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03/31/2026

03/23/2026

Development of ARC Raiders was far more chaotic than players might expect. According to production director Caio Braga, the project went through years of confusion where even the team couldn’t clearly define what the game was. 🎮

⚙️ Early development struggles

• Some developers thought it was a battle royale
• Others described it as a hero looter shooter
• Some even imagined a co-op Shadow of the Colossus-style game

At one point, 120 developers were working on the project with conflicting ideas about its direction.

⚡ Internal conflicts

Different teams were often building completely different visions of the game:

• Weapon designers made guns so powerful they destroyed enemy AI too easily
• UI and UX teams disagreed on how the interface should look
• Internal playtests sometimes felt like playing entirely different games

Braga admitted that many studios would have cancelled the project at that stage.

After years of experimentation, Embark scaled the team down and focused on the strongest elements already built.

That shift eventually led ARC Raiders to become the extraction shooter players know today, turning a chaotic development cycle into one of the industry’s biggest surprises.

03/23/2026

Modern Warfare 2019 is blowing up on Steam after dropping to just $6, even reaching a higher concurrent player count than the current Call of Duty app, which includes Black Ops 7 and Warzone combined.

It just shows how much of a fan-favourite Modern Warfare 2019 still is, and it definitely gets people even more excited for Modern Warfare 4 this year 👀

03/23/2026

Shredders have broken out of Stella Montis and will be making their way to other maps in ARC Raiders. Coming with the Flashpoint update on March 31st.

03/07/2026

ARC Raiders landed in hot water after computer engineer Timothy Meadows discovered the game was silently logging players' private Discord direct messages to a plain text file stored locally on their PC — along with Discord bearer authentication tokens that could potentially allow unauthorized access.

The issue only affected players who had linked their Discord accounts to the game. Embark Studios quickly responded, confirming the Discord SDK had captured more data than intended, while assuring players that no messages were ever transmitted to external servers or accessed by developers.

A hotfix has since been rolled out disabling the problematic logging, with the studio also announcing a deeper audit to prevent similar issues down the line.

03/03/2026

Avalon is coming March 13th!

🗺️ Connected locations and familiar Black Ops POIs
💥 Intense combat zones
☀️ Updated skybox and lowered water levels
📌 Map traversal updates

03/03/2026

NEW CoD Battle Royale announced! Are we excited?

03/03/2026

Live on the purple app!

LIVE - ARC RAIDERS - Quests and Benches!! (DROPS ENABLED)

03/02/2026

Live on the purple app! Expedition imminent!!!

LIVE - ARC RAIDERS - Departure in 3 days! (DROPS ENABLED)