Strategy Informer has quotes about the future of Arrowhead Game Studios from cofounder Emil Englund, who speaks of their need to separate from Magicka. "Honestly this is really just a break from Magicka," he says of plans for The Showdown Effect. "The one thing really new that we had to do was something completely different from Magicka, and we kinda assumed that this won’t really do as well as Magicka." He also speaks of another unannounced project: "We really want to move on and do other things non-Magicka, we have a third un-announced project in fact that we really want to work on and we’re really excited about it."