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Arrowhead Game Studios

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Arrowhead Game Studios AB is a Swedish video game development company, established in 2008 by a group of Luleå University of Technology students.

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Johan Pilestedt and Emil Englund, studying Luleå University of Technology in Skellefteå, lead the development of their first game, later released as Magicka, which won the Game of the Year award at the Swedish Game Awards 2008.[2][3][4] In 2011, Magicka was released, published by Paradox Interactive, after a contract with the publisher was signed in 2009.

After the development, the team decided on planning their next games and intended to ban crunch.[3] The company gradually moved to Stockholm in 2011–2012.[2] In the following years, Arrowhead developed The Showdown Effect, a 2.5D multiplayer action game inspired by 1980s and 1990s action movies, for which they stuck with Paradox Interactive to publish it in 2013, and Gauntlet, a co-op dungeon action game, which was published by WB Games in 2014.

In 2015, Arrowhead developed Helldivers, which was published by Sony Computer Entertainment for PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, PlayStation Vita, and Windows. A sequel, Helldivers 2, was first teased in 2021 and released in 2024 by Sony Interactive Entertainment for PlayStation 5 and Windows. On 22 May 2024, Johan Pilestedt announced that he had stepped down as CEO and hired Shams Jorjani, a longtime business associate to succeed him. Pilestedt assumed the role of chief creative officer (CCO) in order to fully involve himself in game development.[5]

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  • Hedström, Malin (27 January 2013). "Arrowhead – A semi-brief history". Arrowhead Game Studio. Retrieved 22 November 2015.

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