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The dude screaming in Helldivers 2's intro.

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Illumi-wait over? | Helldivers 2 just got a Steam update literally entitled "gameplay_illuminates", and players aren't sure if it's the real thing, or god-tier Arrowhead trolling

"Can't wait for it being an update on the lighting in the gameplay and everyone getting bamboozled."

Nov. 22, 2024 Mark Warren

The guy in Helldivers 2's intro about to don his helmet.

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We're Not Live, Pal | Helldivers 2 devs shut down some live testing rumours, emphasising that Arrowhead folks playing it won't show off that they're a dev before getting up to "strange behaviours"

The studio is also still "looking into" armour colour customisation.

Nov. 21, 2024 Mark Warren

Artwork for the mobile game Solo Leveling Arise, showing the game's main character Sung Jinwoo holding two swords.

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Nov. 20, 2024 Amelia Zollner

Key art for EVE Vanguard with a militiaman walking towards the frame, flanked with slightly faded Guardian from Destiny and a soldier from Helldivers

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Carpe DieMMO | “Lasting is the key word” How EVE: Vanguard plans to leverage Helldivers 2, World of Warcraft, and Destiny to make a shooter that actually, truly, respects your time

The main EVE game is 50 expansions old, and stronger than ever. CCP wants its nascent shooter to be just as venerable, one day.

Nov. 19, 2024 Dom Peppiatt

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Four More Years | The good news is EVE: Vanguard is targeting a console release, the bad news is you’re probably going to wait until at least 2028 for it

How long are you going to wait for “the ultimate sci-fi MMOFPS” on console? At least another four years, and that’s if you’re lucky.

Nov. 19, 2024 Dom Peppiatt

An explosion happening next to a Helldiver in Helldivers 2.

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Chill Period | Helldivers 2's latest major order is all about using the Democracy Space Station, which is er, currently still on cooldown for the next half a day or so

Hey, at least that means you're definitely safe from being blown up by it for a bit.

Nov. 19, 2024 Mark Warren

A helldiver wearing Truth Enforcers Warbond armour in Helldivers 2.

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DSScussions | Don't worry, Helldivers 2 folks, Arrowhead's working on the Democracy Space Station's team-killing tendencies, and it's already introduced a temporary tweak to help

"This is not the end of the DSS, we'll tweak and evolve."

Nov. 15, 2024 Mark Warren

A helldiver wearing Truth Enforcers Warbond gear in Helldivers 2, alongside the guy screaming in the intro.

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Oopsbital Barrage | Helldivers 2 players sour a bit on their lovely new Democracy Space Station, because it's turned out to be very good at killing, er, helldivers

"Finally, Arrowhead listened and gave the bots a stratagem to even the playing field..."

Nov. 15, 2024 Mark Warren

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ARCing Positive | ARC Raiders gameplay debut shows off what could be one of the most intriguing mechanics in an extraction shooter yet

ARC Raiders finally shows off its updated gameplay, offering some familiar extraction shooter notes, and a few surprising fresh additions.

Nov. 14, 2024 Sherif Saed

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DS-Yesssssssssssssss | Wahey, Helldivers 2's Democracy Space Station is finally up and running, and in the words of one overwhelmed Super Earth stan: "It's so democratic omfg"

Democracy has been made manifest, after a month and a bit of hard helldiver grafting.

Nov. 14, 2024 Mark Warren

Helldivers 2 players using flamethrowers.

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Gimme Fuel | Attention, Helldivers 2 players: it's finally time to fuel up your space station by killing five million bugs while also battling the Jet Brigade, because multitasking

Yep, it's another Major Order that'll have you thinking about how cool it'd be to clone your diver.

Nov. 11, 2024 Mark Warren

A Helldiver looking out over a planet from a ship in Helldivers 2.

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DSSoon | Helldivers 2 players reckon the Democracy Space Station saga is starting to drag a bit, cue speculation about exactly how final its "final phase" might be

Don't worry, now it's full of disenfranchised families, I'm sure it won't be long until Arrowhead's at the stage of wrapping the DSS up and affixing a 'To the divers' tag.

