{"id":5338,"date":"2022-08-18T18:25:25","date_gmt":"2022-08-18T18:25:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/2022\/08\/18\/helldivers-2-is-definitely-real-and-probably-announcing-soon\/"},"modified":"2022-08-18T18:25:25","modified_gmt":"2022-08-18T18:25:25","slug":"helldivers-2-is-definitely-real-and-probably-announcing-soon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/2022\/08\/18\/helldivers-2-is-definitely-real-and-probably-announcing-soon\/","title":{"rendered":"Helldivers 2 is definitely real, and probably announcing soon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Another <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/nvidia-leaked-games-list-pc\/\">Nvidia leak<\/a> bears out: 12 seconds of footage from a Helldivers 2 trailer has leaked on Twitter ahead of an official announcement. As sequels go, Helldivers 2 shouldn&#8217;t be a big surprise at this point: developer Arrowhead Game Studios (also the makers of Magicka) hasn&#8217;t released a new game since Helldivers in 2015, and last October Arrowhead tweeted some <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HelldiversGame\/status\/1453120725917831169\">cryptic binary code<\/a> that seemed like a tease for an announcement that never materialized. In other words: it&#8217;s about time.<\/p>\n<p>The first Helldivers was published on PlayStation by Sony, and actually arrived on Steam under Sony&#8217;s banner back in 2015. It was one of only three Sony-published games on Steam, all indies, until Horizon Zero Dawn kicked off the new era of PlayStation games on PC in 2020. Arrowhead <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/helldivers-is-four-years-old-and-still-being-updated\/\">kept supporting Helldivers<\/a> for years, which perhaps explains why the sequel has been so long in coming.<\/p>\n<div class=\"see-more see-more--clipped\">\n<p>Here\u2019s roughly 10 seconds of footage from the #Helldivers 2 trailer, made by Arrowhead Game Studios and published by PlayStation Studios. pic.twitter.com\/6fDG4aHgGI<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DoodMarvelous\/status\/1560301711507472395\">August 18, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"see-more__filter\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"see-more__button-container\"><span class=\"see-more__button\">See more<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>There&#8217;s not much to take away from the Helldivers 2 trailer, which includes only a couple lines of dialogue: &#8220;The aliens are at our doorstep&#8221; and &#8220;Democracy herself hangs in the balance.&#8221; A bit of disclaimer text does confirm the game is coming to PlayStation 5, and there&#8217;s no mention of PC in the brief snippet that made its way to Twitter. If Sony follows its recent playbook we&#8217;ll likely see Helldivers 2 on PC, but we might be waiting awhile for a port.<\/p>\n<p>PC Gamer&#8217;s Morgan Park was a big fan of the co-op shooting in Helldivers, especially its supply drop system that required punching in d-pad codes mid-fight to call down ammo and powerups. You could also instantly squash your teammates with airdrops if they weren&#8217;t paying attention, something he hopes Helldivers 2 maintains.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[#item_image]Helldivers 2 is definitely real, and probably announcing soon<!-- wp:html --><\/p>\n<p>Another <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/nvidia-leaked-games-list-pc\/\">Nvidia leak<\/a> bears out: 12 seconds of footage from a Helldivers 2 trailer has leaked on Twitter ahead of an official announcement. As sequels go, Helldivers 2 shouldn&#8217;t be a big surprise at this point: developer Arrowhead Game Studios (also the makers of Magicka) hasn&#8217;t released a new game since Helldivers in 2015, and last October Arrowhead tweeted some <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HelldiversGame\/status\/1453120725917831169\">cryptic binary code<\/a> that seemed like a tease for an announcement that never materialized. In other words: it&#8217;s about time.<\/p>\n<p>The first Helldivers was published on PlayStation by Sony, and actually arrived on Steam under Sony&#8217;s banner back in 2015. It was one of only three Sony-published games on Steam, all indies, until Horizon Zero Dawn kicked off the new era of PlayStation games on PC in 2020. Arrowhead <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/helldivers-is-four-years-old-and-still-being-updated\/\">kept supporting Helldivers<\/a> for years, which perhaps explains why the sequel has been so long in coming.<\/p>\n<div class=\"see-more see-more--clipped\">\n<p>Here\u2019s roughly 10 seconds of footage from the #Helldivers 2 trailer, made by Arrowhead Game Studios and published by PlayStation Studios. pic.twitter.com\/6fDG4aHgGI<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DoodMarvelous\/status\/1560301711507472395\">August 18, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"see-more__filter\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"see-more__button-container\"><span class=\"see-more__button\">See more<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>There&#8217;s not much to take away from the Helldivers 2 trailer, which includes only a couple lines of dialogue: &#8220;The aliens are at our doorstep&#8221; and &#8220;Democracy herself hangs in the balance.&#8221; A bit of disclaimer text does confirm the game is coming to PlayStation 5, and there&#8217;s no mention of PC in the brief snippet that made its way to Twitter. If Sony follows its recent playbook we&#8217;ll likely see Helldivers 2 on PC, but we might be waiting awhile for a port.<\/p>\n<p>PC Gamer&#8217;s Morgan Park was a big fan of the co-op shooting in Helldivers, especially its supply drop system that required punching in d-pad codes mid-fight to call down ammo and powerups. You could also instantly squash your teammates with airdrops if they weren&#8217;t paying attention, something he hopes Helldivers 2 maintains.<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:html --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":5339,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[20],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5338"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5338"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5338\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}