Recruitment firm OPM is shutting down

Are the Helldivers 2 servers down? Arrowhead Game Studios’ frantic third-person shooter launched today (February 8) on PC and PlayStation 5, and players have been reporting matchmaking issues and crashes. However, it now also seems that the Helldivers 2 servers are struggling, with players flagging outages. Here’s what we know. 

Rocksteady and Warner's much-disparaged live service superhero snuff fantasy Suicide Squad: Kill The Justice League goes into Deluxe-preorder-only early access today, Monday 29th January, at 9pm, or if you're from the UK or US east coast, Tuesday 30th January at 12am ET and 12 GMT. Non-Deluxe peons get to play it from Friday 2nd February. With just a handful of hours till the initial release we still don't have review code, which is generally a good sign that a publisher thinks the game in question is going to get a mild-to-severe kicking.

There's definitely still a benefit to buying physical games, especially when there are deals like this to be found only days before release on new AAA titles like Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League (or other new titles like Tekken 8). Suicide Squad is down to just £43.96 from trusted seller The Game Collection via eBay right now, which is over £26 off the RRP.

Nexon's medieval fantasy brawler Warhaven is shutting down on April 5, 2024, just six months after it launched on Steam in Early Access.

Nexon's live-service multiplayer Warhaven is shutting down on April 5, 2024, four months after entering global early access.

Nier mobile game Nier Reincarnation shuts down in April, Square Enix has announced.

Games recruitment specialist One Player Mission (OPM) will close down after 26 years.

The free-to-play mobile spinoff Nier Reincarnation, which is set in the same universe as the hugely popular Nier: Automata, is set to end after two and a half years.

A marketing campaign designed to promote recruitment in the British Army using a custom-made Fortnite map looks to have been taken offline.

Development on the rumored Assassin's Creed Black Flag Remake might very well have kicked off late last year.

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Piranha Bytes is on the verge of closure, several industry sources have said. Currently owned by the Embracer Group subsidiary THQ Nordic, the celebrated RPG developer has been in business for nearly three decades.