HELLDIVERS™ 2 News

Arrowhead Game Studios’ Helldivers 2 continues to expand with fresh content, as the team unveils a new Illuminate threat and updates to the Superstore in defence of Super Earth.

A major update has landed on the battlefields of Helldivers 2. A new post on the PlayStation Blog has warned players of looming Illuminate forces spreading across the galaxy, and it’s up to Super Earth’s finest to hold the line. Patch 01.003.000 is now live on both PC and PlayStation 5, introducing more dangerous Illuminate enemies, significant changes to the Superstore, and new weapon customization options for the more style-conscious Helldiver. Arrowhead Game Studios has also released an official trailer for the patch, which can be viewed below.

Since being introduced as a threat to the Super Earth way of life, the Illuminate have grown in both numbers and variety. Helldivers 2 has issued a Galactic Emergency, alerting all Helldivers to the expanding Illuminate scourge. After several warnings... Read more

When Helldivers 2 developer Arrowhead suddenly rolled out its mysterious Station-81 teases and livestream late last week, a lot of us assumed it'd very quickly lead to something big happening in the Galactic War. Well, it's now a fresh week and players are still battling to solve the ARG, but at least they've come up with some interesting theories.

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UPDATE (09/05/25, 11:20 AM BST): This tease looks to be all about cracking codes ARG-style, with the stream updating as players on the Discord server solve them and enter different commands into the "s81-input" channel that's been added to the server, alongside an output one that's providing responses. As of right now, the livestream has moved past a stage of initial boot-up code entering to comuting byte ingresses, with a "primary directive" to come, which we assume might be an actual in-game order.

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Helldivers 2 is, very obviously, a game where you roleplay as space fascists. Like, the game explicitly treats you as fodder for a war against various supposedly evil species all in the name of colonising other planets. It's not subtle! But it's also silly as hell, so the shooter more or less gets away with it. Arrowhead just announced a new warbond though, and I'll be honest: the new outfits are probably the most fascist looking yet.

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Helldivers 2's lastest Warbond has just arrived. It's dubbed Masters of Ceremony, is going for what in my eyes is a very World War One-ish look, and has earned fairly mixed reviews from players at first glance.

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