Helldivers 2 Creative Director is Taking Time Off Before the Next Arrowhead Game

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Helldivers 2 Creative Director is Taking Time Off Before the Next Arrowhead Game

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January 28, 2025

The creative director of Helldivers 2 and Arrowhead Games has announced that he is taking a sabbatical before starting work on the studio’s next game.

Helldivers 2’s CCO, Johan Pilestedt, recently took to

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(formerly

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) to announce that he is taking some time off. Pilestedt explained that while players started enjoying Helldivers 2 last year, he has worked on the game since 2016 and the Helldivers franchise since 2013. As he worked for 11 years “around the clock” on the same IP, Pilestedt had to sacrifice time with his family, friends, wife, and himself. 

As a result, the Helldivers 2 CCO will take some time off to “redeem what was lost” from those who have been supporting him for more than 10 years. Pilestedt has ensured the community that all the developers at Arrowhead Game Studios will be hard at work to deliver amazing Helldivers 2 content to the players while he’s on sabbatical. And once he returns, work “on the next Arrowhead Game” will begin. 

Pilestedt has also posted an

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since beginning his sabbatical, revealing that the first thing he did was start “a game jam with the most senior devs/founders” at Arrowhead Game Studios. 

In other news, the Helldivers 2 CEO wants A-listers to be violently killed in the upcoming movie, as the director talks about Arrowhead’s involvement with the adaptation. What are your thoughts on the Helldivers 2 creative director taking some time off? Let us know in the comments below or our community forum!

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