If you've been playing ARC Raiders since it launched in October 2025, then you've seen evolve into a friendlier sort of extraction shooter. One where players have chosen to play a PvE game, only firing their weapons at robotic ARC enemies instead of other Raiders. Now, a new report from Insider-Gaming points to developer Embark Studios testing a first-of-its-kind PvE map condition called 'Rebellion Incident.' The report claims that the map condition is being tested in China, with discussion of the new map condition having been spotted on Chinese social media platforms. Rebellion is one of two map conditions being […]

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ARC Raiders was one of 2025's biggest games, with millions of copies sold and, for a time, hundreds of thousands of players diving into the Rust Belt every day on Steam alone. While some of its momentum has waned, developer Embark Studios is looking to address the problems the community has recently had with the game, and has announced a new strategy for how ARC Raiders will evolve going forward. The long and short of it is that Embark is moving away from its previous cadence of updates for ARC Raiders, and that the third-person extraction shooter will now be […]

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A blind test was conducted by Computer Base, which revealed that gamers often prefer DLSS 4.5 image quality to be superior to FSR 4.1. Out of Seven Games, NVIDIA DLSS 4.5 Wins Six Times in Blind Test Conducted by Computer Base, Suggesting Gamers Believe DLSS 4.5 is Superior to FSR 4.1 NVIDIA DLSS 4.5 is the leading upscaling technology from Team Green, while FSR 4.1 remains the flagship upscaler by Team Red. We have seen how incredibly powerful these upscaling technologies are in terms of visual quality. Unlike previous versions, both offer the best possible visuals through better sharpening, reduction […]

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ARC Raiders is the latest game to add to the list of games that support PSSR 2, the latest generation of PlayStation's upscaling technology. Embark Studios confirmed that tomorrow's Riven Tides update for the extraction shooter will not only add a new map, new map condition, new items, a new enemy, a new event, and new cosmetics, but it'll also bring "meaningful" visual improvements thanks to PSSR 2 that PS5 Pro players will notice "immediately." Announced with a new PlayStation Blog post, members of Embark's technical team praised the improvements afforded by PSSR 2, with engine lead Robert Kihl saying, […]

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The BAFTA Game Awards 2026 are here to round out the last major awards show focusing on games from 2025, and while we're all expecting Clair Obsucr: Expedition 33 to take home the top prize, that's not entirely a foregone conclusion. Is what could be said if Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 didn't win the award for Best Game, but as the awards are now wrapped up, Sandfall Interactive was once again the last team left on stage before the show ended, taking home Best Game and adding another GOTY award to its already impressive supply. But this was not a […]

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You might recall that just two short years ago in February 2024, Disney invested $1.5 billion in Fortnite maker Epic Games, with grand plans to create a persistent Disney universe within Fortnite based on Disney franchises. We've already seen part of this deal bear fruit with the introduction of Disnyeland in Fortnite, and according to a new report from Bloomberg, we're due to get the next fruit in November 2026. And according to the report, it's an incredibly significant release for Epic, because it is meant to mark the beginning of its comeback tour. Epic Games recently laid of 1,000 […]

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Nexon, the parent company behind Embark Studios and its massive PvPvE extraction shooter hit ARC Raiders has long been a supporter of AI and Generative AI (GenAI) entering the game development workflow. It was Nexon's CEO, Junghun Lee, who last year said that players should assume all game makers are using GenAI, which got a rousing rejection from several game developers at the time. So it's no surprise that in the company's latest Capital Markets Briefing, Lee and the company's recently appointed executive chairman (and head of Embark Studios), Patrick Söderlund, both boasted about how Nexon's approach to AI and […]

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As Steam puts its Spring Sale in the rear view, the Epic Games Store has just kicked off its own Spring Sale, giving PC players another chance to grab some great games for heavy discounts, just on a different digital storefront. Some of the most notable sales include titles like ARC Raiders and Borderlands 4, which are 20% off and 30% off, respectively, though some games are as much as 80% off. Nearing that level of discount includes iconic titles like Red Dead Redemption 2: Ultimate Edition, which is a whopping 80% off (it's also 75% off if you just […]

