Helldivers 2, the third-person co-op shooter developed by Arrowhead Sport 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. Actually, there have been so many gamers on-line that Sony briefly tried to mandate PlayStation Community account linking, which set off a wave of damaging opinions from pissed off avid gamers. The coverage was ultimately reversed.
Within the announcement of the sport’s Xbox launch, Sport Director Mikael Eriksson stated, “we all know avid gamers have been asking for this for a while and we’re so excited to deliver extra Helldivers into our sport. Now we have a lot extra in retailer for the long run months and years – and the extra gamers we have now the extra tales we will inform! The combat for Tremendous Earth has solely simply begun.”
It is a uncommon occasion of a Sony-published sport 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 will likely be launched.
Correction, July 3, 2025, 2:02PM ET: This story initially acknowledged that Helldivers 2 was a first-party PlayStation sport. Whereas it was printed by Sony Interactive, the corporate would not personal Arrowhead.
