Tag: Embark Studios
News Surprise! The Finals Comes To PS4, PS5 Pro Update Available Now
Lock and Load, contestants
The popularity of The Finals is on the up, with Season 4 breathing a wave of fresh air over the arena. The community's lukewarm response to the previous season seems to have been taken into account, and many of the issues have been rectified. This means that this is the perfect time to jump into The Finals if you haven't...
News ARC Raiders Unveils Promising Extraction Loop in Gameplay Reveal
Go big or go home
We haven't heard much from the Arc Raiders front recently, so we were pleasantly surprised to see a hefty chunk of gameplay emerge in the last few hours. The co-op shooter turned survival extraction game from Embark, the studio behind The Finals, looks to be coming along nicely. In the six-minute gameplay reveal, we get some...
News ARC Raiders Will Compete for Your PS5 Eyeballs in 2025
Extraction shooters are the new meta
ARC Raiders, an upcoming multiplayer extraction shooter from The Finals dev, Embark, will attempt to get out with the goods on PS5 in 2025. Of course, it will need to compete in an increasingly competitive space, and has opted for the premium route, after first flirting with being a free-to-play title. As...
News The Finals Update 1.4.0 Patch Improves Balance, Combats Cheaters on PS5
Merry Patchmas, Yolks!
The Finals is a free-to-play multiplayer shooter that blew up after shadow-dropping at The Game Awards. Developer Embark Studios has released another patch, 1.4.0, wishing Yolks (players) a Merry Patchmas and inviting them to Ho-Ho-Ho-Hop in there this holiday sea
Hands On The Finals Is One of the Most Exciting New Online Shooters in Years
Frenetic team shooter has a ton of promise
If you’re wondering what confidence feels like, try releasing your free-to-play shooter with no warning during The Game Awards, two days after CoD: Warzone's biggest free update in a year. That’s exactly what Embark Studios did at the end of last week with The Finals, and it’s fairly remarkable...
News Surprise! Free-to-Play Multiplayer Shooter The Finals Has Just Released on PS5
Finally
The Finals is now available to download and play for free on PS5. The multiplayer shooter got an open beta test not too long ago, but now the finished game is here and kicking things off with its first season. To recap, The Finals is a free-to-play, multiplayer first-person shooter from Embark Studios and Nexon. In it, teams compete in a...
News The Finals Open Beta Draws 7.5 Million Players, Embark Studios 'Humbled'
Did you make it to The Finals?
The Finals just wrapped up an Open Beta testing session, drawing in in a massive crowd of players over the last week, with over 7.5 million getting in on the darkly comedic action across all platforms. Despite that, the session will not be extended, developer Embark Studios has confirmed, and players must be patient,...
News Multiplayer Shooter The Finals Gets Open Beta, Live Now on PS5
Can you reach The Finals?
Update: The Finals open beta test is now live on PS5, so if you wish to take part, you should be able to find it via search on the PS Store. It requires just under 8GB of free SSD space. The open beta runs from now through to 5th November. Original Story: The Finals is another live service competitor, but one that looks...
News Promising PS5 Shooter ARC Raiders Just Changed Its Entire Genre
Don't see that everyday
The upcoming PS5 shooter ARC Raiders was originally billed as a "cooperative third-person shooter," and we thought it looked pretty rad when it was first revealed. But somewhere along the line, developer Embark Studios straight up switched genres, now marketing the title as a “player-versus-player-versus-environment...
News Free-to-Play Shooter The Finals Is Blowing Up in PC Closed Beta Test, In Development for PS5
Fully destructible FPS is going bang
If you're interested in multiplayer shooters at all, you may have recently started to hear about The Finals. From developer Embark Studios — comprising many ex-Battlefield devs — this is a free-to-play, team-based FPS that's currently in a closed beta test on PC, and it's proving to be very popular already...
News PS5 Robot Shooter Arc Raiders Delayed to 2023
Taking extra time to "expand"
Arc Raiders, the co-op focused robot-blasting game that was first revealed at The Game Awards 2021, has (rather unsurprisingly) been pushed back into 2023. It was originally scheduled for a 2022 release, but we haven't seen anything from it since the aforementioned Geoff Keighley event. Embark says that the additional...
News Arc Raiders Looks Like a Rad Robot-Shooting Co-Op Game, Coming to PS5 in 2022
Follow the rainbow
Arc Raiders looks like it could be a surprisingly stylish ton of fun going by this debut trailer, which combines gameplay footage with some cutscenes. We still don't know a whole lot about the game in terms of structure, but we do know that it's going to be free-to-play, and it's a co-op based experience. It's sprinting onto PS5...
News Former EA Boss Details New Studio, Gives Early Look at Co-Op, Free-to-Play Sci-Fi Title
Embark on something new
Patrick Söderlund, former EA executive who left the publisher last year, has dropped some details on what he's doing right now -- and they make for quite an interesting read. Upon leaving his position at EA, Söderlund created a new studio based in Stockholm, Sweden. The developer is named Embark, and since its inception...