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ARC Raiders moves to slower larger updates as it crosses over 16 million sales

By Liam Squires-Hand, 4 days ago

Embark Studios / Nexon are slowing down on updates to ARC Raiders to address concerns from players, and make bigger updates - as it crossed a massive milestone.

The Flashpoint update for ARC Raiders has lots of the good stuff

By Liam Squires-Hand, 31 Mar 2026

ARC Raiders just launched the major Flashpoint update and it includes a whole bunch of new content, along with long-requested additions.

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ARC Raiders replacing some AI voices, CEO says "a real professional actor is better than AI"

By Liam Squires-Hand, 16 Mar 2026

ARC Raiders is still one of the most popular games around right now, and thankfully some of the generative AI voices are getting replaced.

Oh dear - ARC Raiders was logging your private Discord chats

By Liam Squires-Hand, 5 Mar 2026 [updated]

Here's a reminder that when you connect up various accounts - you may end up just increasing the risk of your private data going somewhere else.

ARC Raiders latest update adds a Solo vs Squads mode, long-term Trophy Display project and lots more

By Liam Squires-Hand, 27 Jan 2026

While it may not yet be the extra content many players are hoping for, the latest ARC Raiders update overall sounds pretty great actually to pull me back in.

Marathon from Bungie is out March 5th - likely unplayable on SteamOS Linux

By Liam Squires-Hand, 20 Jan 2026

Halo and Destiny developer Bungie confirmed that Marathon will be launching March 5th, but it will most likely be unplayable on SteamOS Linux.

ARC Raiders gets a huge v1.7.0 free update with a new map condition, new event, skill tree resets and more

By Liam Squires-Hand, 16 Dec 2025

Embark Games have been cooking, with ARC Raiders v1.7.0 out now that brings quite a lot to the popular extraction shooter - so time for another run.

ARC Raiders is now Steam Deck Verified

By Liam Squires-Hand, 21 Nov 2025

Valve recently published a Steam Deck Verified rating for the smash-hit extraction shooter ARC Raiders. I decided to see if it deserved the rating.

Embark confirm "Duo prioritized matchmaking" for ARC Raiders and lowered store prices

By Liam Squires-Hand, 12 Nov 2025

Embark Studios have confirmed some recent changes to ARC Raiders, including a highly requested change for Duos to have a bit more fun with it.

ARC Raiders has seriously exciting gameplay that has firmly hooked me in

By Liam Squires-Hand, 5 Nov 2025

ARC Raiders is the new hotness in town and thanks to Embark Studios enabling Proton support for Easy Anti-Cheat, I've been putting hour after hour into it.

The extraction shooter ARC Raiders is out and appears to work on Linux

By Liam Squires-Hand, 30 Oct 2025

ARC Raiders from Embark Studios has released today and even though it has anti-cheat, it still appears to run just fine on Desktop Linux.

Escape From Duckov is silly, entertaining and worth grabbing if you don't mind the grind

By Liam Squires-Hand, 29 Oct 2025

A single-player extraction shooter with ducks? Escape From Duckov is quite silly, but it works and most importantly it's entertaining to play.

Anti-cheat looks like a no-go on Linux / SteamOS and Steam Deck for Arena Breakout: Infinite

By Liam Squires-Hand, 12 Sep 2025

Arena Breakout: Infinite releases soon from Morefun Studios and sadly, this is yet another online multiplayer title that will not work on Linux / SteamOS.

Hunt: Showdown 1896 broken on Linux / SteamOS and Steam Deck due to Easy Anti-Cheat

By Liam Squires-Hand, 5 Aug 2025 [updated]

Here we go again? Hunt: Showdown 1896 is a popular extraction shooter from Crytek that's now broken on Linux / SteamOS and Steam Deck due to Easy Anti-Cheat.