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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...
Suicide Squad Hackers Break Game To Play As Unreleased Characters
5.4.2024
It appears the live-service shooter Suicide Squad: Kill The Justice League is, once again, suffering from a hacker problem. Instead of doing absolutely absurd amounts of damage, this time hackers have figured out how to gain access to unreleased characters and skins. And publisher WB Games...
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...
Helldivers 2’s Robots Back With A Vengeance, Now Have Gunships And Walking Tanks
2.4.2024
War…war never changes…or at least that’s what some people say. They’d be wrong though, because in the case of the satirical co-op shooter Helldivers 2, war is frequently changing—often at the behest of the players—into a neverending nightmare. The war that players signed up for when Helldivers...
Helldivers 2 Players Finally Liberate Malevelon Creek, AKA 'Robot Vietnam'
1.4.2024
The narrative of the co-op shooter Helldivers 2 has taken unpredictable twists and turns that have kept its community on its toes since it launched, but no surprise has been greater than the reverence for Malevelon Creek. The embattled planet, often referred to as “Robot Vietnam” due to...
Embracer Sells Borderlands Maker Gearbox For Less Than Half Of What It Paid
28.3.2024
Another company has escaped the gaping, acquisition-hungry maw that is publisher Embracer Group, as Borderlands developer Gearbox Software has been sold to Take-Two Interactive. This lines up with Kotaku’s previous reporting on the matter in February, in which sources told us Gearbox was nearing...
Elder Scrolls VI Is Playable And Sounds Fun, According To An Update From Bethesda
25.3.2024
The Elder Scrolls, Bethesda’s immensely popular open-world RPG franchise, turns 30 years old today. To celebrate, the company posted a short history of the series and its innovations on social media. However, it also briefly talked about the future of the series, confirming that folks at the studio...
Stardew Valley's Big Patch, An Apex Legends Hack, And More Of The Week's Gaming News
23.3.2024
This week, one of the biggest stories in gaming involved updates to an eight-year-old game. Yes, Stardew Valley developer ConcernedApe trickled out a series of details about the game’s latest patch that had fans hanging on every word in anticipation. We’ve got all the facts for you about this...
Larian Studios Is Officially Done With The Baldur’s Gate Series
21.3.2024
Just like that, Larian Studios is done with not just Baldur’s Gate 3, its smash hit 2023 roleplaying game, but with the franchise altogether. And I do mean done, as studio founder Swen Vincke said during a talk at the Game Developers Conference (GDC) that the team is moving on from the series.Read...
Baldur’s Gate 3 Dev Teases A Wild Collaboration
19.3.2024
Have you ever been playing the roguelike shoot-em-up Vampire Survivors and thought it might be improved if the vampire elf Astarion from Baldur’s Gate 3 were to show up? Well, something like that might be in the cards. Either that or Larian Studios CEO Swen Vincke is just tweeting out his best...
The Among Us Animated Show’s Cast Is Stacked
15.3.2024
If you didn’t know or, like me, completely jettisoned the information from your brain, popular social deduction game Among Us is getting an animated series by way of CBS Studios. Today, Variety reported the series’ cast, and it’s absolutely stacked with talent, including actors from some...
Star Wars: KOTOR Remake Developer Escapes Embracer’s Clutches
14.3.2024
Saber Interactive, the developer and publisher working on projects such as Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic - Remake, has officially been sold by Embracer Group. This comes in the wake of a Bloomberg report and updates to its website indicating a sale was imminent. The $500 million deal will...
One Of 2023’s Best Remakes Is Finally Coming To Consoles
13.3.2024
2023 was a year full of critically acclaimed remakes. From Dead Space to Resident Evil 4, players could enjoy old favorites on modern consoles. One of the best remakes of the year was Nightdive’s System Shock, a remake of the influential sci-fi immersive sim released in 1994. Now Nightdive...
Helldivers 2 Is Addressing Its Bug Problem In More Than One Way
12.3.2024
Helldivers 2 has a bug problem. No, not that one, but a literal bug problem. The Terminids, a species of huge, homicidal bugs, have plagued the game since the very beginning. They’re the first enemies in Super Earth’s ongoing galactic war, and players have dropped onto planet after planet in...
After Payday 3 Flops, Starbreeze Removes CEO And Looks For 'Different Leadership'
12.3.2024
The launch of Payday 3 in 2023 was a disaster, leading to poor review scores, a negative Steam rating, and fans abandoning the new game to play Payday 2 instead. Now, a few months later, and after Payday 3 failed to meet sales expectations, the CEO of developer Starbreeze has been removed as...
Former Xbox Exec Says The End Of Consoles Is 'A Serious Question'
8.3.2024
Peter Moore knows a lot about making video game consoles. He was Sega of America’s chief operating officer and president from 1999-2003, the man behind the Xbox and Xbox 360 at Microsoft from 2003-2007, and an EA executive vice president from 2007-2017. (You might remember him for his (possibly...
Helldivers 2 CEO Is ‘Extremely Disappointed’ With Dev Behavior
8.3.2024
Some of our posts include links to retailers. If you buy something from clicking on one, G/O Media may earn a commission. Because editorial staff is independent of commerce, affiliate linking does not influence our editorial content.A new patch hit Helldivers 2 on March 6 that unfortunately didn’t...
Mechs Are Coming To Helldivers 2, If You Can Liberate Tien Kwan
7.3.2024
The most fascinating thing about Helldivers 2’s ongoing story is how effectively its momentum and beats are used to not just make the player base feel immersed in an ongoing, evolving conflict, but to mobilize them in specific directions. We know that Joel, a developer at Arrowhead Game Studios,...
Everything We Saw At Xbox’s Partner Preview Stream
6.3.2024
Xbox held a Partner Preview showcase today, which put spotlight on a handful of third-party games coming to Xbox Series X|S. If you missed the show and want to watch the 30-minute presentation, you can check out the full video below. If you just want to know the highlights, click through to...
Helldivers 2 Lives Up To Its Name, Adds Planetary Hazards Like Fire Tornadoes
6.3.2024
Helldivers 2 has only been out for about a month and has already evolved so much. At first, players were only laying waste to bugs, but now there are also killer robots to fight on the other side of the galaxy. Planets have been liberated, while others have fallen, and divers discovered that...