Also, it wouldn't be a Helldivers game

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Arrowhead's chief creative officer Johan Pilestedt can well imagine the Helldivers studio developing a videogame that satirises or parodies today's generative AI technology. The game in question wouldn't be a Helldivers project, however, and Pilestedt says it would need to be relatively upbeat, rather than an exercise in feverish despair. This seems like a tall order right now, at least while Tim Sweeney still has access to Twitter .

"AI has been worth parodying since the ‘80s, and I can absolutely see a game where you’re stuck in a world with an AI overlord that’s basically a deity," Pilestedt told me during an interview on the company's future. "But the Automatons already cover our robot enemy needs in Helldivers 2 , so if we went there, it would be a new title, and we’d want to frame it in a quirky, fun way rather than a doom-laden one."

The aim to keep things light is consistent, of course, with how Helldivers approaches satire.…