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Swedish developer Arrowhead Game Studios (Magicka) has released the third-person shooter game Helldivers 2 on PlayStation 5 and PC, immediately achieving strong results on the latter platform. According to Steam data, Helldivers 2 peaked at 81K concurrent players around five hours ago, surpassing God of War's previous record of 73K for a PlayStation launch.
Helldivers 2 launched on Steam today and unfortunately seems to have got off to a bit of a shaky start network-wise: the reviews are currently «mixed,» and the mood music is that people are enjoying the game but deeply frustrated by connection issues. The studio admits it's in «crisis mode» and at the time of writing has just pushed out the first hotfix.
The original Helldivers was a fun little twin-stick shooter that flew under the radar, but its 3D sequel is proving to be a much bigger deal. On launch day, Helldivers 2 is the top selling game on Steam with a respectable peak of 64,000 concurrent players. Judging by my first hour, it's very fun, but also kinda broken.
Angela Game has released the 1.0 launch trailer for Myth of Empires, the multiplayer war sandbox game slated to go live in a couple of weeks on Steam.
GTA VI was unsurprisingly brought up several times during Take-Two's Q3 2024 earnings call. When an analyst from BMO Capital Markets asked how the publisher and Rockstar would settle on the release date, Take-Two CEO Strauss Zelnick said in response:
Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League is out now - as long as you opted into its early access release and you live in New Zealand where it's now January 30 - but it's already been pulled offline due to a huge bug with story progression.
Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth has become the series' most successful launch on Steam over its launch weekend.
Further details are beginning to leak for AMD's next generation of desktop processors built on the Zen 5 architecture. These new «Granite Ridge» CPUs are currently expected for release in the first half of this year, and we're now starting to see information that looks to add some credence to the earlier rumours referencing the new chips.