What Time Does Helldivers 2 Release on Xbox?
Helldivers 2 is officially launching on Xbox Series X and S on Tuesday, August 26, 2025, with global release times of 1am PT, 4am ET, 9am BST, and 10am CEST. This long-awaited moment isn’t a rumor or another hopeful community rumor—it’s straight from Arrowhead Game Studios and Xbox themselves, with both companies sharing the precise timing on social media and in press materials over the past week. Xbox’s channels have been encouraging recruits to “report for duty” on the 26th, and Arrowhead has confirmed that the Xbox port is arriving with crossplay enabled by default, opening up the galaxy for even larger squads of liberty-loving bug hunters from all three platforms.
There’s no early preload this time—Xbox players will have to wait until the launch window to start their 35GB download, so expect a little patience to be required if your friends are already forming up Strike Teams right at midnight. Still, the hype is well-earned: this marks the first major Sony-published game to march onto Xbox in real time with its now-classic PC and PlayStation player bases. And this time, Arrowhead’s already teasing extra goodies for Xbox fans, including a highly buzzed-about Halo: ODST crossover sparked by their latest trailer’s musical nod; fan speculation has been running wild about what that partnership will bring on day one.
True, there’s a tiny catch: cross-progression isn’t launching alongside crossplay, meaning your Super Earth unlocks and shiny Warbonds won’t leap between consoles and PC just yet—a talking point that’s already sparked debate on Discord servers and comment sections alike. But most fans seem more focused on finally liberating planets with friends on every platform than nitpicking the finer details. As one player in my gaming circle told me, “After months of waiting, I don’t even care about cross-progression, I just want to dump drop pods onto bugs with my Xbox friends and hear them complain about strategy. Again.”
