Paradox Interactive AB (publ) (PDX) Q2 2026 Earnings Call

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WEBVTT 00:00:00.131 -- 00:00:05.414 Hello and welcome to the Q2 Stream 2026 for Paradox 00:00:05.414 -- 00:00:07.095 Interactive with me, Fred Wester. 00:00:07.095 -- 00:00:09.976 And I'm Alex Brycka, the CFO. Welcome, everyone. 00:00:09.976 -- 00:00:12.558 Welcome. Good to have you back. 00:00:12.558 -- 00:00:15.639 So we start rushing through this with my name. 00:00:15.639 -- 00:00:17.844 That's me. 00:00:17.844 -- 00:00:23.306 And starting by saying that this is a solid first half of 2026. 00:00:23.306 -- 00:00:26.547 No big surprises, no 00:00:26.648 -- 00:00:31.470 big things that are upsetting in any way. It's been sort of a typical quarter. 00:00:31.470 -- 00:00:36.772 We release content for... We release nine pieces of content for seven 00:00:36.772 -- 00:00:41.513 of our franchises. The only exclusion is Cities Skylines. 00:00:41.784 -- 00:00:46.648 But however, we see a very positive trend for Cities Skylines 2 since Iceflake Studios 00:00:46.648 -- 00:00:51.832 took over by New Year's. So we see Cities Skylines actually having 00:00:51.832 -- 00:00:56.295 the best sales quarter since release without releasing any new content. 00:00:56.295 -- 00:01:01.339 So that gives us a lot of reason to look forward to the future when we're going 00:01:01.339 -- 00:01:05.243 to release a lot more content for Cities Skylines 2 and for Cities Skylines 1 for that 00:01:05.243 -- 00:01:07.230 matter. 00:01:07.230 -- 00:01:12.036 Crusader Cane 3 and Stellaris launched new expansion passes, and Hard Surviving 4 and 00:01:12.036 -- 00:01:17.082 Age of Wonders 4 were both at the end of their expansion passes, so 00:01:17.082 -- 00:01:23.234 they're going to recharge, as we say now, and starting over with new expansion passes. 00:01:23.234 -- 00:01:28.276 We entered the main li...