Arrowhead Game Studios

Arrowhead Game Studios AB
AB
Industry
Founded 2008
Founder
  • Johan Pilestedt
  • Emil Englund
  • Malin Hedström
  • Anton Stenmark
  • Robin Cederholm
Headquarters Stockholm, Sweden
Area served
 Worldwide
Products Video games
Number of employees
 ~50 (2018)
Website ArrowheadGameStudios.com

Arrowhead Game Studios AB is an independent Swedish video game developer, established in 2008 by a group of Luleå University of Technology students.[1]

Their first game, Magicka, won the Game of the Year award at the Swedish Game Awards 2008.[2] In 2011 Magicka was released, being published by Paradox Interactive, after a contract with the publisher was signed back in 2009.[1]

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.[1] Their most recent game, Helldivers, was published by Sony Computer Entertainment in 2015, first released on PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4 and PlayStation Vita, with a release for Microsoft Windows slated for December 2015, being published by PlayStation Mobile Inc..[1]

Games

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

Awards

  • Magicka won the Game of the Year award at the Swedish Game Awards 2008.[2]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 Hedström, Malin (27 January 2013). "Arrowhead – A semi-brief history". Arrowhead Game Studio. Retrieved 22 November 2015.
  2. 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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