Helldivers 2 developers Arrowhead have recently addressed concerns from players about potentially shifting focus away from the game to work on their next project, referred to as "Game 6." This clarification came in the wake of the game's latest major update, the full-scale Illuminate invasion, which
Randy Pitchford, the head of development at Gearbox, has firmly denied that the decision to move up the release date of Borderlands 4 was influenced by other games' launch schedules. Speculation had arisen that the shift might have been due to the release dates of high-profile titles like Marathon b