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 […]

The problems with using in-game voice chat are manifold, but one of those is that someone hearing you nearby might accidentally mistake your pleas for in-game help with pleas for help in meatspace. That appears to have been the case for one ARC Raiders fan, who had the police called on him because he was […]

Last weekend we reported on the sorry state of the 1.0 release for PvPvE extraction FPS Escape from Tarkov, which has struggled under the weight of server problems, matchmaking issues, and heaps of bugs, among other things. As one might expect, this has put Battlestate Games on the back foot as the studio continues to […]