Helldivers 2 will reveal its hotly anticipated Warhammer 40,000 crossover on July 30, Sony has announced. But in the meantime, we have confirmation of one weapon that will be included in the Legendary Warbond.

The brief teaser video, below, shows a Bolt Pistol, lifted straight from the Warhammer 40,000 armory. Bolt Pistols are used by many different factions and units in Games Workshop’s grimdark far future setting, but it’s particularly fitting in the hands of an Astra Militarum (formerly the Imperial Guard) soldier.

Attention, Helldivers.

July 30 has been designated as a date of operational significance. Update your calendar accordingly.

Further briefing to follow. pic.twitter.com/ekfvkBsWFc

— HELLDIVERS™ 2 (@helldivers2) July 23, 2026

Even before the Warhammer 40,000 crossover was announced, fans had spoken about how it would be the perfect fit for Helldivers 2, which sees groups of four soldiers essentially play the role of cannon fodder in the endless galactic war against horrible alien monsters. You can quite easily equate Helldivers’ alien bug race, the Terminids, to Warhammer 40,000’s Tyranids, for example. The Automatons aren’t a million miles away from the mindless mechanical Necrons, either.

Warhammer 40,000 is something Arrowhead is often asked about in interviews, and by that I mean that I have asked the team about it in interviews because I love this stuff. In April last year, I asked Alex Bolle, production director on Helldivers 2, about a potential Warhammer 40,000 collab, and he said there was discussions being had. "Obviously Warhammer 40,000 is something that a lot of guys internally love to death," he said at the time. "So the devs are discussing, the devs are proposing stuff, and the hype is building. So these are discussions internally that we are having. Warhammer 40,000, I can't really tell you. Maybe. Who knows? We'll see!"

Indeed, in 2024, Arrowhead's Johan Pilestedt published an extended list of IPs he “really would love to do a take on," and Warhammer 40,000 was right up there alongside the likes of Aliens, Starship Troopers, and Terminator.

As for what the Helldivers 2 x Warhammer 40,000 Warbond will include, after the Bolt Pistol reveal we can speculate about what else we’ll see. A Chainsword seems like a safe bet, as does the Astra Militarum’s iconic Lasgun. A Boltgun, however, might be a step too far for Helldivers 2 — it’s usually used by the genetically enhanced super soldiers known as the Space Marines, although there are versions of the Boltgun that can be used by standard humans.

As for armor, I wouldn’t be surprised to see Cadian-style Kasrkin and Scion armor sets for the soldiers of Super Earth. Cadia is one of the most famous planets in the Warhammer 40,000 setting, and its people some of the toughest in the Emperor’s human army. Cadia is no more (that’s a whole thing all its own), but its people live on, as do their wargear.

We’ll find out on July 30.

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I really wanted to like Agefield High: Rock the School. It wasn’t shy about wearing its Bully influences on its letterman jacket, and Rockstar sure doesn’t seem interested in a sequel. But six missions in, I think I’m ready to drop out of Agefield High. Bathed in hollow early-aughts nostalgia, it feels like the adolescent hallucination of someone who’s never set foot inside of a suburban American high school. Its faux-punk, juvenile tone felt more like a sauceless ChatGPT redux of American Pie-era comedies filtered through a No More Heroes sidequest than a cheeky, Rockstar-style lampooning of Anytown, USA.

I’ve biked from corner to corner of Agefield, delivering food, fighting bullies, maintaining my GPA, and learning to fit in with my fellow rejects. And after dabbling in as much main and side content as possible, I’m struggling to find anything redeemable about this game beyond a gag. The stuff I saw was unpolished, uninspired, and flat. I don’t see the big-picture stuff improving, even if Agefield High’s rougher edges – namely its buggy gameplay and wonky physics – get sanded down before its rapidly approaching August release date.

Groundhog Day

Agefield feels like it’s about to bubble over with appropriate angst. Adults are stuck in dead-end jobs and loveless marriages, teachers don’t know what they’re doing, the elderly are constantly complaining about “kids these days,” and everyone at your school is shaking the bars of their fluorescent-lit enclosure, ready to get on with life. But compared to some of my favorite coming-of-age comedies, it’s all skin-deep. It doesn’t engage with culture, time, or place in a way that measures up to the movies it’s borrowing from. I was two years old in 2002 and even I can tell you this is a hollow knock-off.