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Embark Studios is about to release its next major update for ARC Raiders, with this one called the Flashpoint Update. It adds a new ARC enemy to the game, two new weapons, a new kind of map condition called ARC Operations, and it all goes live tomorrow, March 31, 2026. ARC Operations are new map conditions, and the first one, Close Scrutiny, seems meant to encourage more PvP action. When Close Scrutiny is live in a map, there's less loot available in that zone, but somewhere lies a new kind of machine called an Assessor. It doesn't seem to be […]

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ARC Raiders developer Embark Studios and one of its co-founders and now former chief content officer Rob Runesson following allegations of sexual misconduct on Runesson's part towards a popular female streamer known for playing Embark's other major live service game, The Finals. First reported by IGN, the allegations initially appeared last month in a livestream, where an anonymous user submitted them to streamer Balise, who read them live on stream. The Google Doc Balise reads through was later recreated and shared online through The Finals community. In the document, the anonymous user who submitted them claims to have been aware […]

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ARC Raiders is one of the biggest successes in the video game industry lately, and the game's story is one that keeps getting better the more we hear about it. Former EA and DICE developers coming together to make the games they wanted to make, taking their time to build ARC Raiders, having the wherewithal to give it time to be worked (and reworked) while still getting another project over the line, before it was ready for prime time this past October. After learning hours ago that Embark almost went back on its initial pivot from PvE to PvPvE back […]

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Embark Studios' smash success of 2025, ARC Raiders, had a long development road that got it to being one of the most popular games on the market today. It was initially meant to be the studios' debut project, before it was delayed, and Embark focused on releasing what would become The Finals first. All the way back in 2021, when it was first announced, it was intended to be a free-to-play co-op shooter where you worked together with other players to take down the giant ARC robots. Less than a year after its reveal at The Game Awards 2021, it […]

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Embark Studios' latest update for ARC Raiders isn't your bog-standard fixes or new content release. Instead, it's an update that the team rushed out the door this morning after a report from tech blogger and systems engineer Timothy Meadows pointed to an incident where two ARC Raiders players' private Discord DMs (direct messages) appeared in a game log file. Per Meadows report, the game's Discord SDK captured private messages between two users and a Discord Bearer token. It was a massive over-extension of the data that Embark collects through ARC Raiders' Discord SDK, an issue that is thankfully now fixed […]

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Marathon, the new first-person extraction shooter from Bungie is days away from launching at the time of this writing. It'll be out on PC, PS5, and Xbox Series X/S on March 5, 2026, but you can play it right now if you want to on its Server Slam Test. So far, the test seems to be going well, at least by its player numbers. On Steam, the test has so far peaked at 143,621 concurrent players, and while we'll see how players feel about the game when the test is done, one thing that's already been called out is that, […]

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Embark Studio's new Shrouded Sky update for ARC Raiders isn't a major expansion or anything, but it almost feels close to that kind of update, because it includes more than a few significant changes. A slew of weapons have been given nerfs to try and better balance PvP play, an element of progression that wasn't benefiting half of the player base is now gone, there are two new ARC threats to take down, and that's before getting to the fact that there's a whole hurricane for players to deal with now. The update is now live, with the full patch […]

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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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When you start your journey in ARC Raiders, certain ARCs, like Rocketeers and Bastion's, can send a chill down the spine of any new Raider. You'll eventually learn how to take these machines down, but there's always something bigger waiting in the wings, and in this new extraction shooter, that 'something bigger' is the Matriarchs. They're the closest thing ARC Raiders has to a boss encounter. You can't take them down yourself (not without some serious luck and know-how), and they're arguably the most deadly machines you'll face as far as the game's PvE elements are concerned. But that hasn't […]

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