Area served Worldwide Number of employees ~25 (2015) Founded 2008 | Products Video games Headquarters Stockholm Type Aktiebolag | |
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Industry Video game industry
Interactive entertainment Founder Johan Pilestedt
Emil Englund
Malin Hedström
Anton Stenmark
Robin Cederholm Website ArrowheadGameStudios.com Video games Magicka, Gauntlet, The Showdow, Helldivers | ||
Arrowhead game studios creates gauntlet with maya and stingray
Arrowhead Game Studios AB is an independent Swedish video game developer, established in 2008 by a group of Luleå University of Technology students.
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- Arrowhead game studios creates gauntlet with maya and stingray
- Gauntlet interview with arrowhead game studios
- Awards
- References
Their first game, Magicka, won the Game of the Year award at the Swedish Game Awards 2008. In 2011 Magicka was released, being published by Paradox Interactive, after a contract with the publisher was signed back in 2009.
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. 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..