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Stieg Hedlund was born in Portland, Oregon in 1965 but was raised in the Chicago area. He has worked on many computer and video games in his career as a designer, artist and creative director. As lead designer at Perpetual Entertainment, he now works on MMORPGs with Gods & Heroes slated to release in 2006.

After contributing to and co-running a small but successful comic book during highschool, Hedlund became a professional pen & paper RPG designer in his teens. Hedlund began his career in the electronic entertainment field in 1987 at Infinity Software a small publisher of games for the Macintosh, Commodore 64 and Amiga. He moved on to Koei in 1990, where he was resposible for a number of games including the strategy game Liberty or Death. After working on an unreleased Lord of the Rings-based title for Electronic Arts, Hedlund went to work for the Sega Technical Institute in 1994, where he worked on titles like Die Hard Arcade, Comix Zone and The Ooze.

In 1996, Hedlund went to work for Blizzard North as lead designer. He worked on Diablo II, StarCraft, the Diablo II: Lord of Destruction expansion pack and the original Diablo. Diablo II, released in 2000, remains one of the best-selling PC games of all time in addition to being the recipient of many of the game industry's most prestigious awards.

After leaving Blizzard, Hedlund worked for Ubisoft/ Red Storm Entertainment on games such as Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon 2 and Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Lockdown, before joining Perpetual in 2004.

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