ability to be incredibly topical and reactive....
Helldivers 2 Is Getting Even Tougher In A Huge New Update
23.7.2024
Helldivers 2 has changed a lot over the past five months, but that change has been largely incremental, taking place across a number of smaller, steadily released updates. It seemed like every other week, there was some new feature, enemy, or environment that was being debuted. Eventually, these...
Helldivers 2 Boss Begs Team Not To Fix The Game's Best Bug
9.7.2024
Co-op third-person shooter Helldivers 2 has a new bug discovered this week (thanks PC Gamer), as the game’s latest big story beat reached its dramatic conclusion: offering mid-air hugs saves lives. Various emotes, when performed while plummeting, will reduce fall damage. And today, the developer’s...
Helldivers 2 Just Can’t Catch A Break Anymore
31.5.2024
Once upon a time, Helldivers 2 was everyone’s favorite game. Players were overjoyed to cosplay as satirized fascists, and the promise of an evolving galactic war story enthralled the masses. Nowadays though, it seems like Helldivers 2’s own community is getting increasingly sick of it and...
Our First Look At Concord, PlayStation's Guardians Of The Galaxy-Infused Hero Shooter
31.5.2024
Sony finally pulled back the curtain to reveal what Concord is actually about. It’s giving Guardians of the Galaxy vibes mixed with a traditional competitive shooter. The PvP FPS was first teased a year ago and will be coming to PlayStation 5 and PC later this year on August 23. Read more
Helldivers 2 Is Facing A Numbers Problem
24.5.2024
Helldivers 2 is crashing back down to Earth. After a meteoric ascent, and a lengthy tenure at the very top of the live-service market, Arrowhead Game Studios’ player count for its cooperative third-person shooter has been in an extended free fall the last several weeks. Now, player counts...
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...
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...
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 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 CEO Says ‘Just Fix, Don’t Add’ Isn’t A Viable Option
18.4.2024
Helldivers 2 has spent the last several months on fire. On one hand, it’s easily one of the most popular games of the year, and folks have loved jumping into the exciting co-op shooter and keeping up with its galactic war story. Players log on for a few hours at a time, fighting off bugs or robots...
Helldivers 2 Community Successfully Wipes Out Robots, Anxiously Await What’s Next
8.4.2024
They did it. They said it was impossible, and that all the odds were against them, but the bastards did it. Over the weekend, Arrowhead Game Studios passed down the final phase of Operation Swift Disassembly, a major order that tasked Helldivers 2 players with wiping out the robot Automatons...
Helldivers 2 Decrees ‘Malevelon Creek Memorial Day,’ Rewards Players With Capes
3.4.2024
Everywhere I go, Malevelon Creek follows. It is in every other Helldivers-related post I see on Twitter, Reddit, and TikTok. When I first played Helldivers 2, the game was synonymous with this image of soldiers in some barren desert laying waste to killer bugs. Now? Now all I see is that damn...