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All the latest ARC Raiders news for 2026: updates, patches, DLC, discounts and events. Fresh game news every day on VGTimes.
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Revenue from the sale of video games worldwide in 2025 will amount to $197 billion. This is 7.5% more than a year earlier, according to Video Games Chronicle, citing analysts from Newzoo.
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December 18, 2025

The developers of ARC Raiders have swiftly released hotfix 1.7.2, which serves as a direct follow-up to the major Cold Snap winter update that launched on December 16. The patch is now available on all platforms, including PC, PS5, and Xbox Series X/S — players only need to restart the client to download it.
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December 18, 2025

The developers of ARC Raiders presented 1 000 premium currency tokens to the players due to the holidays. The bonus is already available to everyone in the shooter client.
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December 18, 2025

The Epic Games Store has launched a massive sale with discounts up to 75%, just in time for the holiday season. The promotion runs until January 8, 2026, featuring hundreds of AAA blockbusters and indie gems.
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December 12, 2025

On social media, under one of Embark Studios’ recent posts, Elon Musk unexpectedly appeared with a rather unusual proposal for improving the shooter ARC Raiders. The billionaire entrepreneur suggested an idea aimed at giving cheaters a taste of their own medicine.
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December 11, 2025

Embark Studios has announced the release date for the major winter update Cold Snap for ARC Raiders — the update will become available on Tuesday, December 16. It will conclude the current roadmap of the shooter and add several new elements, including a weather condition, the Flickering Flames event, a new pass, and fresh missions.
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December 10, 2025

The British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) has published the longlist for the BAFTA Games Awards 2026 — it includes 64 games that will be considered by academy members across 17 categories. The list of contenders for the main prize, “Best Game,” features projects from major studios as well as independent teams.
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December 10, 2025

After its loud October launch, the concurrent player count of ARC Raiders naturally began to decline — according to Steam data, the number of simultaneous players has decreased by roughly 36.8% from its peak. Even so, Embark Studios’ title remains one of the biggest multiplayer games on the platform.
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December 9, 2025

The ARC Raiders community is exhausted: on the “Blue Gate” map, players have discovered yet another critical exploit that lets you clip out of bounds and gun down the entire lobby while remaining completely invulnerable. Over the past few days, social media has been flooded with videos and complaints.
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December 5, 2025

Google has released its lists of the most popular search queries of the year across games, movies, TV shows, and actors. Among video games, ARC Raiders and Battlefield 6 made it into the top searches. As for movies, users most frequently looked up information about Anora and Superman in 2025.
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December 4, 2025

Former Nexon CEO Owen Mahoney is convinced: Embark Studios' success with ARC Raiders and The Finals is the result not of "star resumes," but of the team actually wanting to make something new, not repeat old formulas for investors.
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December 3, 2025

The Game Awards 2025 organizers have launched voting for the Player's Voice category, which will determine the best game of the year according to gamers. In the first round, players need to choose 10 out of 30 games.
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December 1, 2025

Sony has launched the annual PlayStation Blog Game of the Year Awards 2025, inviting players to vote for the standout games of the year. Fans will decide winners across 19 categories, covering everything from Best Character and Soundtrack to Graphics, Art Direction, and Studio of the Year. Voting is open until December 8.
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December 1, 2025

The Embark team revealed that ARC Raiders maps in the release version look completely different from what they were at the start of development. Initially, the game was conceived as pure PvE co-op, and no one "even thought" about PvP — this was stated by design director Virgil Watkins in a new episode of the official documentary series.
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December 1, 2025

The action shooter ARC Raiders was shown in a new episode of the TV series South Park. The proposal for such a collaboration came as a surprise, said Ashley St. Germain, director of marketing at Embark Studio, which developed ARC Raiders.
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November 29, 2025

Embark Studios found a brilliantly simple solution for a bug that allowed players to pass through locked doors without key cards in the shooter ARC Raiders. While the real fix is still in the works, the studio released a "very hot hotfix" — literally.
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November 28, 2025

Recently, an enthusiast from the YouTube channel ModerNik decided to test how much modification rarity in ARC Raiders actually affects weapon effectiveness. The results of his tests were unexpected: cheap "common" mods often give the same effect as expensive rare versions — at a much lower crafting cost.
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November 27, 2025

