Helldivers 2 director shuts down rumors that the studio has been acquired by Sony

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Shocking absolutely no one, Helldivers 2's game director has confirmed that developer Arrowhead Game Studios is not being acquired by Sony.

Yesterday, March 5, Twitter users began speculating that Arrowhead was on the cusp of being acquired by Sony, seemingly stemming from various NeoGAF and Reddit forum posts. Helldivers 2 game director and Arrowhead CEO Johan Pilestedt quickly and definitively quashed the speculation with the tweet below, putting the entire thing to bed.

This is the first I hear of this... And that's a good indication that it's fake.Also, very old logo.March 6, 2024

Yes, the fact that this is the first the studio head is hearing of his studio potentially being acquired is a very good indication that the entire thing is fake. Elsewhere, Pilestedt added that the logo used above for Arrowhead is a "really shitty old logo from 2008 or so when we just started the studio."

In fact, earlier this week before the entire silly speculation first kicked into gear, Pilestedt took a moment to remind everyone that Arrowhead is a firmly independent game developer, via the two tweets below. Arrowhead is owned, but it's owned by the very developers that first founded the company itself over 15 years ago.

I mean... We are owned, but only by the founders (including me) of the studio.March 4, 2024

Let this be a very good reminder not to believe everything you read on the internet. It's also a good reminder not to speculate about potential acquisitions like they're fantasy football transactions - these are studios potentially comprised of hundreds of developers, who probably get a little bit nervous when folk start promoting baseless rumors about their company being acquired online.

In other Helldivers 2 news, Arrowhead recently confirmed that the Helldivers 2 mechs are coming soon, after unveiling the EXO-45 Patriot Exosuit yesterday. We've seen and heard rumors of the gigantic mech over the past few years, and some players even got the towering vehicles working in