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Helldivers 2 CEO says "there would be no Helldivers" without PlayStation, but Arrowhead's next game will be "100% funded by ourselves"

"Game 6 (our next project) will happen the way it will happen thanks to you"

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Helldivers 2 has still got it

Get in, we're going back to war.

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'Helldivers 2' Is Taking The Game To The Last Place You’d Expect

'Helldivers 2's Illuminate will soon invade Super-Earth according to a handful of leaks, bringing the fight to an all-new environment for the first time.

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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 adds "500+ hours" of progression with its big "s**t your pants" update, and Arrowhead's CEO wants to know: "What is the pant situation like?"

"That one off hand joke really really got out of hand," admits Shams Jorjani

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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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"I make one stupid pant s**t joke and it all goes ballistic": Helldivers 2 CEO fears "Reddit did what it always did" after he teased new updates, so now "we better deliver"

Arrowhead already teased there'd be "more exciting news to come" after the recent Warbond announcement

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Helldivers 2 is finally adding a sword, and while I'm not soiling my breeches over it as Arrowhead's CEO decreed, it does look very cool

"I make one stupid pant sh*t joke and it all goes ballistic."

PC Gamer

"Fear not—we are cooking!" Helldivers 2 devs say there's "exciting news to come" and a new Warbond in May as we defeat the Illuminate, which surely means it's about to invade for real and kill us all

Helldivers 2 developer Arrowhead says there's "exciting news to come" and a new Warbond coming in May...but there are fears of a large-scale Illuminate invasion, too.

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Helldivers 2 developer Arrowhead acknowledges that "it's been a while since our last update," but "fear not – we are cooking" as it teases "exciting news to come"

I still have so many Warbonds to complete...

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Helldivers 2 devs "are 100% aware performance ain't great now" but they're working on improvements: "Hopefully in the future we'll be able to add content that has less impact"

"We appreciate the patience until we get back to our usual performance"

GamesRadar

'Helldivers 2': Devs Scramble to Fix PC Performance as Game Buckles Under Too Much Content

"Helldivers 2" suffers major PC performance issues as new content overloads the game. Arrowhead CEO acknowledged that the team was 100% aware of it.

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Helldivers 2 CEO says industry layoffs have seen "very little accountability" from executives who "let go of one third of the company because you made stupid decisions"

"Who among these executives is stepping down? Or slashing their salaries?"

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"Games that get 19% user score do not generally recover": Helldivers 2 CEO reflects on Arrowhead's "summer of pain" and No Man's Sky-inspired redemption arc

Helldivers 2 was at such a low point that Arrowhead CEO Shams Jorjani had to tell PlayStation boss Hermen Hulst "there is nothing we can do in the short term"

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Talking points from the Game Developers Conference 2025 and how they could impact the future of gaming

Where will the games industry be a year from now?

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'Never thought I'd go back' Helldivers 2 players steel themselves to return to the site of its most infamous battle, Malevelon Creek

"They better make Malevelon live up to its name."

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Biggest announcements from the Game Developers Conference 2025

From Helldivers devs potentially speaking at the UN to Netflix's first MMO to a new, industry-encompassing union

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Helldivers 2 boss outlines the single design trick that eventually led to his breakout success: "This works, I think we're gonna be rich someday"

"This 'it could happen' approach to design is super powerful"

PC Gamer

Johan Pilestedt warns that Helldivers 2 took 4 more years than planned because Arrowhead skipped pre-production and dove right in: 'Always do your homework before you start spending millions and millions and millions of dollars in making a game'

Sound advice, but easier said than done.

GamesRadar

Helldivers 2 director says "balance is a myth," and devs shouldn't spend more than 5% of their time on it: "If you balance out all the chaos, you've made an uninteresting game"

Arrowhead's Johan Pilestedt says if you spend all of your time on game balance, "you're an idiot"

PC Gamer

Arrowhead’s CEO got a call from PlayStation when he said players could save their money and wait to buy Helldivers 2 until the servers were fixed: They ‘asked me what the f*** I’m smoking’

It’s said you should always be closing, even on Super Earth.

PC Gamer

The United Nations asked Helldivers 2 studio Arrowhead if it'd give a talk on psychological manipulation: ‘Could we brainwash an entire community to fight for a fascist state? … Would we be okay with that? Turns out, yeah’

Players’ eagerness in the fight for Super Earth begs the question: are we the baddies?

GamesRadar

Despite Arrowhead trying to fix it twice, Helldivers 2 still features a chaotic bug that lets you slide around like a snake, and "it's even more hilarious" after the latest update

Once again, the snake bug has slipped through the cracks

GamesRadar

Helldivers 2 only had 20 devs working on it when development began, but High Command is now over 6 times larger and has continued to expand since launch

The team is now home to around 130 people

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