Arc Raiders was one of the biggest games of last year and is still the extraction shooter top dog months after release, but there was a time when things weren't so smooth sailing for developer Embark Studios. In fact, at one point, the game's production became so rocky that the team had to cut almost 100 developers and send them back over to The Finals.
Embark's production director Caio Braga says as much in a panel from the Game Developers Conference 2026, attended by GamesRadar+, fittingly called WHEN YOUR GAME ISN'T FUN. The lead developer recounts a time when the studio "needed that bigger change, and that bigger change is what we called the reset."
