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Johan Pilestedt warns that Helldivers 2 took 4 more years than planned because Arrowhead skipped pre-production and dove right in: 'Always do your homework before you start spending millions and millions and millions of dollars in making a game'
By Morgan Park published
NEWS Sound advice, but easier said than done.

Helldivers 2's Johan Pilestedt says developers need to start taking more risks: 'Safe bets are a death sentence for the studios that try to make them'
By Andy Chalk published
news Pilestedt says the game industry has a "convergence problem," and it won't find sustainable success until it breaks out of it.

Arrowhead’s CEO got a call from PlayStation when he said players could save their money and wait to buy Helldivers 2 until the servers were fixed: They ‘asked me what the f*** I’m smoking’
By Justin Wagner published
News It’s said you should always be closing, even on Super Earth.

The United Nations asked Helldivers 2 studio Arrowhead if it'd give a talk on psychological manipulation: ‘Could we brainwash an entire community to fight for a fascist state? … Would we be okay with that? Turns out, yeah’
By Justin Wagner published
News Players’ eagerness in the fight for Super Earth begs the question: are we the baddies?

Helldivers 2 continues its streak of turning missteps into in-game lore: After a major feature was paused for 24 hours, Super Earth says 'nothing out of the ordinary has happened'
By Rich Stanton published
News Now this is how you manage democracy.

A black hole just annihilated a beloved Helldivers 2 planet, and now it's on a direct course for Super Earth
By Morgan Park published
NEWS "ANGEL'S VENTURE EVACUATION WARNING, EVACUATE PLANET" was the planet's last transmission.

Helldivers 2 game master Joel offers a look back on the first anniversary of the galactic war
By Jonathan Bolding published
News "That moment ... proved to us that we're on to something special with the galactic war".

Helldivers 2's latest warbond adds a stratagem I've craved since the galactic war started, a portable hellbomb
By Rick Lane published
News Servants of Freedom detonates on February 6.

Johan Pilestedt is taking a sabbatical from Helldivers 2 after working 'around the clock' for 11 years, will move on to 'the next Arrowhead game' when he returns
By Morgan Park published
NEWS "I am going to take some time now to redeem what was lost from all of those that supported me for over a decade."
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