Industry NewsArc Raiders' Steam concurrent count has cratered and recent reviews flipped to Mixed — but the game has sold 16 million copies and Embark is still patching it every two weeks. The scary chart isn't the real story. The content gap might be.
GamingThirty percent of Arc Raiders players focus on PvE. They want a dedicated mode. They're wrong — and Riven Tides explains why.
GamingArc Raiders' final Season 3 update brings a coastal map, a new aerial boss, and Beachcombing. The more important story is what Embark quietly changed about Expedition 3 — and what those changes reveal about the first two.
Game DevelopmentThree AAA live-service launches in April 2026 — Pokémon Champions, Crimson Desert, and Marathon — are testing whether the industry's standard playbook for recovering from a rough launch can actually work at this scale.
GamingEmbark Studios revealed the full Flashpoint content drop arriving March 31. The Assessor, Vaporizer, Canto SMG, Dolabra energy shotgun, and a Scrappy feeding system headline the update. We break down every feature and ask the hard question: is this enough to reverse a 50% player count decline?
GamingEmbark Studios finally confirmed the Flashpoint update for March 31. It's the third Escalation update with new enemies, weather, and Scrappy changes. But with a 50% player count drop since launch and Marathon knocking on the door, is one content update per month enough to keep raiders coming back?
Industry NewsEA cut staff across all four Battlefield studios five months after the franchise's biggest launch ever. The reason? A 90% player count drop, a $400M+ budget, and an impossible 100 million player target that even DICE devs said was unrealistic.
GamingBungie launched Marathon at $40, then slapped on $15 skin packs, a battle pass with zero earned premium currency, and a premium currency gap designed to force overspending. The backlash was immediate. Here's what happened.