Topic: arc raiders
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Arc Raiders Shatters Concurrent Player Record Again
Arc Raiders broke its own Steam concurrent player record by surpassing 400,000 users over the weekend, cementing its status as a top competitive game. The game achieved the most successful PvP extraction shooter debut in Steam history, with player counts climbing rapidly from 250,000 to over 416,...
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Arc Raiders Sells 1.5 Million Copies on Steam in 3 Days
Arc Raiders sold over 1.5 million copies on Steam in its first three days, generating an estimated $60 million in revenue for Embark Studios. The game's launch exceeded expectations, causing server queues due to overwhelming player interest and requiring efforts to manage system overloads. Embark...
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Arc Raiders: Why 2025's Top Shooter Means More Extraction Games
Arc Raiders has become the unexpected mainstream hit of 2025, proving a massive audience exists for high-stakes extraction shooters and shifting market expectations away from traditional arena combat. Its explosive success, with over 300,000 daily players, gave it a crucial head start before a wa...
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Save On Arc Raiders For PC - Limited Time Offer Ends Dec 1
Arc Raiders is a highly praised extraction shooter currently leading on Steam, available at a discounted price of $34.39 until December 1 as part of Fanatical's Black Friday promotion. The game features engaging gunplay, creative world design, and challenging endgame content, with reviewers highl...
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Call of Duty Black Ops 7 Beta Bans "Arc Raiders" Chat Mentions
The Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 beta is censoring the phrase "Arc Raiders" in its chat system, which is unusual as it blocks a competing game's title rather than offensive language. Despite the censorship of "Arc Raiders," terms like "Battlefield 6" are not blocked, and the filter only activates wh...
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Arc Raiders Prestige Rewards: All the Goodies Revealed
Arc Raiders introduces a voluntary "prestige" system called the Expedition Project, allowing players who reach level 20 to reset their progress for a fresh start with valuable rewards. During the limited-time event, resetting grants a new character with bonus skill points based on stash value and...
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Shroud Urges Fans to Vote Arc Raiders for Game of the Year
Shroud is mobilizing his large online following to support the multiplayer game Arc Raiders for the 2025 Game of the Year, challenging the single-player favorite Clair Obscur: Expedition 33. He argues that multiplayer gamers, whom he calls a minority, must unite to win, despite later dismissing a...
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Marathon's Playtest Was a "Great A/B Test," Says Arc Raiders Director
The simultaneous playtests of Marathon and Arc Raiders provided an unplanned A/B testing scenario, allowing the Arc Raiders team to compare design choices and player reactions within the same genre. This comparative analysis helped the Arc Raiders developers gain insights into player preferences ...
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Call of Duty's 2025 Downfall: What Happened?
Call of Duty's 2025 release, *Black Ops 7*, ended the franchise's long streak of annual sales dominance due to a poorly received campaign and a significant drop in sales compared to its predecessor. Two major competing shooters, *Battlefield 6* and *ARC Raiders*, successfully captured its audienc...
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2025's Weirdest Games Defy a Single Defining Title
2025 was defined by a remarkable diversity of creative and experimental games, with widespread innovation making it difficult to single out one title as the year's definitive experience. While the award-winning *Clair Obscur: Expedition 33* was a major success, many standout titles like *Blue Pri...
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Shooters Dominate as Pokémon Legends: Z-A Underperforms
Shooter games led revenue and player engagement in Western markets in October 2025, with Battlefield 6 topping revenue charts and Call of Duty titles ranking high in active users. New and established live-service shooters like Arc Raiders and Fortnite performed strongly, highlighting the competit...
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Arc Raiders & 3 Games We're Eager to Revisit
Battlefield 6 provides chaotic, frontline combat fun despite minor issues like cramped maps and bugs, with the author aiming to improve sniping skills. Dispatch presents a narrative-driven adventure with an unexpected romantic subplot, compelling the author to resolve their choices before the fin...
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2025 Game of the Year Shortlist: 11 Contenders Revealed
The 2025 Game of the Year race is exceptionally competitive, with numerous high-quality releases making the selection process challenging for critics and fans. Leading contenders include Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 (Metascore 92) as the favorite, Hades II (Metascore 95) for its refined gameplay, ...
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Summer Game Fest 2025: All the Biggest Announcements
Summer Game Fest 2025 featured major game reveals, including Resident Evil Requiem (2026), Stranger Than Heaven, and Scott Pilgrim EX, showcasing blockbuster sequels and fresh IPs. Highlights included Lego Voyagers for co-op play, Mafia: The Old Country with deeper story d...
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Call of Duty Ditches Back-to-Back Modern Warfare & Black Ops Releases
Activision is shifting its Call of Duty release strategy to move away from consecutive games from the same sub-series, aiming to provide a distinct experience with each annual installment. The change follows mixed reception and internal concerns about franchise fatigue, with the publisher pledgin...
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Steam's First Black Friday Sale Arrives Early, Replacing Autumn Sale
Steam has launched its inaugural Black Friday Sale, replacing the Autumn Sale to create a distinct week-long discount period before the larger Winter Sale in mid-December. The sale features significant discounts on a variety of games, including major titles like Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2 a...
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