Helldivers 2 is coming to Xbox on August 26

Sony Interactive’s 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 amongst PlayStation video games launched for the PC. In truth, there have been so many gamers on-line that Sony PlayStation Community account linking, which set off a wave of adverse evaluations from annoyed avid gamers. The coverage was ultimately reversed.

Within the of the sport’s Xbox launch, Recreation 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. We’ve a lot extra in retailer for the longer term months and years – and the extra gamers we have now the extra tales we are able to inform! The combat for Tremendous Earth has solely simply begun.”

It is notable that this marks solely the second time that Sony will publish one in every of its first-party titles on Xbox, after . Time will inform if that is simply one other uncommon exception, or the beginning of a brand new development by Sony permitting their . 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.