Developer Arrowhead has announced the first major content update for its PC and PS5 third-person sci-fi shooter Helldivers 2. The Escalation of Freedom update will be released on August 6.
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Johan Pilestedt, the founder of Helldivers 2 developer Arrowhead, is leaving the CEO role to become its new chief creative officer. Shams Jorjani, who previously worked at Paradox, is the new CEO.
It's been a week since Sony decided not to require Helldivers 2 players on Steam to sign up for a PlayStation Network account, but the game is still unavailable to play in over 170 countries.
Sony has reversed its course and will no longer make PC Steam players of its hit sci-fi third-person shooter Helldivers 2 link their Steam account to a PlayStation Network account to keep playing.
Helldivers 2 on Steam is no longer available to buy in 177 countries. That's because signing into a PlayStation Network account is not accessible in those places, and the game will require PSN soon,
Arrowhead's CEO has stated that the developer is working with Sony to find a solution for PC players of Helldivers 2 that, due to their location, cannot create a PlayStation Network account
Sony will soon force new and existing Helldivers 2 PC players to link their Steam accounts to PlayStation Network accounts. That has resulted in the game getting review bombed on its Steam page.
Valve has taken action to quickly remove a number of Steam game listings today that were trying to fool people into thinking they were buying the popular games Helldivers 2 and Palworld.
Developer Arrowhead has raised the concurrent player cap of its hit sci-fi third-person shooter Helldivers 2 to 700,000 ahead of what could be another record breaking period for the game.
Arrowhead's third-person sci-fi shooter Helldivers 2 continued to add more and more gamers on Steam this weekend, with 155,926 concurrent players of this PlayStation Studios game on PC.
Helldivers 2, the sci-fi third-person shooter from developer Arrowhead, has quickly become the most popular PC game published by Sony's PlayStation Studios on Valve's Steam service.
The next first-party game coming from Sony, Helldivers 2, is hitting both PlayStation and PC simultaneously, and today, the official system requirements were announced for the latter platform.