- 'Magicka scares me', says Helldivers 2's Johan Pilestedt, since it was made at a time where Arrowhead was much smaller—but he'd still like to revisit the series 'at some point' - 1 September 2025
rrowhead's CCO (formerly CEO—and currently on a sabbatical from the game entire ) Johan Pilestedt gave a heartfelt speech to the Helldivers 2 subreddit, recently, thanking them for their ongoing support and welcoming Xbox divers into the fold... Read more.
- Helldivers 2 dev's classic fantasy co-op game is $3, but act fast - 18 March 2024
Before Helldivers 2 , Arrowhead Game Studios made Magicka. Channeling the same sort of satire, this co-op fantasy game went down well in 2011, so if you're looking for another Arrowhead adventure with friends during the Steam Spring Sale, you can't go wrong with the magical isometric adventure that's less than $3, for now at least. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: Magicka Mayhem is a CCG invented by a 10 year old Green Man Gaming 4-Play sale cuts digits off Super Meat Boy and Magicka The Weekly Playlist: the one where Paul battles Magicka's bugs and Rob sends many, many Russians to their deaths
- More than a decade before Helldivers 2, Arrowhead made one of my favourite co-op games, which only remains playable thanks to a fan - 7 March 2024
While Paradox is best known for grand strategy games, and more recently the tumultuous saga of Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2 , back in 2011 it published one of my favourite slapstick co-op romps, working with little-known developer Arrowhead Game Studios. This was Arrowhead's first game, four years before it launched the first Helldivers and 13 years before the all-consuming beast that is Helldivers 2 . The game was Magicka, and it was incredibly silly... Read more.
- Patch 1.9.3.8 - New in-game events! - 16 November 2018
Greetings Magicka Community! As you know by know we've added a few features this year, and we're continuing with that strategy today. The next in-game feature we're launching are in-game events. During an event your mettle will be tested with an single-player challenge available for a limited time. If you choose to take part in the event your result will be added to the leader-board, so that you can brag about your result. And/or marvel at the players at the top of the chart. The first event will launch on Wednesday November 21st 09:00 UTC and end on Friday November 23rd 23:59 UTC As this is a new feature we appreciate your feedback, on the forums, once the first event has come and gone. Let us know what you think and what challenges you'd like to see next. Good luck on the leader-board. ps. Once we get closer to the start of the event, a count-down timer will appear in-game to remind y…
- Patch 1.9.1.10 - 24 September 2018
It's time for another update, this time the team has focused more on bug fixes, we'va also made some features more visible for some players. New Content: New main menu banner Improved New badge for DLC menu Bug Fixes: FIXED - Sometimes the game would crash after attempting to Login to a Paradox Account following the log in/register popup FIXED - Receiving a request time out error while viewing an expanded store image would cause a crash FIXED - Robe ability names could persist between sessions FIXED - Local players were occasionally dropped from a game when multiple players died FIXED - Local players could occasionally not be revived FIXED - Friendship is Magicka achievement would not unlock correctly FIXED - Store featured page occasionally displayed incorrect prices FIXED - When attempting to buy DLC in game with the steam overlay disabled the error popup would not display FIXED - Hel…
- Patch Notes for 1.9.0.2 - 9 August 2018
A new version is upon us as we continue experimenting and fixing bugs. New Content Added: Ice Regent Robe Set Contains: Ice Regent Robe Cold Knife Icicle Staff Shaman Robe Set Contains: Shaman Robe The Badger Healer's Burden Centurion Robe Set Contains: Centurion Robe Valkyrie Spear Protector's Staff Astronomer Robe Set Contains: Astronomer Robe Founder's Saber Founder's Staff Steam Wallet introduced for new robes. Bug Fixes: FIXED - Sometimes the player character wouldn't appear after transitioning from the previous level, leading to defeated state. FIXED - Crash when challenges were started without a selected character. FIXED - Unable to change profile in singleplayer - Thanks Dikharz for highlighting this. FIXED - Pausing the game with damage text could sometimes cause it to stretch.
