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The Latest Breaking News from Super Earth

Helldivers 2 Update: Illuminate Faction Returns with New Enemies and Weapon Customization

In the latest Helldivers 2 update, the Illuminate faction intensifies its assault on Super Earth, introducing new enemy types like the Fleshmob and Stingray.

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Not content with a massive update and a new Warbond, Helldivers 2 may be getting another patch next week as a deleted post points to an invasion of Super Earth itself

Prepare to defend the very Heart of Democracy

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Don't swap out your pants just yet, Helldivers 2 might be getting another update next week to coincide with the battle for Super Earth

Arrowhead's got more surprises in its quiver.

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Helldivers 2's new Illuminate Galactic Emergency update has arrived with new enemy types, weapon customization, and a terrifying fleet headed right for Super Earth

The Illuminate invasion Helldivers 2 players have feared for months is here in the Galactic Emergency update, and it's brutal. Here's what's going on, and all of the patch notes, too.

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Nobody could have seen it coming: Helldivers 2's Illuminate emerge from the black hole players stopped from crashing into Super Earth, with "larger, more powerful enemies within their fleet"

At least weapon customization is here to help deal with them

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Super Earth is under attack, and Helldivers 2's trouser-browning update is finally here—with weapon customisation, new Illuminate troops, and an inevitable battle on democracy's home turf

The Illuminate's coming for Super Earth, and it sure isn't messing around.

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The Helldivers 2 board game leans into "the cooperative chaos of the video game," the designers promise

Prepare to defend Super Earth

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The new Helldivers 2 Illuminate Major Order is so important that we got a new stratagem for it

If Helldivers 2 players can complete this new Major Order, the Illuminate's Meridian Singularity black hole can finally be stopped.

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'Helldivers 2' Catastrophe: Black Hole Destroys Angel's Venture—Thousands Dead, More Planets at Risk

Super Earth is in crisis as the Meridian Singularity wipes out Angel's Venture, killing 480,000—now five more planets are in its deadly path.

Player One

Oh Liberty: Helldivers 2 just lost Angel's Venture to the Illuminate and the Meridia black hole, and now the aliens are sending it right at Super Earth

Despite valiant defensive efforts from Helldivers 2 players, the Meridia black hole has destroyed Angel's Venture — and the Illuminate is setting its sights on other planets next.

Windows Central

Liberty save us, Helldivers 2 just lost a planet to the deadly black hole we created last year after spaghettifying Meridia, and the singularity is still on a path to Super Earth

Angel's Venture has been torn apart by the Meridian Singularity

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Sweet liberty, the Illuminate are moving an entire wormhole across Helldivers 2's galaxy map to slam dunk it into Super Earth like a basketball

Welcome to the Space Dive. Here's your chance, do your dance, at the Space Dive.

PC Gamer

'Helldivers' game series is getting a movie — would you like to know more?

Movies are usually shot on 35mm, but we're feeling the 380mm barrage for this one. For Super Earth!

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100 years after Super Earth saw them off the first time, Helldivers 2 brings back the Illuminate faction in its new Omens of Tyranny update, live now

The Illuminate "will challenge our recruits more than the other factions they have faced"

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Helldivers 2's departing CM reflects on being the mouthpiece for Super Earth as the game went galactic: 'Crazy, mostly in a good way'

"You rarely plan for a global phenomenon."

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Helldivers 2's Terminid Jurassic Park has, shockingly, backfired horrifically, all while Super Earth soldiers are busy trying to get the Democracy Space Station running

"Who could have predicted such an event?!"

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Helldivers 2 players are worried about the future as the bots close in on Super Earth: "I bet Arrowhead does not have a working Super Earth biome ready to go"

Will Super Earth fall?

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'Let Super Earth burn': Helldivers 2 players are committing treason to protest its latest patch—allowing a tide of bots to creep worryingly close to home

The flame wars proceed apace.

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Frustrated with the nerfs, Helldivers 2 grunts are protesting by letting the bots take Super Earth, and they're dangerously close to succeeding

"Let the bots advance. Let the Super Earth burn"

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Super Earth grants free mechs to all Helldivers 2 players in celebration of a last-minute Major Order victory

Never tell me the odds.

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'Helldivers 2' Just Spawned A Black Hole, and Players Already Have Wild Theories About It

The valiant 'Helldivers 2' community spent the weekend snuffing out the supercolony of Terminids that overtook the remote planet of Meridia. The victory has been immortalized with the creation of a Black Hole in distant space, an anomaly that is most definitely a good thing for the continued fight for…

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Helldivers 2 players getting all hot and bothered over Eagle-1's lovely voice now have an in-game solution—Eagle Sweat, the glorious smell of democracy

Goood morning Super Earth!

PC Gamer

Helldivers 2 player infects a Super Earth news broadcast with an Automaton diss track—and it can actually be translated into English, thanks to advancements in R&D

Treasonous tunes.

Windows Central

Helldivers 2's Automatons are back for robotic revenge, and oh Liberty, they're invading Cyberstan and 5 other planets we have to defend in 3 days

The Automatons have returned in Helldivers 2, and they've brought a colossal invasion fleet that's rapidly advancing. Super Earth forces are ordered to slow its advance as much as possible.

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They fly now too? Helldivers 2 warns players that Automatons are developing 'aerial gunships,' so Super Earth is countering with 'our most effective anti-air weaponry'

Start warming up your Quasar Cannons.

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