Nov. 11, 2024 Mark Warren

Players wearing gear from Helldivers 2's Chemical Agents Warbond sprinting through a cloud of gas.

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Crossbowver Chat | After laying out the dream Helldivers 2 crossovers he thinks about in the shower, CCO Pilestedt says you'll have to "see what happens" when it comes to massive PVE battles

Starship Troopers, Terminator, there are big guns in there, even if Arrowhead's creative bossman wouldn't want to go bananas and do all of them.

Nov. 5, 2024 Mark Warren

A Helldivers 2 player diving while firing the Eruptor.

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Save Our Swooping | Helldivers 2's latest patch makes raising flags less terrifying, and cheeky mid-air medical care could be part of Arrowhead's solution to ragdolling "helplessness"

Also, that SOS beacon you'd put out about SOS beacons has been answered.

Nov. 5, 2024 Mark Warren

Some helldivers gathered around a console in Helldivers 2.

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Unexpected Moves | Helldivers 2 just told players to fill their nearly ready superweapon with "disenfranchised families" who'll staff it and live there, like Death Star British actors

Apparently Super Earth's decided to skimp on its labour costs, because of course it has.

Nov. 4, 2024 Mark Warren

Multiple horror game characters are shown. From left to right, there is: Fatal Frame Project Zero's Ose Kurosawa, Alien Isolation's Xenomorph, Resident Evil 7's Jack Baker, the chef from Little Nightmares, and Pyramid Head from Silent Hill 2

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Nov. 1, 2024 Kelsey Raynor

A soldier wearing one of the armour sets from Helldivers 2's Chemical Agents Warbond.

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Over Super Salaries? | Helldivers 2's new Doubt Killer armour triggers a wave of doubt as to whether players are cool with paying almost the price of a full Warbond for one Superstore suit

250 Super Credits is a fair amount for a cape, no matter how nice its red lining may be.

Oct. 31, 2024 Mark Warren

The Ordinator Armour from Skyrim's Ghosts of the Tribunal creation.

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Modking A Difference | Nexus Mods says folks "should be pressuring" paid mod platforms to "do better" if they're frustrated by its new policy on the ever-controversial topic

Modding site puts some "ire" at its change down to people seeing its features as "far more powerful and convenient than those offered by the paid modding platforms".

Oct. 31, 2024 Mark Warren

Some Skyrim creation club items next to Starfield's Starborn Gravis Suit.

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Free vs Fee | Nexus Mods updates its stance on paid mods for the first time since Bethesda's latest attempt at them, says it believes "modding should be a pursuit of passion first and foremost"

This policy update's proved a bit polarising - as stuff around this subject always does - and Nexus' team says it has "another update" coming soon.

Oct. 30, 2024 Mark Warren

The player character aims their gun at a deer in Once Human

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Oct. 30, 2024 Kelsey Raynor

A Helldivers 2 player wielding the Constitution rifle.

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Plasma Punished | Helldivers 2 patch 01.001.201 sees Arrowhead ditch its previous Punisher Plasma tweaks and puts on a "dignified funeral" for a technician's goldfish

The studio's also "currently working on further solutions to address the ragdolling issues".

Oct. 29, 2024 Mark Warren

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Party Over | Helldivers 2's post Liberty Day MO basically looks like J.O.E.L lobbing the kitchen sink at Super Earth, so here's hoping you enjoyed your little Galactic War break

"WAIT, they forgot to say we need to choose one, WHAT!"

Oct. 28, 2024 Mark Warren

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Knife One | Helldivers 2's Liberty Day celebrations see players inevitably fall in love with a crappy meme gun, mainly because you can stab tanks to death with it

"Ooh, so it's not a bayonet. It's a can opener."

Oct. 28, 2024 Mark Warren

One former Bethesda dev thinks Starfield 2 is going to be "one hell of a game", so it's a shame we probably won't get to play it for another decade

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Worth The Wait? | One former Bethesda dev thinks Starfield 2 is going to be "one hell of a game", so it's a shame we probably won't get to play it for another decade

Or maybe Bethesda has finally cracked the code on not taking so long to make its games.

