Arrowhead Game Studios

What Arrowhead Game Studios is

Arrowhead Game Studios is a game developer based in Stockholm, Sweden. Its own about page describes the studio as having more than a hundred employees and five shipped titles, and places its offices in Hammarby Sjostad, an inner-city district. The contact page gives the full address on Södermalmsallén in Stockholm. These are the studio's own statements about its size and its location, published after the release of Helldivers 2.

In our database Arrowhead is represented by Helldivers 2. The game is published by Sony Interactive Entertainment, which means the studio developed the title while the platform holder handled publishing and distribution. That split is visible in how the two companies describe the game: the studio's pages present the design and the team, while the platform pages carry the release date and the credits line.

The studio and its work

The studio's site connects its growth to the move from a student project to a company with more than a hundred employees and five shipped titles. Its games page lists the titles it has made available, and its homepage leads with Helldivers 2. There the studio describes the game's co-operative structure, the four-player squad and the option to call in stratagems during a mission, explaining that a Helldiver does not go planetside without backup but decides for themself when to call it in.

Arrowhead also uses its site to point readers elsewhere. The about page directs people to the studio's official Discord for news and updates about the game, and the games page and the contact page repeat the address and the invitation. That pattern is common among developers whose community communication runs through chat platforms rather than a dated news blog, and it explains why the studio's own pages are short.

Helldivers 2

Helldivers 2 is a squad-based third-person shooter. PlayStation's game page for the title gives a release date of 8 February 2024 on PS5, lists Sony Interactive Entertainment as the publisher, and names Arrowhead Game Studios AB as the developer in the copyright line. The same page describes the game as built around co-operative play, with friendly fire permanently enabled so that a squad's own weapons are a constant risk.

The platform page also documents the game's live structure: warbonds that are not time-limited once bought, an in-game currency used to obtain them, and enemy factions that rotate as the galactic war moves. The Steam listing describes the same game from the PC side, including the developer's own content description, which sets out the weapons, the stratagems and the third-person perspective in the studio's own words.

What is officially documented

The official record for Arrowhead is narrow but specific: a location, an employee figure, a count of shipped titles, a game with a release date and a named publisher, and a stated address in Stockholm. Those facts come from the studio and from the platform holder, and both are parties with direct knowledge of the arrangements they describe, which is why they can be quoted without attribution to a third party.

What is missing is any financial detail. The studio does not publish revenue, budgets or sales on its site, and its about page presents the team and its projects rather than results. A figure for how many copies Helldivers 2 has sold would have to come from the publisher or the platform holder rather than the developer, and no such figure appears in the material the studio itself puts out.

Games

• Gauntlet
• Helldivers
• Helldivers 2
• Magicka
• Magicka: Vietnam

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