Our full chat with Embark: How Arc Raiders was saved mid-development, the balancing process, and the possibility of vehicles

Our full chat with Embark: How Arc Raiders was saved mid-development, the balancing process, and the possibility of vehicles

Earlier this month at the 2026 Game Developers Conference, Embark production director Caio Braga gave a talk titled “When your AAA game isn’t fun: the Arc Raiders story of starting over with intent.” PC Gamer spoke with Braga after the talk to answer some questions on our mind: Will Arc Raiders ever have vehicles? What…

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Feature: “Virtua Fighter Really Needs To Run At A Steady 60fps” – Producer Seiji Aoki On Bringing An Iconic Series To Switch 2

“I see this game as the foundational product for the future”. Virtua Fighter isn’t a series you’d generally associate with Nintendo systems, and that’s probably because the closest we’ve had to an entry is Virtua Quest, a GameCube spin-off from 2004 (though we also had a Virtual Console release of Virtua Fighter 2 back in…

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How to extract from Cryo Archive in Marathon

It’s fine and dandy loading into Cryo Archive in Marathon and looting it for all its worth—seriously, there’s high-end loot everywhere—but you actually need to escape for it to count. The Cryo Archive extract system functions very differently from the other maps, where you casually stroll on over to an exfil beacon and beam outta…

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Extraction shooter Sand delayed from March as Ukrainian developer cites ‘a difficult few months’ with ‘severe power outages and air alert disruptions’

Sand: Raiders of Sophie, the PvPvE extraction shooter where you build and drive huge stompy mechanical bases around on a desert planet, “will not be releasing this March” as planned, developer Hologryph announced today. “It’s been a difficult few months for us here in Ukraine,” the developer wrote in a Steam post, “with frequent severe…

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