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Brendan Lowry

ARC Raiders dev is making 2 new games fueled by the "financial security" of the extraction shooter's success — "We can live for a long time on the money"

Arc Raiders Game Awards.

The PvPvE retro-futuristic extraction shooter ARC Raiders has been a gargantuan success for developer Embark Studios, with the game remaining a best seller and one of the most-played games across Xbox, Steam PC, and PS5 since it launched in late October last year. Just this week, estimates had it crossing two huge milestones, and it's barely lost any players at all in the past four months.

To say that the title has performed well would be an understatement — and according to Patrick Söderlund, former CEO of DICE and the current CEO of Embark, its dominance in the gaming market has brought the development team significant "long-term security."

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