Don’t be fooled by a fake Joel- Helldivers 2’s game master probably didn’t drop an unreleased vehicle into a random player’s game, but someone did-

The Helldivers 2 community took the latest in a series of surprised gasps this weekend when a video emerged purporting to show Arrowhead game master Joel joining a random player’s game, dropping an unreleased vehicle onto the battlefield, and then leaving so he can “get back to work.”

After Joel’s departure, the remaining players are able to hop into the vehicle and drive around. The clip, shared by a fan account on Twitter that reposts other people’s Helldivers 2 content, has racked up over a million eyeballs in 24 hours.

While it’d be on-brand for Arrowhead to reveal a major new feature by making something randomly appear for players, unfortunately, that’s probably not what’s happening here. Judging by what we already know about vehicles in Helldivers 2, and what little we…

Crashlands 2 crashes into the PC Gaming Show- ‘It’s very Crashlandsy,’ says dev-

It’s been close to eight years since the release of Crashlands, a top-down action-exploration-crafting game about an interstellar truck driver who crash-lands on an alien planet, where she makes friends (and enemies), builds stuff, and sets things right in the world, all in a relentless quest to get back to work. That means the time is just about right for Crashlands 2, which is also a game about an interstellar truck driver who crash-lands on an alien planet and all the rest of it—the same trucker wrecking it on the same planet, in fact. Can you believe this could happen twice?

At first glance, Crashlands 2 looks quite a lot like its predecessor, tarted up with sharper, flashier graphics. But Sam Coster of developer Butterscotch Shenanigans said there’s quite a lot more to …