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Today — 14 May 2026Main stream

ARC Raiders Smashes Past 16 Million Sales in Six Months as Embark Quietly Greenlights Two New Games

14 May 2026 at 13:30

Key art for the game 'ARC Raiders' featuring three characters in futuristic gear alongside the game's title.

NEXON's Q1 2026 earnings report reveals that the third-person extraction shooter game ARC Raiders has now broken the impressive milestone of 16 million units sold in around six and a half months. The game sold 4.6 million units in Q1 alone, reaching 15.5 million by the end of Q1 before crossing 16M as of this report. Needless to say, it is the most successful new product release in the company's history. ARC Raiders, together with new NEXON releases, drove horizontal revenue growth of 188% year over year to ¥59.3 billion (roughly $409 million) in Q1 2026. Moreover, NEXON has obtained an ISBN in […]

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Yesterday — 13 May 2026Main stream

Embark Studios is “Building for the Long-Term” by Cutting ARC Raiders Updates Down to Twice a Year for “More Impactful” Releases

13 May 2026 at 22:00

Three characters in futuristic gear stand against a backdrop with the title 'ARC Raiders' and a colorful striped design.

ARC Raiders was one of 2025's biggest games, with 16 million copies sold across all platforms and, for a time, hundreds of thousands of players diving into the Rust Belt every day on Steam alone. While some of its momentum has waned, developer Embark Studios is looking to address the problems the community has recently had with the game, and has announced a new strategy for how ARC Raiders will evolve going forward. The long and short of it is that Embark is moving away from its previous cadence of updates for ARC Raiders, and that the third-person extraction shooter […]

Read full article at https://wccftech.com/arc-raiders-embark-studios-building-for-long-term-major-changes/

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