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'Every Game Company' is Doing it? 'Arc Raiders' AI Scandal Explodes, Big Name CEO Suggests Hidden Truth

One should assume "every game company" is using AI, Nexon Co. Ltd. CEO Junghun Lee says. He is asking how companies can survive when “everyone is working with the same or similar technologies," maintaining that “human creativity” distinguishes exceptional games from mediocre ones.

Benzinga

Arc Raiders devs had ambitions for "boss fights in that same arena of Dark Souls, Monster Hunter" but quickly realized the Arc are too unpredictable

Embark Studios wanted "all of that compelling pattern recognition."

GamesRadar

Arc Raiders players exploited the Hidden Bunker so hard that Embark has turned it off entirely

This is why we can't have nice things

GamesRadar

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Former Nexon boss who took a risk on Arc Raiders says "the AAA industry is structurally at its end" and "it’s going to end in more disaster than it has already" without a "serious rewrite"

"How come it was so unobvious that Embark was a great deal for Nexon until about three weeks ago? What does it say about the industry?"

GamesRadar

Former Battlefield devs had "something to prove" with Arc Raiders and The Finals, ex-Nexon boss says, and that's why they succeeded where other veteran-led studios failed

"All this stuff that really matters, where the value is created, is just completely forgotten"

GamesRadar

Embark has confirmed that Expedition bonuses in Arc Raiders are permanent, but that does little to clear up the confusion

Why the mystery?

PC Gamer

The Speranza Watchlist isn't Arc Raiders' answer to evil players—it's just a roleplaying tool for people who want to spice up their games

It's not a hit list, so don't get any ideas.

PC Gamer

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Embark makes free-to-play Arc Raiders sound like a nightmare, says its $40 price let it cut a lot of un-fun crap: "Crafting no longer has timers on it that you have to wait out"

I fear free-to-play Arc Raiders

GamesRadar

ARC Raiders Week 6 Trials (Dec. 1) – How to get three stars

Easier than before.

Destructoid

Where to find laboratory reagents in Arc Raiders

Track down these explosive chemicals.

PC Gamer

The backbone of Arc Raiders, Scrappy the rooster, is based on a real bird who crashed a dev Zoom meeting and was photoscanned in as something "we'll definitely replace later"

All hail Scrappy the crafting king

GamesRadar

Arc Raiders dev answers one big question about what counts toward bonus skill points for Expeditions, but Embark still won't say how much cash you actually need

How much loot you need for how many skill points is still anyone's guess

GamesRadar

Arc Raiders door exploit makes keycards useless, and players demand the banhammer for those using it: "The sooner Embark bans people doing this, the sooner it will stop"

The issue has existed for quite some time now

GamesRadar

Arc Raiders' most dedicated players say "there is not enough content," but others beg to differ: "I sweated at the game 24 hours a day… Why no content?"

Some players say they're running out of things to do

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Arc Raiders was going to be a cross "between Shadow of the Colossus, Left 4 Dead, and PUBG" according to dev, who says Embark initially had no idea "what kind of game loop we were supposed to have"

Shadow of the Arc Raiders

GamesRadar

"If you're trying to send people to Mars, you're going to crash a bunch of rockets. We crashed a bunch of rockets": Arc Raiders devs explain how failed ideas led to one of 2025's biggest hits

Embark Studios scrapped a lot of ideas to find the fun

GamesRadar

Arc Raiders players mourn their beloved Arc killer, the Hullcracker, after Embark nerfs it into the pavement: "No idea why they'd do this"

The Hullcracker recently had its damage dialed down

GamesRadar

Arc Raiders is a hit, but the extraction shooter's pitch didn't impress one of the Embark devs' kids years ago: "Sci-fi game? Very original"

There's no accounting for taste with some children

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How to get the Aphelion blueprint in Arc Raiders

Construct this legendary weapon.

GamesRadar

Arc Raiders update nerfs a gun "capable of outgunning full squads" and may answer a fan who asked Embark to let them show off 600+ rubber ducks: "Your Raider Den has been ducked out"

The Venator has been nerfed, but the duck update feels far more important

PC Gamer

Arc Raiders players are already impatient for more content. Here's 8 things we think the game could do to expand

If you were put in charge of Arc Raiders, how would you plot out its design in 2026?

GamesRadar

As Arc Raiders shows no signs of slowing down, developer Embark confirms it's ending support on PS4 for its previous shooter, The Finals, as it's "focusing our support on current generation hardware"

You can still transfer your progress though

PC Gamer

How to find and kill a Matriarch in Arc Raiders

Even scarier than the Queen.

PC Gamer

I've played 40 hours of Arc Raiders and only just discovered there's a locked room that requires an epic material to open, not a keycard

And it's a great loot route, too.

PC Gamer

Arc Raiders physics don't get better than this one-in-a-million shot of a Queen getting suplexed by a probe

It just works.

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