Tag: Arc Raiders
News ARC Raiders Adds Duo Matchmaking, Reduces Cosmetic Prices After Player Backlash
Every little helps
ARC Raiders has only been out for a couple of weeks, but developer Embark Studios is already responding to community feedback. In an update on the game's website, Embark has announced a couple of changes to the popular extraction shooter, and it's good news all-round. Firstly, the game has now implemented duo matchmaking,...
News ARC Raiders Is a Confirmed Live Service Hit as Sales Top 4 Million, Player Count Rockets
Suited and looted
Studios take risks with live service releases, but when they actually stick, they tend to be big. And things are looking rather rosy for ARC Raiders right now. As confirmed by both developer Embark Studios and parent company Nexon, the extraction shooter has smashed through 4 million sales since its launch at the end of last...
Guide Arc Raiders: How to Solve Harvester Puzzle and Earn Great Loot
Harvester puzzle location and how to solve it
With the explosive release of ARC Raiders, everyone is searching for the best ways to get their hands on the best loot, and fast. This Arc Raiders guide will reveal how to solve Harvester puzzle and earn great loot. Arc Raiders Harvester Puzzle: Finding The Harvester: The ARC Harvester event...
Poll What Review Score Would You Give ARC Raiders?
ARC your run
ARC Raiders really seems to have stuck the landing, and we'd be very interested in hearing what you think of Embark's extraction shooter. Earlier in October, Battlefield 6 was the headline act for multiplayer gaming. EA's longstanding series was back with a bang; it got great reviews and it sold like crazy. But it did feel as though...
News As ARC Raiders Takes Off, Developer Embark Defends Its Use of AI Tools
"There's no shortcut to making great games"
You'll have no doubt heard about ARC Raiders, an online multiplayer extraction shooter that's currently taking the gaming world by storm. With big player numbers and universal critical acclaim, it seems the game is a hit — but that doesn't mean it hasn't come under some scrutiny. Developer Embark...
News Arc Raiders to Be Packed Full of More Content Before the Year Is Over
Roadmap for the rest of 2025 revealed
ARC Raiders has made a strong start to life in its 1.0 state, following a series of promising alpha tests and betas. Team Embark isn't taking the rest of the year off after the full launch, though, as it's shared a surprisingly strong roadmap that covers just the final two months of the year. This month, a free...
Review ARC Raiders (PS5) - A Triumph in Multiplayer Immersion
See you topside, Raider
ARC Raiders is easily one of the best multiplayer games currently on PS5. This sophomore release from Swedish developer Embark Studios manages to balance all the hardcore elements of an extraction shooter while making it accessible, cinematic, immersive, and, most of all, just damn good fun. ARC Raiders is set in a...
News PS5 Extraction Shooter Arc Raiders Is Looking Like a Hit as Servers Immediately Struggle
Raid unready
You know an online game's got potential when its servers seemingly crumble the minute they go live. That's what's happening with Arc Raiders right now. The new extraction shooter has just landed on PS5 (alongside Xbox and PC), and players are struggling to squeeze into any matches. And that's if they manage to get past the initial...
Guide Arc Raiders Release Times: When Can You Start Playing?
All the Arc Raiders release times in major time zones
Providing welcome competition to Battlefield 6 and Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 in 2025 is extraction shooter Arc Raiders, from The Finals studio Embark. Every pre-release beta has seen the experience gain more popularity and an increase in quality, so the release becomes hotly anticipated. This Arc...
News Arc Raiders Wants You to Play into the PS6 Generation and Beyond
Embark sees it as a 10-year game
Releasing later this week after years of promising tests and betas, Arc Raiders is potentially a title you will play more on the next-gen PS6 than the current PS5. Rumours suggest Sony is preparing for a new console in 2027 or 2028, and Arc Raiders studio Embark is going big with its next project by seeing it as a...
News Arc Raiders Wants You to Break Its Servers Before PS5 Launch
Final beta test set for 17th-19th October
Two weeks before its PS5 launch, Arc Raiders developer Embark wants its servers slammed in a final beta test to make sure it can offer the best possible experience to players for the full release. With no sign-up or pre-registration required, the Arc Raiders server slam takes place from 17th to 19th...
News Arc Raiders Finally Extracts a PS5 Release Date in October 2025
Check out the new trailer
Developer Embark has at last announced a release date for Arc Raiders, its sci-fi extraction shooter coming to PS5. The game is scheduled to launch on 30th October, 2025. The date comes via a new trailer, a cinematic video that sets the scene for the post-apocalyptic world in which dangerous metallic entities roam the...
Preview Arc Raiders Could Be the Definitive Extraction Shooter on PS5
Heads on a swivel
Arc Raiders is an extraction shooter that wants you to pay attention. It wants you to scan the horizon and really listen to its soundscape, and that makes it one of the most exciting multiplayer games heading to PS5 this year. We've had our eyes on Arc Raiders since its announcement back in 2021. However, once developer Embark...
News ARC Raiders Unveils Promising Extraction Loop in Gameplay Reveal
Go big or go home
We haven't heard much from the Arc Raiders front recently, so we were pleasantly surprised to see a hefty chunk of gameplay emerge in the last few hours. The co-op shooter turned survival extraction game from Embark, the studio behind The Finals, looks to be coming along nicely. In the six-minute gameplay reveal, we get some...
News ARC Raiders Will Compete for Your PS5 Eyeballs in 2025
Extraction shooters are the new meta
ARC Raiders, an upcoming multiplayer extraction shooter from The Finals dev, Embark, will attempt to get out with the goods on PS5 in 2025. Of course, it will need to compete in an increasingly competitive space, and has opted for the premium route, after first flirting with being a free-to-play title. As...
News Promising PS5 Shooter ARC Raiders Just Changed Its Entire Genre
Don't see that everyday
The upcoming PS5 shooter ARC Raiders was originally billed as a "cooperative third-person shooter," and we thought it looked pretty rad when it was first revealed. But somewhere along the line, developer Embark Studios straight up switched genres, now marketing the title as a “player-versus-player-versus-environment...
News PS5 Robot Shooter Arc Raiders Delayed to 2023
Taking extra time to "expand"
Arc Raiders, the co-op focused robot-blasting game that was first revealed at The Game Awards 2021, has (rather unsurprisingly) been pushed back into 2023. It was originally scheduled for a 2022 release, but we haven't seen anything from it since the aforementioned Geoff Keighley event. Embark says that the additional...
News Arc Raiders Looks Like a Rad Robot-Shooting Co-Op Game, Coming to PS5 in 2022
Follow the rainbow
Arc Raiders looks like it could be a surprisingly stylish ton of fun going by this debut trailer, which combines gameplay footage with some cutscenes. We still don't know a whole lot about the game in terms of structure, but we do know that it's going to be free-to-play, and it's a co-op based experience. It's sprinting onto PS5...
