Get all your news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One app.

Get all your news in one place.

100's of premium titles. One news app.

The Latest Breaking News from Arrowhead

From Warhammer 40K to Star Wars, Helldivers 2 creative director "would love to do a take on" loads of IP, but doing them all would be a "not Helldivers" experience

He clarifies that his ideas are "just musings," with "nothing decided yet"

GamesRadar

Helldivers 2's Joel gives cruelest Major Order yet as High Command eyes "disenfranchised families" as "cheap labor" to work on the dangerously sketchy new superweapon

Fight for what's right, or whatever Joel tells you to fight for, I guess

GamesRadar

Helldivers 2 players are calling the absolutely brutal new major order "unwinnable," but at least they have the new WW1 gun and its melee bayonet to help them out

Freedom fighters have less than six days to liberate three planets and defend against five robot attacks

GamesRadar

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

Helldivers 2 gave players a deliberately awful, crusty rifle from 1903 but they love it because they can bayonet charge bugs like sci-fi Waterloo

The developers at Arrowhead are up to their old tricks.

PC Gamer

Helldivers 2 celebrates Liberty Day with the gift of a returning beloved weapon, and all you have to do to get it is complete a Major Order only a traitor could fail

To celebrate Liberty Day, Helldivers 2 developer Arrowhead Game Studios is bringing gear from the original game to the sequel.

Windows Central

A Helldivers 2 player wrote a whole essay on how it feels to fight bots and almost nobody noticed, but one of the lead devs has responded with an essay of their own

Arrowhead plans to look "more properly" into "how tanky or deadly" bots should be

GamesRadar

Helldivers 2's Democracy Space Station may have been dominating our Major Orders for the last month, but Arrowhead still isn't "going into the details" on it yet

Like the rest of the game, the DSS will "most likely change and evolve over time"

GamesRadar

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

A Helldivers 2 Xbox release is "not up to" Arrowhead but to Sony and Phil Spencer to "duke out" - but if Sony says no, that's it

It could "hypothetically" happen if "both partners think it would benefit them"

GamesRadar

"It’s not up to us but to Sony and Phil to duke out": Helldivers 2 dev says Xbox release is possible, but PlayStation has to play nice first

In a new statement, a Helldivers 2 community manager has said an Xbox release could come, but it will depend on Sony and Microsoft working something out.

Windows Central

The culmination of Helldivers 2's 60-day patch plan canonises John Helldiver—less importantly, there's been major buffs to grenades, sentries, and the long-avoided anti tank mines

In John we trust.

PC Gamer

Helldivers 2's massive 63-day overhaul patch is here, bringing an end to a rebalance of "over 70 weapons and Stratagems" while also making certain Terminids explode, for some reason

Now get out there and deliver managed democracy

GamesRadar

Helldivers 2's 60-day patch, which was due this weekend, is now a 63-day patch because oops, turns out there's a Saturday in the way

"We don't wanna break the game while you're playing the game."

PC Gamer

Helldivers 2's 60-day recovery plan is now a 63-day recovery plan, as Arrowhead delays its big patch at the last minute because "we didn't look at the calendar"

"We don't patch during weekends, because we don't want to break the game while you're playing the game"

GamesRadar

The Dark Age of Paradox Interactive: What exactly happened to one of PC gaming's best publishers?

From disappointing launches to delays to cancellations, it's been a rough time for the Swedish publisher, but it's trying to bounce back.

PC Gamer

Get all your
news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One news app.

PC Gamer

Helldivers 2 players are constructing a 'Democratic Space Station' in the runup to Liberty Day, which some think is just so that the Illuminate can steam in and blow it up

This thing will take weeks to build, and the big day is October 26.

GamesRadar

Helldivers 2 takes a big swing in its Galactic War by letting players choose the home of a "Democracy Space Station" which "could change the course of the war"

Now that's a Major Order

GamesRadar

The first big Helldivers 2 patch of Arrowhead's 60-day recovery plan kicks off a redemption arc, with player numbers and reviews steadily improving

Talk about an effective recruitment drive

GamesRadar

Helldivers 2 lead says the game's balance problems were "a leadership issue more than anything" and the new buff patch was made by "the same people" who made the nerfs

Johan Pilestedt says Helldivers 2's low moments are due to a lack of cohesion in the studio

Get all your
news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One news app.

PC Gamer

So that's why Arrowhead didn't want to buff everything: Helldivers 2 has lost some of the friction that made it special

Helldivers 2's toughest enemies have been reduced to fodder.

GamesRadar

As the first big Helldivers 2 patch of Arrowhead's 60-day plan wins back divers, the shooter's creative director agrees that "nerfing is an unimaginative way of tweaking a game"

Buffs for all

PC Gamer

Arrowhead creative director agrees Helldivers 2 needs a harder difficulty mode after the 'buff everything' patch

Super Duper Helldive, anyone?

GamesRadar

First major patch of Helldivers 2's 60-day plan is a huge list of changes designed to do two things: Keep divers alive for longer, and kill Bots and Bugs much quicker

Oil will be spilled, and bugs will be squashed

PC Gamer

Helldivers 2 devs took fan outcry to heart and made the new Napalm Barrage an absolute monstrosity

This overpowered stratagem feels like the future of Helldivers 2.

GamesRadar

Helldivers 2 is buffing the iconic Eagle 500KG Bomb to the level it was "supposed to be" at all along: "Big booms should boom big"

The Stratagem's damage radius should now match its massive explosion

The Independent UK

Taylor Swift, fresh off the VMAs, back at Arrowhead to watch boyfriend Travis Kelce and the Chiefs

Taylor Swift capped a busy week that included her endorsement of Kamala Harris for president and seven trophies from the MTV Video Music Awards by showing up at Arrowhead Stadium to watch the Kansas City Chiefs

1 … 11 12 13 14

People

Thomas Twinbeard Petersson

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

Organisations

The Kansas City Chiefs

Arrowhead Game Studios

162 stories

Illuminate

110 stories

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

Topics

Fourteen days free

Download the app

One app. One membership.
100+ trusted global sources.