EDWIN EVANS-THIRLWELL × ARC RAIDERS

Every piece Edwin Evans-Thirlwell has written about ARC Raiders.

18 articles spanning ARC Raiders's coverage, newest first.

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30 SEPT
1 piece
EE
Rock Paper Shotgun·30 Sept
"Ultimately, we asked 'why are we doing this?'": the creators of Arc Raiders wildly underestimated how hard it is to make a live service game
news
28 APR
1 piece
EE
Rock Paper Shotgun·28 Apr
"We've heard a clear frustration": Arc Raiders update adds a beach holiday map while patching the gun balance to ensure "all players are challenged by weapon attrition"
news
14 APR
1 piece
EE
Rock Paper Shotgun·14 Apr
"I wanted you to feel bad": former Battlefield audio designer recalls punching himself to record more realistic gunshot screams
news
1 APR
1 piece
EE
Rock Paper Shotgun·1 Apr
Arc Raiders patch protects your precious custom loadouts by lowering the odds of spawning late in a server full of freeloaders
news
20 FEB
1 piece
EE
Rock Paper Shotgun·20 Feb
Arc Raiders is getting a hurricane map condition that will hasten your steps and blow grenades back in your face
news
28 JAN
1 piece
EE
Rock Paper Shotgun·28 Jan
Arc Raiders update rips out one of the game's most maddening puzzles
news
20 JAN
1 piece
EE
Rock Paper Shotgun·20 Jan
An ARC Raiders auction house would be "risky", but Embark are looking at a playable Speranza hub and an actual trading animation
news
16 DEC 2025
1 piece
EE
Rock Paper Shotgun·16 Dec 2025
Arc Raiders takes a turn for the Long Dark with today's Cold Snap update - beware the frostbite
news
2 DEC 2025
1 piece
EE
Rock Paper Shotgun·2 Dec 2025
Embark almost put crafting timers in Arc Raiders when the game was F2P, but the model made it "hard to respect the player's time"
news
1 DEC 2025
1 piece
JB
Rock Paper Shotgun·1 Dec 2025
The 100 best PC games of all time in 2025
roundup
12 NOV 2025
2 pieces
EE
Rock Paper Shotgun·12 Nov 2025
Epic boss Tim Sweeney is right to call genAI a political topic - it's a mechanism of class war
feature
EE
Rock Paper Shotgun·12 Nov 2025
Arc Raiders celebrates the launch of a new region in the North Line update with microtransaction price cuts
news
5 NOV 2025
1 piece
EE
Rock Paper Shotgun·5 Nov 2025
Arc Raiders could get map conditions that alter the friction, for truly Tribes-esque sliding
news
31 OCT 2025
1 piece
EE
Rock Paper Shotgun·31 Oct 2025
The hardest part of making Arc Raiders was creating a "meaningful" item meta so that your loot doesn't just feel like "cash"
news
30 OCT 2025
1 piece
EE
Rock Paper Shotgun·30 Oct 2025
Arc Raiders is out now, and the best thing about it so far is bumsliding through a buried desert city
feature
29 OCT 2025
1 piece
EE
Rock Paper Shotgun·29 Oct 2025
Arc Raiders doesn't AI-generate guns from Youtube videos, Embark clarifies: "that's a research project, and not something that we're using in the game now"
feature