ARC Raiders fans continue to find new ways to lose — both funny and painful. One player decided to solo fight the Matriarch, the game's main boss, but never made it to the battle. Instead, he accidentally stepped into an abyss during a fight with two "Hornets" and lost equipment worth over 100,000 credits.
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November 25, 2025

The creators of ARC Raiders revealed what the project was conceived as in its early stages — and it differed greatly from the final version. According to creative director Stefan Strandberg, initially the team discussed "some intersection between Shadow of the Colossus, Left 4 Dead, and PUBG."
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November 25, 2025

Despite its success and impressive launch, the shooter ARC Raiders was almost completely ignored at The Game Awards 2025. The game received only one nomination — "Best Multiplayer," where it will compete against Battlefield 6, Elden Ring: Nightreign, Peak, and Split Fiction. For a high-profile release that the entire gaming internet has been talking about in recent weeks, this looks like a seriously underappreciated result.
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November 18, 2025

The live broadcast announcing the nominees for “Game of the Year” at The Game Awards 2025 has begun. You can watch it on YouTube as well as on Twitch. During the event, host Geoff Keighley revealed the nominees across various categories.
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November 18, 2025

ARC Raiders, the extraction shooter from Embark Studios, continues to grow its audience. Yesterday, the game hit a new peak concurrent player count on Steam, showing steady momentum and refusing to slow down even in the wake of Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 and the full launch of Escape from Tarkov.
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November 17, 2025

Valve released the list of October’s top new releases on Steam by revenue. The list includes two free-to-play games — Blue Protocol: Star Resonance and World of Sea Battle.
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November 17, 2025

ARC Raiders rolled out its first major content update yesterday. Titled North Line, it introduces a unique community-driven event called Breaking New Ground, where players must donate large amounts of resources to repair a tunnel and unlock access to the new Stella Montis map.
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November 14, 2025

Organizers of The Game Awards 2025 have announced that the list of nominees for “Game of the Year” and other categories will be revealed on November 17 at 8:00 PM Moscow time. As usual, the ceremony will be hosted by Geoff Keighley. The main event is set for December 11.
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November 14, 2025

A Reddit user known as bior12 shared an unusual experience in ARC Raiders. Normally, a player dies within a minute after being knocked down, but this one managed to crawl across nearly the entire map and successfully evacuate — a process that took about 15 minutes.
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November 13, 2025

Embark Studios has announced the exact release date for North Line — the first major update for ARC Raiders. It will arrive on November 13, two weeks after the game’s launch. Along with the date, the developers revealed key details.
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November 13, 2025

The ARC Raiders community has found a new way to judge who can be trusted during raids — by their outfit. If a player is wearing the black-and-orange Raider skin, they might not live long enough to explain themselves.
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November 13, 2025

In a recent update, ARC Raiders developers introduced the long-awaited duo matchmaking mode, made changes to cosmetic pricing, and granted players a free Raider Deck bundle.
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November 12, 2025

Nexon, the publisher behind ARC Raiders, has publicly defended the use of generative artificial intelligence in game development, stating that “every game company is already using AI.”
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November 12, 2025

ARC Raiders keeps surprising even veteran players. Recently, a PC Gamer writer discovered that the main character can jump onto an enemy drone and essentially cosplay the Green Goblin.
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November 12, 2025

Publisher Nexon has officially confirmed that ARC Raiders has sold 4 million copies. The extraction shooter from Embark Studios launched on October 30 — meaning it hit that milestone in less than two weeks.
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November 11, 2025

While ARC Raiders continues to climb the charts and break player records, Eurogamer has unexpectedly given the game a 2 out of 5, citing the use of AI-generated voice acting instead of human actors as the main reason.
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November 11, 2025

Arc Raiders, the competitor to Battlefield 6, continues to grow its audience and deliver impressive sales. According to the latest data, the action-extraction shooter has set a new peak online record and sold 2.5 million copies.
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November 9, 2025

Embark Studios continues supporting its multiplayer shooter Arc Raiders with the release of patch 1.1.0, which fixes bugs, improves gameplay, and adds several exciting new features. Players are encouraged to check their platforms for the update.
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November 7, 2025
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