Arrowhead Game Studios AB
TypeAB
IndustryVideo games
Founded2008
Founders
  • Johan Pilestedt
  • Emil Englund
  • Malin Hedström
  • Anton Stenmark
  • Robin Cederholm
Headquarters
Stockholm
,
Sweden
Area served
Worldwide
Number of employees
~100[1] (2023)
WebsiteArrowheadGameStudios.com

Arrowhead Game Studios AB is an independent Swedish video game developer, established in 2008 by a group of Luleå University of Technology students studying in Skellefteå.[2][3] The company gradually moved to Stockholm in 2011–2012.[3]

Their first game, Magicka, won the Game of the Year award at the Swedish Game Awards 2008.[4] In 2011 Magicka was released, published by Paradox Interactive, after a contract with the publisher was signed in 2009.[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.[2] Their most recent game, Helldivers, was published by Sony Computer Entertainment on PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, PlayStation Vita, and Microsoft Windows.[2]

As of 2023 the studio employs about 100 people.

Games

Title Genre(s) Publisher(s) Platform(s)
2011 Magicka Action-adventure Paradox Interactive Microsoft Windows
2013 The Showdown Effect Action Microsoft Windows, OS X
2014 Gauntlet Hack and slash, dungeon crawl Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 4
2015 Helldivers Shoot 'em up Sony Computer Entertainment Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, PlayStation Vita
2024 Helldivers 2 Third-person shooter Sony Interactive Entertainment Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 5

Awards

References

  1. ↑ "Arrowhead – The Team".
  2. 1 2 3 4 Hedström, Malin (27 January 2013). "Arrowhead – A semi-brief history". Arrowhead Game Studio. Retrieved 22 November 2015.
  3. 1 2 "Magicka har passerat två miljoner sålda". Norran (in Swedish). 14 October 2016.
  4. 1 2 "Swedish Game Awards 2008 – Profile for entry Magicka". Swedish Game Awards. 2008. Archived from the original on 23 November 2015. Retrieved 22 November 2015.
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