Pilestedt says the game industry has a "convergence problem," and it won't find sustainable success until it breaks out of it.

Helldivers 2's runaway popularity last year was, in part, due to just how focused it felt—while other games might bombard you from orbit with a silo of microtransactions, features, menus, and stats, ...

Johan Pilestedt, CEO of Arrowhead Game Studios ... This statement stuck out as Helldivers 2, Arrowhead’s hit game, continues to do very well. The gaming industry has faced significant layoffs ...

Helldivers 2 creative director Johan Pilestedt has slammed the current spate of video games industry layoffs as "unnecessarily brutal" and said that companies needed to learn lessons to avoid the ...

Johan Pilestedt, the creative director of Helldivers 2 and CCO of Arrowhead Game Studios, the developer behind the PlayStation game, has responded to claims the PS5 and PC title is a psy-op ...

Arrowhead CEO Shams Jorjani says video game executives should be held accountable for their own bad decisions.

Despite reaching a low user score of 19 percent, Helldivers CEO took inspiration from games like No Man's Sky to regain ...

Many years before Helldivers 2 became a global phenomenon, its director had to argue with his team to develop a design philosophy that he was convinced would make them rich. Speaking at GDC ...

GameSpot may get a commission from retail offers. Helldivers 2 creative director Johan Pilestedt has commented on the current state of the video game industry, saying it's "caught in a vicious ...

Check out how we test and review games here At the Game Developers Conference 2025, Arrowhead CCO, Johan Pilestedt, discussed the ironic and self-aware tone of Helldivers 2. As relayed by PC Gamer ...

Helldivers 2 skilled pre-production, which according to Arrowhead’s Johan Pilestedt, is the reason the game took way more than four years to make. Helldivers 2 update 1.002.200 is now available ...