{"id":1108109,"date":"2026-01-28T17:41:16","date_gmt":"2026-01-28T17:41:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/xPyTPHuDXQMuKegU4E3JFN"},"modified":"2026-01-28T17:41:16","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T17:41:16","slug":"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","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/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\/","title":{"rendered":"Johan Pilestedt is taking a sabbatical from Helldivers 2 after working &#8216;around the clock&#8217; for 11 years, will move on to &#8216;the next Arrowhead game&#8217; when he returns"},"content":{"rendered":"<article>\n<p>Arrowhead boss Johan Pilestedt is taking a break. The chief creative officer, who has been the face of Helldivers 2 through the <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/games\/action\/helldivers-2s-illuminate-invasion-is-the-cherry-on-top-of-one-of-the-best-first-years-a-live-service-game-has-ever-had\/\" target=\"_blank\">ups and downs of its first year<\/a>, will be on a sabbatical from the studio for &#8220;a while,&#8221; and when he returns, he&#8217;ll be working on a different game.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I know a lot of you are going to think &#8216;por qu\u00e9?&#8217; Pilestedt <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Pilestedt\/status\/1884015181895983223\" target=\"_blank\">posted on X<\/a> earlier today. &#8220;Well, while you have enjoyed Helldivers 2 for almost a year, I have been living it since early 2016, and with Helldivers [overall]\u2014its since 2013.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Helldivers 2&#8217;s lengthy development might surprise some fans\u2014the Sony-backed co-op shooter was not on the radar of most PC gamers before its release in February 2025, but the story of Helldivers dates back to the 2015 original, a top-down shooter made at a much smaller scale. Arrowhead spent years adapting the first game&#8217;s core loop\u2014stratagems, bugs, bots, the interactive galactic war\u2014to a grandiose third-person shooter.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;11 years of working &#8216;around the clock&#8217; on the same IP has made me set aside family, friends and my lovely wife&#8230; and myself,&#8221; Pilestedt continued. &#8220;I am going to take some time now to redeem what was lost from all of those that supported me for over a decade.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I am sure my friends at Arrowhead will do their utmost in the meantime to deliver amazing stuff to Helldivers 2.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Back in May 2024, during a stretch of unpopular balance updates and the <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/games\/third-person-shooter\/sony-doubles-down-removing-helldivers-2-from-sale-in-177-countries-and-territories-that-cant-access-psn-while-arrowhead-ceo-says-i-dont-have-the-final-say\/\" target=\"_blank\">PSN sign-in fiasco<\/a>, Pilestedt <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/games\/third-person-shooter\/helldivers-2-developer-arrowhead-games-has-a-new-ceowith-johan-pilstedt-taking-on-a-different-role-to-direct-100-of-my-focus-to-the-game-and-community\/\">stepped aside from his CEO role<\/a> at Arrowhead to focus completely on &#8220;games and the community.&#8221; In the weeks after Helldivers 2&#8217;s surprise Omens of Tyranny update in December, the chief creative officer has been talking about what comes next. Now, it&#8217;s official.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When I&#8217;m back, I will start working on the next Arrowhead game.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>His first order of business as a man on sabbatical? <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Pilestedt\/status\/1884016859676303815\" target=\"_blank\">Participating in a game jam<\/a> with Arrowhead devs and founders. 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The chief creative officer, who has been the face of Helldivers 2 through the ups and downs of its first year, will be on a sabbatical from the studio for &#8220;a while,&#8221; and when he returns, he&#8217;ll be working on a different game. &#8220;I know a lot of you are going to think &#8216;por qu\u00e9?&#8217; Pilestedt posted on X earlier today. &#8220;Well, while you have enjoyed Helldivers 2 for almost a year, I have been living it since early 2016, and with Helldivers [overall]\u2014its since 2013.&#8221; Helldivers 2&#8217;s lengthy development might surprise some fans\u2014the Sony-backed co-op shooter was not on the radar of most PC gamers before its release in February 2025, but the story of Helldivers&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"excerpt-more\"><a class=\"blog-excerpt button\" href=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/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\/\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1108110,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[336],"tags":[748,787],"class_list":["post-1108109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pc-gamer","tag-games","tag-third-person-shooter"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Johan Pilestedt is taking a sabbatical from Helldivers 2 after working &#039;around the clock&#039; for 11 years, will move on to &#039;the next Arrowhead game&#039; when he returns | Arcader News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Arrowhead boss Johan Pilestedt is taking a break. 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