Embark are continuing their meteorological experiments in extraction shooter Arc Raiders with a rousing injection of wind. There’s a hurricane coming to the game on February 24th, a new map condition that limits visibility, degrades shields, impedes movement, and makes you suck even more at shooting things. Still, this stormcloud has a few silver linings. With the gale at your back, you’ll naturally move a lot faster. Also, you may find it easier to avoid detection in the open if you disable your shield.

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The single most offputting thing about a game like Arc Raiders, i.e. an extraction shooter, is that every single other person you meet in-game is Schrödinger's asshole. They could be a friend who you share a story or some loot with, or they could mercilessly gun you down at the drop of a hat. It's certainly not for everyone, but in the game's latest update, a new PvE event has arrived encouraging everyone to walk hand in hand together to defeat those big bad bots.

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Since it dropped at the tail end of October, Arc Raiders has shrugged off any potential threats to its firm grip on my gaming time. New seasons of Black Ops 7 and Battlefield 6 have led to brief dabbles with both games, but little more than that. Destiny 2's Star Wars-themed Renegades expansion is still sitting in my library, waiting to be played. Even the addictive nature of cursed slot machine sim Cloverpit couldn't keep me away from Embark's extraction shooter for long. However, over the last week or so, I've started to show signs of Arc Raiders fatigue, which bodes extremely well for an FPS game that, just a few months ago, I thought was doomed: Marathon.

Read the full story on PCGamesN: My love for Arc Raiders is starting to wane, and that plays right into Marathon's hands

Arc Raiders seems to be facing its first major hurdle. It cleared the first potential hazard, as players didn't seem to care that it had used generative AI for NPC voices, despite the fact it made them sound like lifeless robots. But now matches are being plagued by exploits, including duplication glitches and infinite ammo hacks, which threaten to topple the delicate balance of the game and ruin players' experiences. However, developer Embark Studios is taking its time before banning any cheaters.

Read the full story on PCGamesN: After major Arc Raiders exploit ruins games, Embark knows players want "fast action" but is taking its time to stay fair

Embark Studios has just revealed the next update and map condition coming to ARC Raiders, with hurricanes arriving next week on February 24, 2026, in the game's new Shrouded Sky update. The short teaser doesn't show any gameplay, but it does make it clear how disruptive and dangerous the hurricanes will be for raiders who choose to brave the weather while the condition is in effect. A blog post on the ARC Raiders' official website digs further into what raiders will have to deal with, and it's a little more than some high-speed winds. "The climate is damaged and unpredictable, […]

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Embark Studios has revealed that more than one million ARC Raiders players completed their first Expedition Project.

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In a new clip shared on social media, we get a glimpse at what ARC Raiders might have looked like if it were a first-person shooter.

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In new clips uploaded by streamers, a fresh ARC Raiders barricade exploit has been seen, but while it's hilarious, it's pretty useless.

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ARC Raiders design lead Virgil Watkins is teasing some major changes to the game with its next balance update, adjusting both the Kettle rifle and Trigger Nades. The shooter from Embark Studios has been one of the biggest breakout stories in the gaming industry throughout recent months, with the game seeing huge success following its late October launch. ARC Raiders saw player counts on Steam that rivaled mega-popular franchises like Battlefield and Call of Duty after its debut, and has already sold more than 12 million copies. A big reason for that sustained success has been Embark's support for the game.

There are myriad reasons why Arc Raiders not only attracted huge player counts at launch, but has managed to buck the typical trend and sustain them. The biggest, in my view, is how it caters to the most casual of players with elements like its aggression-based matchmaking and free loadout system, while also giving the multiplayer game's most dedicated, high-skill grinders something to aim for with its optional wipes. Known as Expedition Projects, the first took place last month and was an opportunity for top raiders to start afresh, albeit with some additional perks and rewards. However, from speaking with Arc Raiders' design director, Virgil Watkins, I've just learned that its debut wipe was more popular than I anticipated.

Read the full story on PCGamesN: Arc Raiders' first Expedition saw over a million players wipe, but Embark wants to find new ways to "incentivize" resets

Have you ever experienced a moment in a game that's made you think, "That could be a movie?" I'm not talking about a cutscene from The Last of Us or any of Sony's wannabe movie games, I mean when you're getting stuck into one of the best multiplayer games and pull off a trick that's worthy of a Hollywood blockbuster. If you immediately think of taking down a Matriarch in Arc Raiders, you're in luck: Patrick Soderlund, CEO of developer Embark Studios, says that he has received "many" offers to adapt the hit game into a movie or TV show.

Read the full story on PCGamesN: Arc Raiders has had offers for a movie adaptation, but Embark insists it must "be done in the right way"

ARC Raiders is embracing the holiday season with a snowy twist in its latest seasonal drop — the Winterfest / Cold Snap update, and it’s bringing cold-weather chaos, festive events, free rewards, and fresh progression loops for Raiders to dig into. Snow Sweeps the Rust Belt This Winter On 16 December 2025, Embark Studios unleashed…

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In a recent interview, Embark Studios revealed that just over a million players participated in the recent ‘Expedition Project’ for ARC Raiders. This mechanic allows players to reset their accounts at the end of the expedition, giving them the opportunity to start the game afresh. According to the developer, the mechanic will recur every two to three months. Given the game’s reported 12 million units sold, however, one million participants is relatively low. The Expedition Project involves players collecting items and completing tasks to exit the safe zone, with the reward being a new character to start the journey from scratch.

