Automatons Arrowhead The time has come, this week’s major order in Helldivers 2, with a four day time limit, is the complete and total extermination of the remaining Automatons in the entire sector, full stop. Here’s what the message says when players log in today: “OP SWIFT DISASSEMBLE, PHASE IV (FINAL): ANNIHILATION: All Helldivers are … Read more
Recently, players fighting for democracy in online co-op sci-fi shooter Helldivers 2 have spotted strange blue lasers flying across the sky. Others have recorded video clips showing the mysterious blue lasers taking out players with one shot. Some online are convinced that these blue laser bolts are a sign that a new enemy faction (seen … Read more
What does this tell us? Well, that the game has retained its popularity, and hasn’t tailed off like other titles tend to. This is consistent with what we’ve been hearing from various retail sources, where the Arrowhead shooter’s sales have actually been increasing week-on-week – an extremely unusual trend, as most titles tend to sell … Read more
A new patch hit Helldivers 2 on March 6 that unfortunately didn’t go over well with the game’s community. In Discord servers and Reddit posts, folks argued with Arrowhead Game Studios staff over the changes that were made to the third-person live-service shooter and the comments some developers gave back to the criticism they were … Read more
If you’ve heard of or seen Helldivers 2, a co-op third-person shooter inspired by the movie Starship Troopers, you more than likely caught a glimpse of Malevelon Creek. It’s one of the game’s playable planets, controlled by one of two enemy factions, the automatons. You likely haven’t heard the world’s proper name though, as players … Read more
Image: Arrowhead Game Studios / Sony Let me be upfront: no, you’re not the only person trying and failing to spread democracy in Helldivers 2 this week. The Week In Games: Co-Op Bug Blasting And More New Releases The hard-as-nails and ridiculously popular co-op shooter has had a hard time adjusting to fame, meaning some … Read more
This story originally appeared on Kotaku. It’s fair to say that Helldivers 2 is having a good week. Beating GTA V’s concurrent Steam players records, the extraction shooter is outdoing everyone’s expectations, including its own, and it seems this success is spilling over. Because if there’s one source that Helldivers owes the most to, it’s … Read more
In fact, such is its success that it’s now gaining on the aforementioned Palworld. Obviously, interest in the Pokémon-inspired survival game has dipped a little bit since its unfathomable highs, but it was doing about 535k users on Steam when Helldivers 2 was hitting the records mentioned above, so the gap is closing between the … Read more
With the industry as volatile as it is, publishers and developers must find new ways to monetise and offer value to their players to keep them coming back. Released on Friday, Helldivers 2 from developer Arrowhead Studios had a massive weekend, doing things slightly differently from its competitors in the service space, which might be … Read more