the iconic Frogger and Contra series. In 2002, he went to work as Creative Director for Ubisoft/ Red Storm Entertainment on games such as Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon 2 and Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Lockdown, as well as contributing to Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon: Advanced Warfighter. He also spent some time with Oddworld Inhabitants doing foundational work for Oddworld: Stranger's Wrath. Beginning in August 2004, Hedlund signed on with Perpetual Entertainment as Design Director on the Gods & Heroes: Rome Rising MMORPG, officially announced in March 2005. The game was shown at E3 2006 and received several "Best of Show" awards, with particular notice being paid to its innovative "minion" system. Although it was well into “content complete” beta testing by September 2007, the technology behind the game could not be stabilized, and after numerous delays and several rounds of layoffs the game was "indefinitely suspended" in mid-October 2007 even as further stability testing was underway. Hedlund left the company during its ensuing dissolution in the months that followed. Eventually the game got published in June 2011. After leaving Perpetual, Hedlund founded Turpitude an independent game development firm, along with partner Natalie Fay. As the Chief Creative Officer for Turpitude Design, Stieg oversees the team of game designers and producers working on the company's projects. Turpitude would fade into obscurity, and Hedlund would go on to work for nWay Inc. and Zynga. Recognitions and awards IGN named Hedlund as being one of the top 100 game creators of all time (number 62). His games have an average rating of 88%, and have received numerous awards including:Diablo: GameSpot's Game of the Year Award, and No. 1 spot of all PC games.StarCraft: GameSpot's Greatest Games of All Time, Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences Game of the Year, Computer Gaming World Game of the Year, PC PowerPlay's Game of the Year, PC Gamer's Real-time strategy Game of the Year, Games Domain Strategy Game of the Year, GameInformer's 35th Greatest Game of All Time.Diablo II'': Guinness Book of World Records Fastest Selling Computer Game Ever Sold, Interactive Achievement Awards Computer Game of the Year, Interactive Achievement Awards Computer Role Playing Game of the Year, Interactive Achievement Awards Game of the Year, PC Gamer No. 16 "50 Best Games of All Time", PC Gamer No. 82 "Top 100 Games", Computer and Video Games No. 25, "The 101 Best PC Games Ever", GamePro No. 11