I’d feel insane too if I lived in a town the size of four city blocks and heard the same few lines of dialogue everywhere I go. I didn’t keep a strict count, but I think most kinds of NPCs (divided by age and sex) each got about five lines. Some characters like your mom, the school bully, or specific teachers get their own. I swear I’d heard them all within an hour. I think I’ll lose my mind if I hear another “[sound up]” “[sound up],” or “[sound up].”

Are We on SNL?

That should give you a good understanding of the kind of script Refugium Games are working with. Its derivative ideas and un-cartoonish caricatures offer nothing to set this specific shade of grey apart; each cutscene will leave you sighing and rolling your eyes at its parade of cliches. And what is memorable or noteworthy is bad. At the very least, sometimes it’s funny-bad.

This is all made worse by Agefield High’s dogged attempts to undermine each cutscene with uncanny valley characters, whose faces and mouths move and change just enough to be unsettling, but not nearly enough to be taken seriously. Naturally, this is all framed with some of the worst cutscene camera choices I’ve ever seen in a video game. Nearly every cutscene or mission will start with a close-up of a character’s face that lasts seconds longer than it needs to – every time. And every time, they just stand there, staring blankly, often directly into the camera. It’s hilarious, just not for the reasons the writers want.

Nice Bike

I could forgive poor tone or a bad script for some fun gameplay, but Agefield High cast no such lifeline. I spent most of my time with the demo biking around town. Sometimes I was running from a bully or racing against a clock; other times I was meeting up with my friends in the park. You can do tricks on the bike you earn early on in the game, but I was never really encouraged to take advantage of them aside from a few ramps scattered around town. There’s also a skate park close to the center of town, so I have a feeling the final version of Agefield might lean more into that. If there’s anything redeemable in the chunk I played, it’s this.

The cycling isn’t necessarily amazing, but it’s really the only part of the demo that felt right. Crashes even end with that goofy, GTA-like ragdoll, just with wonkier physics. But every once in a while, failing a mission or getting knocked out would respawn the bike in a place that softlocked me from completing the mission. Luckily, Agefield is filthy with bikes you can pick up should your bike spawn in a bad spot.

Solid (Garter) Snake

When you’re not hell on wheels, chances are you’re sneaking around somewhere you shouldn’t be. Most missions ended with some kind of stealth, in fact. This kind of teen comedy almost begs for some stealth-comedy with its panty raids and teachers’ lounge burglary. Unfortunately, these sections aren’t very polished. There’s always an indicator somewhere on-screen telling you when you’re visible, but I swear I’ve been seen while outside of the clearly broadcast vision cones on your HUD, sometimes even through a wall or on another floor. It’s just frustrating how fast-and-loose this stuff felt. Thankfully, these sections are all pretty short, so slipping up – or getting caught by someone with X-Ray Vision – won’t set you back too much.

But sometimes you’ll get caught and need to fight back. This is by far the most egregious part of the gameplay, and also the most frustrating. The fights I played all went the same way: throw punches while locked onto your target, block a few blows, push your enemy to break their guard, kick a few times, and hope that everything connects. While there is a lock-on, there’s no tracking, so each attack is disjointed from every other action, including movement. So you stop moving while punching or pushing. This breaks any momentum or link between attacks you throw out, causing a lot of punches to whiff even though they look like they’d connect. It’s kind of a miracle of physics that the punches are weightless and the movement is heavy.

Study Hall

Your misadventures contend with a rigorous academic schedule that’s lined up with an in-game clock. English, German, Geography, Math, and Music classes all come with a minigame to complete, each ending with a letter grade based on your performance that determines how much of your allowance you actually make. All of them, except for music, are the exact same multiple choice quiz just with German vocab swapped out for identifying countries on a map or filling in missing letters in a word on a spelling quiz. The minigame for music class, which also gets used in one of the last missions of the demo, is a shoddy Guitar Hero-like rhythm game whose inputs don’t hit with any oomph and generally feel offbeat.

