Helldivers 2 company wants to be "the new Blizzard or FromSoftware"

Arrowhead Game Studios follows the path of some successful studios that didn’t appear on the mainstream radar. Founded in 2008 by a group of students from Luleå University of Technology in Sweden, the team tried their luck with a few releases in the following years until reaching helldivers 2, of great surprise and success. Today, the perspective is for the future and with ambitious plans, so much so that its creatives think that they could become a renowned company and studio.

Arrowhead wants to be the next FromSoftware or Blizzard

During an interview with Gamesindustry.biz, and in the context of the recent change of command where Johan Pilestedt left the general management, which now passes into the hands of Shams Jorjani, both managers spoke about the expectations that Arrowhead has for the years to come. In this regard, Johan Pilestedt makes it clear that The company is not thinking about any acquisition and is interested in maintaining its independence.. In fact, Its most ambitious plan is to grow at the level of large studios and companies like FromSoftware and Blizzard: “We pride ourselves on being an independent studio. We have to see what the future holds, but there is nothing in the plans where we want to be acquired by anyone. I want to see how high we can fly and with the addition of Shams, we have good potential to realize that future of becoming the next FromSoftware or Blizzard.

Arrowhead’s plan is to grow, but they’re not going crazy with success

For his part, Shams Jorjani, the new general director of Arrowhead, points out that they are very excited about the idea of grow to become a reference for new generationsso much so that there are upcoming developers who want to work there: “the goal of the studio is to make really great cooperative games. We really want to turn Arrowhead into an emblematic studio, where people who want to make these types of games tell themselves that they want to work at Arrowhead.’ When we were growing up, we really wanted to work at Blizzard, it was one of the bucket list places. I think Arrowhead has the potential to be that.”

Finally, Shams Jorjani assures that Despite the success of helldivers 2 They’re not going crazy trying to grow Arrowhead.because they think of an orderly process that responds to the real situation of the company and its projects: “that does not mean that we have to be a company of 500 people. In fact, a company of 500 people is quite painful in many ways. We will see growth, but growth as a means to an end, not as an end in itself. We have no plans to become a public company Any of that shenanigans. Measured growth that allows us to make an amazing game and be a good place. to work”.

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