Arrowhead Game Studios

Arrowhead Game Studios
Privately held
Industry Computer and video games
Interactive entertainment
Founder Johan Pilestedt
Emil Englund
Malin Hedström
Anton Stenmark
Robin Cederholm
Headquarters Stockholm, Sweden
Products Video games (See complete products listing)
Number of employees
 ~25 (2014)[1]
Website http://arrowheadgamestudios.com/

Arrowhead Game Studios is a Swedish video game developer, established in 2008 by a group of Luleå University of Technology students.[2] Their first game, Magicka, won an award at the Swedish Game Awards.[3] In 2011 Magicka was released, working with its publishers Paradox Interactive (Magicka 2 is being developed by another developer, Pieces Interactive, alongside Paradox Interactive).[4]

In the following years Arrowhead released The Showdown Effect, a 2.5D multiplayer action game inspired by 80's and 90's action movies[5] and Gauntlet, a co-op dungeon action game.[6] Helldivers was released for PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4 and PlayStation Vita alongside Sony Computer Entertainment America.[7]

Games

The following games were developed/are being developed by Arrowhead:

Title Release year Genre Platform(s) Notes
Magicka 2011 Action-adventure Microsoft Windows Arrowhead's first video game. Released via Steam.
The Showdown Effect 2013 Action Microsoft Windows, OS X
Gauntlet 2014[8] Adventure Microsoft Windows
Helldivers 2015 Action, Shooter PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, PS Vita

Awards

References

  1. ↑ "Arrowhead Jobs". Arrowhead. Retrieved August 17, 2014.
  2. ↑ http://arrowheadgamestudios.com/arrowhead-a-semi-brief-history/
  3. ↑ http://2008.gameawards.se/competition_entries/75
  4. ↑ http://www.magicka2.com/
  5. ↑ http://www.theshowdowneffect.com/
  6. ↑ http://www.gauntlet.com/
  7. ↑ http://community.us.playstation.com/t5/HELLDIVERS/bd-p/HellDivers
  8. ↑ "Gauntlet Steam Page". Steam. Retrieved 19 August 2014.
  9. ↑ Ministra, Ad (2008-05-25). "Swedish Game Awards 2008 Winners". Swedish Game Awards. Retrieved 2010-06-22.

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