Helldivers 2 has made headlines for the past two weeks, but as the fight for democracy and liberty spreads all over the universe, there's a swath of gamers who are left on the outside looking. The entirety of the Xbox platform are banned from enlisting in the titular program, perhaps forever excluded from ever fighting for freedom, or are they?
A PlayStation-owned IP not being on Xbox nor Microsoft's popular video game subscription service, Game Pass, isn't surprising, but would you believe us if we told you that there's precedent?
Two years ago, Kojima Productions did the unthinkable and brought Death Stranding to the Xbox Game Pass for PC, otherwise now just referred to as "PC Game Pass.
Much like with the Helldivers IP, Sony owns *Death Stranding -not Hideo Kojima's studio.*This made for an awkward situation where one of the best PlayStation exclusives from a long-time partner came to a rival's subscription service (albeit the PC-exclusive kind).