 

The game’s details:

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ARC Raiders is a cooperative third-person shooter where you and your squad of Raiders unite to resist the onslaught of ARC—a ruthless, mechanized threat descending from space.

You play as one of the Raiders, a rogue group of resistance fighters. With the help of a patchwork early warning system, you fight to protect our home against enemies dropping from orbit. ARC is faceless and unfeeling, but no one could accuse ARC of being unresponsive. In fact, ARC responds to resistance with ever-increasing destruction.

Resist

As a Raider, you know that defeating ARC requires more than simply pointing and shooting a gun, and more than one person trying to be a hero. When ARC is around, lone wolves never make it very far.

As underdogs, we need to believe in something bigger than our own strength, in something unapologetically human. That’s why we come together. United amid the unlikelihood of success, what seemed implausible may just become the best course of action. So, by all means, come prepared and plan ahead, but sometimes you just have to wing it.

Jump right into the fray in a free-to-play world.

Scavenge the ruins of the past. Wield tools and gadgets to outsmart the enemy. Use on-the-fly tactics, your surroundings, and physics to your advantage. If you and your squad play well together, one day the stars may again become beacons of hope, instead of omens of oblivion.

Reimagine the Third-Person Shooter – Go beyond simply matching ammo to a weapon. Experience action where combat demands unrehearsed creativity.
Reimagine Cooperation – ARC pursues you relentlessly, but together you can overcome these faceless foes. Fight, flee, and fine-tune, shoulder to shoulder with your squad.

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Seasonal wipes are always a dicey proposition in an extraction shooter. On the one hand, it offers a level playing field for everyone; on the other, seeing all that hard-earned progress effectively whittled away can be demoralizing. For ARC Raiders, Embark Studios put the power in players’ hands, allowing them to voluntarily wipe their progress and begin from zero…with a few bonuses and rewards.

Known as Expeditions, the first began last month when Cold Snap dropped, and it saw a “little over a million players,” according to design director Virgil Watkins. However, the team doesn’t consider the current iteration perfect by any means.

“One of the bigger topics [of feedback] was the requirements for the final stage to get the skill points, and probably going out a bit too late with that information, because we wanted to hold off until we could calibrate it around the actual economy of the player base, rather than trying to guess really early on,” he told PCGamesN. “So then, when we chose the number, which was the five million credits for the full thing, [we set] that as an aspirational goal that some players might achieve. But then I think a lot of players took that as like, ‘Well, now I have to do that to get it.'”

Aside from the above-noted figure, Watkins says that “something close to about 35% or 40% of those players did get the full skill points,” which is also impressive. However, Embark wants to incentivize players to use their hard-earned weapons instead of simply scrounging for spare change when the Expedition deadline approaches.

“We completely acknowledge that it isn’t the most engaging thing to just go for money, [and it has] the potential outcome of disincentivizing using your gear, which is kind of what people look forward to towards the end of a reset cycle. So yeah, we’re looking at revisions on that.”

It also wants to offer “a little more variety” and “incentivize” players, especially for those who haven’t quite reached the requirements (either due to time or other reasons). That’s on top of looking at how those who undertook an Expedition are “reacting to the rewards they got.”

There’s still plenty of time until the next Expedition, so we may see some changes in the coming weeks. While Embark hasn’t outlined the next major update for ARC Raiders, it has discussed plans to better detect and combat cheaters, especially following an uptick in the same over the past few weeks. You can also expect balance adjustments for the Trigger Nade, Stitcher, Kettle, and more, so stay tuned for updates.

The fact that ARC Raiders’ use of generative AI development tools for its creation, particularly for its voice work, is a sticky wicket for many shouldn’t come as a surprise in the age of rising slop tides. Still, Embark Studios CEO Patrick Soderlund is not backing down and continues to defend the decision in an […]

A few years ago, it would have been pretty easy to imagine Helldivers 2 releasing as a free-to-play game. It is a live service game after all, most of those are free-to-play because studios want to reduce the barrier to entry. Instead, it launched as a paid-for, $40 game, a far cry from free, but not the $80-$100 releases we're seeing more and more of. And it's because Arrowhead made the decision to do so that Arc Raiders developer Embark did the exact same thing for their own shooter.

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Right, get ready for some chatter about where the contents of our collective wallets have gone over the past year. Valve's list of the highest-grossing games on Steam in 2025 has emerged from the great mists, and in a nice revelation, features a larger number of fresh releases than last year's ranking. That's alongside all of the moderately to quite old stuff which more folks keep hopping on the train of with every passing 12 month period.

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If you can't resist taking cheeky potshots at your fellow players in Arc Raiders, the shooter's matchmaking can now neatly shuffle you into a session where you're more likely to get a taste of your own medicine. Developers Embark have confirmed that some "aggression-based matchmaking" has been sprinkled into the game's systems as of late, making PvP-prone players a bit more likely to be funnelled towards each other.

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Arc Raiders developers Embark have shed a bit of light on how their looter-shooter changed after shifting away from the free-to-play business model back in 2024. Apparently, it made Arc "drastically easier" to design, in the sense that the Swedish studio felt less pressure to turn players into whales.

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You! Stop trying to break in! Also, while you're at it, stop using quick use item swapping to shoot me faster than you'd otherwise be able to! All of that is yelled by Arc Raiders' latest patch, which sees devs Embark go after a number of pesky exploits and also make piggybacks much less effective.

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