You don’t need to attend class, but missing classes will make it harder for you to earn an allowance, thus giving you less money to spend on new clothes, a haircut, or a snack from the hot dog cart. The tutorial even suggested that you might get the attention of the police if you miss enough classes. If you cut class, it’s probably to check out the other side content that’s equally repetitive. I saw two different chore-like missions: a lawnmowing minigame that’s ripped straight from No More Heroes, and a food delivery minigame which is a great way to earn some extra in-game cash. There are also some one-off sidequests that take you to new parts of town, but they follow the same structure as the main stuff.

Grimacing-Face Emoji

Every inch of Agefield feels grey, flavorless, and flat in a way that makes me wonder if AI was used. That’s not an accusation, to be clear, but it’s at the very least an indictment of what’s being presented. There’s no sense of originality or style like in the games and movies it’s so clearly ripping off. It doesn’t help that some characters bear uncomfortably close resemblance to real-life people, like the old man in town named Clint who will look familiar to any fan of Westerns.

I could see this attaining cult status… but probably more like The Room or Book of Henry than Superbad or Napoleon Dynamite.

A lot of the mechanical wonkiness could potentially be fixed or built upon, but probably not in time for launch, as this game is out next month. I just don’t see its feeble skeleton of Leonardo DiCaprio pointing-level references and unbearably bad writing improving in any meaningful way over the remaining handful of missions. I could see this attaining cult status… but probably more like The Room or Book of Henry than Superbad or Napoleon Dynamite. I have a feeling that fans of the long-sidelined Bully franchise who hoped Agefield High would recapture even a little bit of that classic’s magic will be thoroughly disappointed when Agefield High: Rock The School releases on August 12.

Charlie is a freelance contributor for IGN. You can reach them via Twitter or Instagram at the handle @chas_mke.

While we're all still reeling over the mismanagement of the recent Pokémon 30th Anniversary Celebration set preorders and 151 shambolic drops at The Pokémon Center, let us perhaps return some attention to the recent restocks that are happening at Amazon right now.

Everything is still listed above MSRP, but the retail giant has quickly become one of the most consistent places to find stock that isn't from a dodgy third-party seller, and will actually arrive in decent condition, fast. We've recently seen Pitch Black ETBs and boosters restocked at around market price, and now we're seeing something similar with one of the year's most popular sets so far, Ascended Heroes.

Ascended Heroes Booster Bundles are currently back in stock at Amazon, listed for $95.88. Pricey, I know. It's close to market price, which sits at around $86.24 right now at resale marketplace TCGplayer, alongside a listed median price of $95 at the time of publication.

If you take delivery into account, Amazon is there or thereabouts; it's just down to whether you're willing to pay that much for six Ascended Heroes boosters at either store.

At $95.88, that works out at $15.98 per booster, each containing 10 cards. So that's 60 cards total, for almost $96. Ouch! Still, it's pretty consistent with the rest of the set, which continues to rack up some premium rates on the resale market, such as the Ascended Heroes Elite Trainer Box, which currently goes for around $170-$175.

Yet, no matter how unfortunate it is, this is often the price you have to pay now, even from big retailers like Amazon. But is it worth it? The market price is often dictated by what the majority of people are willing to pay, but only you can decide if this if truely worth your money.

Ascended Heroes Chase Cards

Mega Evolution’s Ascended Heroes expansion quickly became yet another collector-driven Pokémon TCG release, with demand greatly outweighing the supply and maxing out the value of certain cards.

With Mega Evolutions returning in force and Special Illustration Rares pushing presentation to extravagant new heights, the set has created another sharp divide between playable staples and true luxury chase cards.

While not every premium pull is destined for competitive dominance, each of the top ten most expensive cards so far has earned a lofty market price with jaw-dropping artwork, gameplay relevance, pure scarcity, or a combination of the three.

The most valuable card among the Pokémon TCG’s Ascended Heroes expansion, is Mega Gengar ex. Not only is the artwork grippingly chaotic with five menacing, swirling colours, but Gengar’s predatory grin feels alive within the frame, too. Near mint copies of this card currently run for around $1,273.24 market price, so if you pull one, better hold on to it tight.

Pokémon TCG: Best Deals Today

Before I finish off, let's quickly check out the other latest Pokémon TCG deals that are floating around online right now.

The best, and most popular, pick right now is the Pitch Black Booster Bundles for just under $70 to purchase at Amazon, alongside the First Partner Illustration Collection (Series 2) for just under $50, and Chaos Rising ETBs for $80 as well.

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