Helldivers 2 is coming to Xbox on August 26

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 highest number ever amongst PlayStation video games launched for the PC. The truth is, there have been so many gamers on-line that Sony briefly attempted to mandate PlayStation Community account linking, which set off a wave of adverse evaluations from pissed off players. The coverage was finally reversed.

Within the announcement of the sport’s Xbox launch, Recreation Director Mikael Eriksson stated, “we all know players have been asking for this for a while and we’re so excited to carry extra Helldivers into our sport. We’ve got a lot extra in retailer for the long run months and years – and the extra gamers we now have the extra tales we are able to inform! The struggle for Tremendous Earth has solely simply begun.”

This can be a uncommon occasion of a Sony-published sport coming to Xbox programs, following the MLB: The Show collection. Time will inform if that is simply one other uncommon exception, or the beginning of a brand new pattern by Sony permitting their games to reach more players. 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 might be launched.

Correction, July 3, 2025, 2:02PM ET: This story initially said that Helldivers 2 was a first-party PlayStation sport. Whereas it was printed by Sony Interactive, the corporate would not personal Arrowhead.