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Embark Banned 15,000 Accounts in One Day — Is Cheating Becoming ARC Raiders' Biggest Problem?

Embark Studios banned 15,000 accounts in a single day at gamescom dev. We look at whether cheating is becoming ARC Raiders' biggest threat to player trust.

Player One · Aug 27

Arc Raiders is getting a new "official" roadmap soon, Embark CEO says, and it'll feature even "more details than we've done in the past"

Embark wants to "make sure that people have more to do" in Arc Raiders

GamesRadar · May 21

Star Wars: The Old Republic's original director hadn't played a single MMO before launching its development studio: 'How the hell did they trust me with this much money?'

"The next day, I created a WoW character."

PC Gamer · May 15

Arc Raiders boss promoted to Nexon chief backs AI push for "redesigning game development" after building a hit "at a fraction of the cost you'd expect for a AAA game"

"Without context, AI is a race to the arithmetic middle where everyone's games look the same," says Nexon CEO

GamesRadar · Apr 1

Arc Raiders boss says Marathon has "done a really good job" fixing things after "heavily criticized" technical test: "That's unusual. So credit to that team"

Embark's not viewing Bungie's FPS as competition, either

GamesRadar · Mar 17

ARC Raiders is substituting AI voices with real actors

More voice acting roles for real people in ARC Raiders.

Dot Esports · Mar 14

Embark CEO says 'a real professional actor is better than AI' after the studio re-records some Arc Raiders dialog with real humans

Embark is not ending its use of generative AI, which it sees "first and foremost as a production tool."

PC Gamer · Mar 14

Arc Raiders is such a huge hit, Nexon has put Embark Studios CEO Patrick Söderlund in charge of everything else too

Söderlund has been named executive chairman of Nexon, heading up "long-term strategy, creative direction, and how Nexon develops games globally."

PC Gamer · Feb 20

'Arc Raiders is almost like a social experiment': Embark Studios' CEO reveals a neurology professor encouraged him to submit the game for scientific testing to study player behaviour

Most gamers should be scientifically studied tbh.

PC Gamer · Feb 13

"'You have no idea what you've built'": Arc Raiders lead says a "prominent professor in neurology" encouraged him to submit the extraction shooter to science

"We may not go that far"

GamesRadar · Feb 11