Tag: Embark Studios
News ARC Raiders Dev Killing PS4 Support for Its Previous Game The Finals
Has been available for less than a year
Embark Studios is currently riding high on the success of ARC Raiders, but there will be one casualty along the way: the PS4 version of the developer's previous title, The Finals. The team has shared that the last-gen version of its competitive shooter is being taken offline on 18th March 2026, leaving it...
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...
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...
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 The Finals Gets Ready for Halloween with New Ghoul Rush Mode
Spooky stuff indeed
Season 8 of The Finals is now well into its stride, and this week's mid-season update brings a frighteningly good new game mode, a plethora of spooky rewards, a scarily good store update, and a spread of smaller fixes and improvements – all in time for Halloween. Mid-season update 8.6.0 introduces a new infection-based game...
News The Finals Update Brings New Time-Limited 'Heaven or Else' Game Mode
Heavenly stuff
The Finals has just dropped with a new limited-time game mode as part of its 8.3.0 update that sees you fighting up in the clouds of the afterlife while knocking people to their demise – along with free rewards to earn from it, many of which look pretty heavenly. Known as 'Heaven or Else', this new time-limited mode consists of a...
News The Finals' In-Game Energy Drink OSPUZE Just Became a Real Thing You Can Buy
"A magical explosion of fiction meeting reality"
With the recent release of The Finals Season 8 – along with the Stockholm Grand Major – excitement for the game has been steadily brewing, and Embark doesn't plan on allowing it to simmer down anytime soon. The Swedish studio has just announced a collaboration with the drink brand PXL to create 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 Surprise! The Finals Comes To PS4, PS5 Pro Update Available Now
Lock and Load, contestants
The popularity of The Finals is on the up, with Season 4 breathing a wave of fresh air over the arena. The community's lukewarm response to the previous season seems to have been taken into account, and many of the issues have been rectified. This means that this is the perfect time to jump into The Finals if you haven't...
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 The Finals Update 1.4.0 Patch Improves Balance, Combats Cheaters on PS5
Merry Patchmas, Yolks!
The Finals is a free-to-play multiplayer shooter that blew up after shadow-dropping at The Game Awards. Developer Embark Studios has released another patch, 1.4.0, wishing Yolks (players) a Merry Patchmas and inviting them to Ho-Ho-Ho-Hop in there this holiday sea
Hands On The Finals Is One of the Most Exciting New Online Shooters in Years
Frenetic team shooter has a ton of promise
If you’re wondering what confidence feels like, try releasing your free-to-play shooter with no warning during The Game Awards, two days after CoD: Warzone's biggest free update in a year. That’s exactly what Embark Studios did at the end of last week with The Finals, and it’s fairly remarkable...
News Surprise! Free-to-Play Multiplayer Shooter The Finals Has Just Released on PS5
Finally
The Finals is now available to download and play for free on PS5. The multiplayer shooter got an open beta test not too long ago, but now the finished game is here and kicking things off with its first season. To recap, The Finals is a free-to-play, multiplayer first-person shooter from Embark Studios and Nexon. In it, teams compete in a...
News The Finals Open Beta Draws 7.5 Million Players, Embark Studios 'Humbled'
Did you make it to The Finals?
The Finals just wrapped up an Open Beta testing session, drawing in in a massive crowd of players over the last week, with over 7.5 million getting in on the darkly comedic action across all platforms. Despite that, the session will not be extended, developer Embark Studios has confirmed, and players must be patient,...
News Multiplayer Shooter The Finals Gets Open Beta, Live Now on PS5
Can you reach The Finals?
Update: The Finals open beta test is now live on PS5, so if you wish to take part, you should be able to find it via search on the PS Store. It requires just under 8GB of free SSD space. The open beta runs from now through to 5th November. Original Story: The Finals is another live service competitor, but one that looks...
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 Free-to-Play Shooter The Finals Is Blowing Up in PC Closed Beta Test, In Development for PS5
Fully destructible FPS is going bang
If you're interested in multiplayer shooters at all, you may have recently started to hear about The Finals. From developer Embark Studios — comprising many ex-Battlefield devs — this is a free-to-play, team-based FPS that's currently in a closed beta test on PC, and it's proving to be very popular already...
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...
News Former EA Boss Details New Studio, Gives Early Look at Co-Op, Free-to-Play Sci-Fi Title
Embark on something new
Patrick Söderlund, former EA executive who left the publisher last year, has dropped some details on what he's doing right now -- and they make for quite an interesting read. Upon leaving his position at EA, Söderlund created a new studio based in Stockholm, Sweden. The developer is named Embark, and since its inception...