Oct. 27, 2024 Oisin Kuhnke

Some helldivers wearing gear from Helldivers 2's Truth Enforcers Warbond.

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No Fibs Allowed | Can you handle the truth? Helldivers 2's next Warbond, Truth Enforcers, looks like it'll make damn sure you can when it drops with a new shotgun and SMG

Yep, this is one for the hardcore Super Earth roleplayers.

Oct. 24, 2024 Mark Warren

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Same Thing, Sort Of | Helldivers 2 community manager says potential Xbox port is up to "Sony and Phil to duke out", as latest MO forces players to choose between two different coloured things

The Jet Brigade threat may be over, but life for the divers is already on to the next fight.

Oct. 24, 2024 Mark Warren

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Enhance! | PlayStation's most important game this year and its most forgotten are both getting PS5 Pro upgrades

Two more great reasons to forego that holiday you've been planning in lieu of a PS5 Pro.

Oct. 23, 2024 Connor Makar

A high elf in The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion next to a Starfield character dressed as Emperor Uriel Septim.

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By Azura | Starfield modders are attempting to re-create Oblivion in space, with hopes for an eventual "Elder star system" that'll be "finishing the job" the Adoring Fan started

The starting point for "Starblivion" is an alternate start mod that kicks off your interstellar adventure in a familiar dungeon.

Oct. 22, 2024 Mark Warren

The dude in Helldivers 2's intro screaming about the spear being broken, probably.

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Super Scare | As Helldivers 2 players battle for Marfark, Arrowhead looks to have just given them all a heart attack by momentarily showing a Jet Brigade assault of the whole map

Damn J.O.E.L, if this was another one of your tricks, you're a cruel master of the universe.

Oct. 21, 2024 Mark Warren

The guy screaming in Helldivers 2 next to a player fighting an automaton.

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It's Aaron Rodgers | Uh oh, Helldivers 2's latest big Galactic War twist is a massive Automaton onslaught fronted by some fancy "augmented" bots dubbed "the Jet Brigade"

Arrowhead definitely doesn't want you resting on the laurels of that last Major Order win.

Oct. 18, 2024 Mark Warren

A player wearing some Chemical Agents Warbond armour in Helldivers 2.

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OP about OPness | After getting giddy-upped in major fashion, Helldivers 2's Bile Titan-slaying six-shooter has now sent the community through every stage of the buff reaction Kübler-Ross model

It's ok, these cowboys will eventually hawk a consensus into the spittoon that is Reddit.

Oct. 18, 2024 Mark Warren

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60 Days Done | Helldivers 2 Patch 01.001.104 wraps up Arrowhead's 60 and a bit day plan by aiming to make the Automatons "less frustrating to play against" and unleashing more fun weapon tweaks

"We listened, we learned, and we took action."

Oct. 15, 2024 Mark Warren

Skyrim's Dragonborn opposite a helldiver in Helldivers 2 wielding a rifle.

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Toddaly Unexpected | After a minor calendar mix-up, Helldivers 2's next big patch drops soon and it's already inspired jokes about Skyrim being ported to some bullets

To be fair, I doubt you'll have much time to play DOOM on your rifle while you're in the middle of a firefight.

Oct. 14, 2024 Mark Warren

Starfield's design director thinks the sci-fi RPG sits "right next to Fallout and Elder Scrolls" as part of Bethesda's "big three", but that's not really for him to decide, is it?

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What About One Piece | Starfield's design director thinks the sci-fi RPG sits "right next to Fallout and Elder Scrolls" as part of Bethesda's "big three", but that's not really for him to decide, is it?

"It might not be everyone's cup of tea. What is?"

Oct. 6, 2024 Oisin Kuhnke

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The first major expansion for Bethesda’s big space baby isn’t terrible by any means, but it still just feels like more Starfield, for all that that entails.

Oct. 4, 2024 Mark Warren