- Magicka version 1.8.0.8 Patch Notes - 17 July 2018
DLC Demos added for: Vietnam Other Side Of The Coin The Stars Are Left Dungeons And Daemons Dungeons And Gargoyles Info panels for all DLC added
- Magicka version 1.7.1.5 Patch Notes - 3 July 2018
We just released an update, this update includes some more bugfixes and the in-game store. Features: In game store added, with DLC for sale through Steam overlay. Bug Fixes: Crash in chapter 4 Crash in chapter 8 Crash in The Stars Are Left chapter 3 Crash when transitioning to next scene in Vietnam Rescue Mission Added a popup to inform players how to re-enable the steam overlay during the GDPR popup if it has been disabled. This should stop players getting blocked at the start of the game
- Patch 1.6.4.2 is live - 7 June 2018
Thank you for all the feedback and reactions to our previous update to Magicka. As some of you had some issue with the update, we’ve put another patch live that should combat most of the issues that have been reported. Magicka build 1.6.4.2 fix to progression blocker in chapter 9 fix to local multiplayer fix to PVP hot join fixed crash when switching steam accounts fix to Spanish language crash on challenge mode We’ve also added a GDPR popup and some changes related to GDPR Allow Privacy Policy to be read from in game menu Allow Privacy Policy and Terms of Use to be read from Paradox Account Menu Changes to account creation screen
- Patch 1.6.4.0 is live - Now with Hot Join - 28 May 2018
Hey guys, we added Hot join. Today we’re proud to release Patch 1.6.4.0 for Magicka. This patch comes with bug fixes and the option to join your friend’s multiplayer games when they’ve already started. You no longer have to wait for the next chapter to join. The patch also contains: Fixes to several issues related to progress being blocked in the tutorial. Weapons now carry over into the next chapter while playing online. The stability of multiplayer modes have been improved. Host game mode selection defaults to whichever tab is selected. Improved memory management. Several other minor bug fixes. Some of you might wonder why we’re adding new features after a few years, and why we’re doing it to Magicka 1, rather than say Magicka 2? The answer is that we want to learn more about how to improve our games UI and in-game experiences and the best way to do that is to run experiments and A/B-…
- The Humble Care Package Bundle packs Stardew Valley, Her Story and more - 16 November 2017
It seems IGN’s recent purchase of Humble Bundle hasn’t compromised their ability to put together a pack of awesome games. For the next 5 days, The Humble Care Package Bundle offers 27 games–including Stardew Valley, Darkest Dungeon, and Pony Island–for $30 and all of the money is going to emergency relief charities, which makes this one well worth checking out. (more…)
- Have You Played Magicka? - 14 November 2017
Have You Played? is an endless stream of game retrospectives. One a day, every day, perhaps for all time. QFQFSAA + M2. I just made a double steam arcane double lightning beam, and now you re dead. Oh, you were on my team? Crap. Magicka does away with mana and cooldowns, allowing up to four wizards to cast spells as quickly as they can hammer on their keyboards. Eight letters correspond to eight different elements, which can be combined together and cast in different ways to create a bewildering array of spell effects. (more…)
- Paradox sale discounts Stellaris, Cities: Skylines, Tyranny, Crusader Kings 2 - 7 April 2017
Paradox' varied, frequently excellent catalogue of sims and strategy games is on sale on Steam this weekend.  Highlights include the superb Cities: Skylines , true heir to SimCity's throne, which is 68 percent off. The gorgeous, evolving space 4X Stellaris is 40 percent off. Crusader Kings 2 , actually one of the best games in the world, is 75 percent off. Glorious co-op wizard-'em'-up, Magicka , is also 75 percent off. Also! The huge, excellent ode to cRPGs of old, Pillars of Eternity , is 60 percent off. The moody, challenging rop-down shooter Teleglitch is 80 percent off at £1.79 / $2.59. That's a lot of horror for the price of a coffee. If you want to dig into Paradox' back catalogue you can grab Hearts of Iron 3 and the complete Crusader Kings 1 pack for cheap too. Great sale. If you were short of something to sink your teeth into this weeken…
- Up to 75% Savings on All Magicka Games and DLCs! - 20 April 2016
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- Up to 75% Savings on All Magicka Games and DLCs! - 20 April 2016
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- Midweek Madness - Magicka Franchise, Up to 75% Off - 19 April 2016
Save up to 75% on Magicka games during this week's Midweek Madness*! *Offer ends Friday at 10AM Pacific Time
- Magicka 2 Receives Deadly Furious Ice in New "Ice, Death, and Fury" DLC - 15 December 2015
http://i.imgur.com/l3t3Qlr.jpg STOCKHOLM — Dec. 15, 2015 — Paradox Interactive, a publisher of games for chill people, today released “Ice, Death, and Fury” for Magicka 2, a new DLC set which adds all new ways to play with your combustible companions. The DLC, which contains ice, death, and fury in a broad variety of styles and combinations, is available today for Windows, Mac, and Linux PCs, and the PlayStation®4 computer entertainment system. Magicka 2, the critically exclaimed game that lets you spell “success” using electrified healing steam, can be played in brand-new game modes using the new DLC, and also challenges players to new boss fights and new questionable fashion advice with a new set of robes and weapons. To get “Ice, Death, and Fury,” visit https://www.paradoxplaza.com/magicka-2-ice-death-and-fury Icy what we did here in this new video sneak peek: https://www.youtube.com…
- Magicka 2 Receives Deadly Furious Ice in New "Ice, Death, and Fury" DLC - 15 December 2015
http://i.imgur.com/l3t3Qlr.jpg STOCKHOLM — Dec. 15, 2015 — Paradox Interactive, a publisher of games for chill people, today released “Ice, Death, and Fury” for Magicka 2, a new DLC set which adds all new ways to play with your combustible companions. The DLC, which contains ice, death, and fury in a broad variety of styles and combinations, is available today for Windows, Mac, and Linux PCs, and the PlayStation®4 computer entertainment system. Magicka 2, the critically exclaimed game that lets you spell “success” using electrified healing steam, can be played in brand-new game modes using the new DLC, and also challenges players to new boss fights and new questionable fashion advice with a new set of robes and weapons. To get “Ice, Death, and Fury,” visit https://www.paradoxplaza.com/magicka-2-ice-death-and-fury Icy what we did here in this new video sneak peek: https://www.youtube.com…
- Helldivers: Magicka Devs Co-op Shooter Coming To PC - 9 November 2015
With Magicka , Arrowhead Game Studios showed when four well-meaning but inept wizards try to save the world: co-op antics with a whole load of fun and friendly fire. Surely four sci-fi futuresoldiers would fare better? Ha ha . Good news, fans of friendly fire: Arrowhead are bringing their Helldivers over to PC next month. Released on assorted PlayThings in March, it’s a twin-stick shooter with hordes of aliens, mechs, and a great many ‘incidents’ that would require difficult questions and mounds of paperwork. Look at this: …
- Paradox Publisher Weekend On Now! - 1 October 2015
The Paradox Publisher Weekend is on now, with deals up to 80%* off on great games and franchises! Offer Includes: - Cities Skylines - 50% Off - Pillars of Eternity - 50% Off - Magicka - 80% Off - Europa Universalis titles - Up to 80% Off *Offer ends Monday October 5th at 10AM Pacific Time.
