Helldivers 2 Has Officially Been Delayed To 2024

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Helldivers 2 has received a new trailer in this year’s State of Play, but alongside that, it has also gotten delayed.

Helldivers 2 will be released on February 8, 2024, on PlayStation 5 and Steam. We had reported that earlier this year, when the game was originally revealed, Sony had promised it would be coming this year.

The original Helldivers is a top-down, twin stick shooter, whose main selling point was online co-op with PlayStation Plus. The basic scenario of an elite military unit fighting off an alien invasion gives way to Arrowhead Game Studio’s very refined online co-op gameplay.

Helldivers also has the distinction of having been playable across three generations of PlayStation. Upon its launch in 2015, it was published on PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, PlayStation Vita, and Windows via Steam. It was also designed it such a way that it could enable cross play across all these aforementioned platforms, so that your team could be playing on any of them and be playing together. In other words, the game functioned as a technical showcase for PlayStation, years before they offered PlayStation Plus on PC. It was also one of the very first games PlayStation published on Steam, although it would not quite predict the current era when we can reliably expect Sony’s biggest games to be published on PC a few months after they launch on PlayStation 5.

Helldivers 2 took the original’s premise and leaned harder on the Starship Troopers inspiration in its latest trailer. Whatever Sony has done with this game’s story, it will likely still take a backseat to Arrowhead Game Studios’ focus on pick up and play online co-op.

Helldivers did not receive a native port to PlayStation 5, but can of course be played there via backwards