{"id":773171,"date":"2026-09-17T02:58:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-17T02:58:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/773171\/"},"modified":"2026-09-17T02:58:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-17T02:58:09","slug":"sony-responds-after-pc-games-including-helldivers-2-disappear-in-uk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/773171\/","title":{"rendered":"Sony responds after PC games including Helldivers 2 disappear in UK"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PlayStation says it\u2019s working to resolve an issue that has seen some of its PC games, including Helldivers 2, delisted in the UK.<\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday, players noticed that <a class=\"link-relationship\" title=\"Games &gt; Helldivers 2 [152 articles]\" href=\"https:\/\/www.videogameschronicle.com\/games\/helldivers-2\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Helldivers 2<\/a> and other Sony-published games, including <a class=\"link-relationship\" title=\"Games &gt; Horizon Forbidden West [261 articles]\" href=\"https:\/\/www.videogameschronicle.com\/games\/horizon-forbidden-west\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Horizon Forbidden West<\/a>, had disappeared from the <a class=\"link-relationship\" title=\"Platforms &gt; Steam [2,978 articles]\" href=\"https:\/\/www.videogameschronicle.com\/platforms\/pc\/steam\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Steam<\/a> store.<\/p>\n<p>This has made the games unavailable for purchase, though they remain playable for people who have them in their libraries.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement, <a class=\"link-relationship\" title=\"Companies &gt; Sony Interactive Entertainment [4,701 articles]\" href=\"https:\/\/www.videogameschronicle.com\/companies\/sony\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sony Interactive Entertainment<\/a> told VGC it\u2019s working to reinstate the Steam games.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are aware of an\u00a0issue affecting the availability of select titles on Steam in the UK,\u201d a spokesperson said. \u201cWe are working with <a class=\"link-relationship\" title=\"Companies &gt; Valve Corporation [422 articles]\" href=\"https:\/\/www.videogameschronicle.com\/companies\/valve\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Valve<\/a>\u00a0to\u00a0address\u00a0the issue. We apologize for the inconvenience.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Helldivers was recently added to the <a class=\"link-relationship\" title=\"Platforms &gt; PlayStation [12,606 articles]\" href=\"https:\/\/www.videogameschronicle.com\/platforms\/playstation\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">PlayStation<\/a> Plus games catalog, meaning those with a subscription can access the game on <a class=\"link-relationship\" title=\"Platforms &gt; PlayStation 5 [9,738 articles]\" href=\"https:\/\/www.videogameschronicle.com\/platforms\/playstation\/ps5\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">PS5<\/a> for no additional cost.<\/p>\n<p>The online shooter is one of Sony\u2018s biggest recent hits, <a class=\"link-internal\" href=\"https:\/\/www.videogameschronicle.com\/news\/ps5-hits-59m-as-helldivers-2-breaks-playstations-launch-sales-record\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">becoming PlayStation\u2019s fastest-selling game launch ever<\/a>, with sales \u201cfar exceeding expectations\u201d at 12 million copies sold across <a class=\"link-relationship\" title=\"Platforms &gt; PC [12,952 articles]\" href=\"https:\/\/www.videogameschronicle.com\/platforms\/pc\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">PC<\/a> and PS5 in its first 12 weeks.<\/p>\n<p>Helldivers 2 was released on PS5 and PC in 2024 and later made its way to <a class=\"link-relationship\" title=\"Platforms &gt; Xbox Series X | S [7,929 articles]\" href=\"https:\/\/www.videogameschronicle.com\/platforms\/xbox\/seriesxs\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Xbox Series X<\/a> and S last summer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PlayStation says it\u2019s working to resolve an issue that has seen some of its PC games, including Helldivers&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":773172,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[59,86,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-773171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-gb","tag-technology","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/773171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=773171"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/773171\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/773172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=773171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=773171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=773171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}