Helldivers 2, the third-person co-op shooter developed by Arrowhead Recreation Studios, is lastly coming to Xbox on August 26. The sequel to the 2015 top-down shooter was launched for PlayStation 5 and Home windows in early 2024 and helps cross-platform play.
After launch, Helldivers 2 was an enormous success, promoting over 15 million copies and reaching 450,000 concurrent gamers on Steam, the highest quantity ever amongst PlayStation video games launched for the PC. The truth is, there have been so many gamers on-line that Sony briefly tried to mandate PlayStation Community account linking, which set off a wave of unfavorable opinions from pissed off players. The coverage was ultimately reversed.
Within the announcement of the sport’s Xbox launch, Recreation Director Mikael Eriksson stated, “we all know players have been asking for this for a while and we’re so excited to carry extra Helldivers into our recreation. We’ve a lot extra in retailer for the longer term months and years – and the extra gamers we now have the extra tales we will inform! The battle for Tremendous Earth has solely simply begun.”
It is a uncommon occasion of a Sony-published recreation coming to Xbox programs, following the MLB: The Present sequence. Time will inform if that is simply one other uncommon exception, or the beginning of a brand new pattern by Sony permitting their video games to succeed in extra gamers. Gamers can pre-order digital copies of each the usual version and the Tremendous Citizen Version for Helldivers 2 now. It is unclear if a bodily copy of the sport might be launched.
Correction, July 3, 2025, 2:02PM ET: This story initially acknowledged that Helldivers 2 was a first-party PlayStation recreation. Whereas it was revealed by Sony Interactive, the corporate does not personal Arrowhead.