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The Latest Breaking News from Arrowhead

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"

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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.

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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"

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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.

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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?

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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

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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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'Helldivers 2's Armor System Could Get a Major Rework, But Execution Errors Might Pose Risks

Arrowhead Game Studios hints at a major "Helldivers 2" armor rework, but this could also mean that potential balance issues in customization may arise.

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Arrowhead reveals the Helldivers 2 ideas left on its cutting room floor, from 5-player squads to low-gravity planets and a whole new armor system

I'd quite like to see floating Divers some day

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Helldivers 2 continues its streak of turning missteps into in-game lore: After a major feature was paused for 24 hours, Super Earth says 'nothing out of the ordinary has happened'

Now this is how you manage democracy.

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Helldivers 2's Galactic War resumes as Arrowhead fixes its broken liberation rates, and High Command insists anyone who saw anything weird "may be suffering from Illuminate mind-influence"

"Nothing out of the ordinary has happened in the past 24 hours," High Command declares

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Helldivers 2 says the Galactic War is on hold because a bug was making it too easy, and the devs don't have an ETA for a fix (UPDATE: It's fixed)

Due to the emergence of a new bug, Helldivers 2's Galactic War has been put on ice.

Windows Central

Sweet liberty, a Helldivers 2 update "is breaking the Galactic War" so now the whole thing is paused, but good news: "We are not going to revert any of the damage done by this"

"You will still be able to play Helldivers 2, but you cannot make any contributions to liberating planets or advancing the War"

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Helldivers 2 Game Master Joel apparently isn't as evil as we thought: the commander-in-pain's "personal favorite" community moment is the time players helped raise money for real-life sick children

You're not so bad, J.O.E.L.

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Another Helldivers 2 collaboration is already in the "early stages" after the sci-fi shooter crossed over with Killzone

Arrowhead teases what's next

Windows Central

I can't stop using Helldivers 2's best new weapon, and it just got even better in a new update patch

A new Helldivers 2 patch has made its best new weapon even better, but also nerfed its new fan-favorite secondary.

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Helldivers 2's Fallout-grade Ultimatum mini nuke has been nerfed, but maintains its "core identity as a powerhouse" because the devs are "huge fans of big booms booming big"

It's thankfully just as strong as before

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Helldivers 2 game master Joel offers a look back on the first anniversary of the galactic war

"That moment ... proved to us that we're on to something special with the galactic war".

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Helldivers 2 CEO praises players for their "brilliant" DSS strategy, but follows up with a grave threat: "J.O.E.L. is out to get you now"

The DSS is under control

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Arrowhead CEO says Games Workshop 'would love' a 40K Helldivers 2 crossover, 'but time and resources are finite and we've got our hands busy'

For the Emperor of Democracy! Oh, and mankind, too.

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Helldivers 2 CEO says Warhammer 40k owners "would love a crossover," but "time and resources are finite and we have our hands busy"

Arrowhead have a lot going on right now

GamesRadar

Despite shifting gear to Arrowhead's next game after a sabbatical, studio CEO clarifies that Helldivers 2 creative lead Johan Pilestedt will "absolutely still be involved"

"The vast majority of Helldivers is a team effort - it's not one Jesus figure"

PC Gamer

Arrowhead CEO reassures Helldivers 2 players in the wake of Johan Pilestedt's sabbatical that if they can keep the game 'going for 10 years, we will'

"We'll support it to hell and back."

GamesRadar

Arrowhead CEO assures Helldivers 2 fans the online shooter will stay live "as long as people play" it: "If we can keep it going for 10 years we will"

Helldivers 2 isn't going offline anytime soon

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