When we talk about games taking the world by storm, my mind always thinks back to Animal Crossing: New Horizons in the pandemic, or Baldur's Gate 3 reaching a worldwide audience that nobody, not even Larian, could have imagined. While a slightly smaller scale, Helldivers 2 had a similar impact when it launched, in my friendship group at least. We squadded up and got boots on the ground to defeat waves of bug-like Terminids in the Starship Troopers pastiche. But the game is going even bigger this month, as it launches on Xbox and announces a Halo ODST crossover that fans will be ravenous for.
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