Tag: Third-person-shooter

Arc Raiders review in progress: An extraction shooter for the masses

Arc Raiders review in…

Arc Raiders makes for a genuinely enjoyable extraction shooter experience, words that I really wasn’t prepared to utter, given…
Arc Raiders punishes players who fail to extract in time by simply dropping a meteor on their heads, but there is one way to survive the blast

Arc Raiders punishes players…

I am a sheep. Stick a timer at the top of my screen, and I’ll be gone way before…
Arc Raiders devs stop players spiralling about unfair ‘gear score’ matchmaking by confirming that they ‘focus on maintaining the split between solos and squads’

Arc Raiders devs stop…

Most games will go through a couple of growing pains as the community gets last-minute nerves ahead of release.…
Arc Raiders’ ‘match journey’ feature is the perfect extraction shooter addition, as it charts my inevitable path to defeat, loss, and regret

Arc Raiders’ ‘match journey’…

Rory Norris, Guides Writer (Image credit: Future) Last week I was: playing tons of Battlefield 6 and even previewing…
After making 1 million sales, Escape From Duckov makes eating s*** worse

After making 1 million…

Duck-themed singleplayer extraction shooter Escape From Duckov is currently one of the biggest games on Steam—particularly in China, where…
Escape From Duckov might look like a parody, but it’s a full-fledged, full-featured singleplayer bottling of extraction shooter juice

Escape From Duckov might…

I thought Escape From Duckov was a bit. The animal-themed parody game is a model with a long history:…
Arc Raiders designer says Marathon’s reception’was a great A/B test’: ‘They made decisions that we didn’t, and vice versa … we could compare and contrast how some of those things shook out’

Arc Raiders designer says…

It might feel like there’s been a shedload of extraction shooters lately, but the genre still seems to crackle…
It got a lot of love, but Arc Raiders ‘was absolutely not ready’ to release after its popular April playtest, says design director: ‘There were some bad bugs’

It got a lot…

Sci-fi extraction shooter Arc Raiders is doing one last public playtest this weekend before its launch at the end…
Don’t count on Arc Raiders ever getting a first-person mode: ‘Once you start being able to put your face right up against an asset, it kind of falls apart’

Don’t count on Arc…

Arc Raiders looks great: My pals at PC Gamer think it’s the most exciting thing to happen to the…
Arc Raiders playtest slams past 185,000 concurrent players on Steam alone

Arc Raiders playtest slams…

The Arc Raiders server slam playtest kicked off today, offering one last free weekend testing session before the game…