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The First Descendant 2026 roadmap: Onslaught, Ultimate Esiemo, farming overhaul, and more

A busy year ahead.

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The First Descendant introduces power requirements to Onslaught and more farming loop improvements

Power requirements apply to the new Bounty Operations content, too.

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As Arc Raiders devs work on "reactivating" the 16 million people who bought the shooter, Embark Studios is early in development on two new games

Publisher Nexon's most-successful launch yet

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THE FINALS revenue grows by 47 percent, Nexon expects good performance in Q2

ARC Raiders performed well, too.

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South Korean Supreme Court orders Dark and Darker dev Ironmace to pay $3.84 million to Nexon

This brings an end to the civil case, but the criminal one is ongoing.

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The First Descendant’s new mode is Destiny 2’s Onslaught with a few extra steps

Defend the point and build defenses.

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Nexon confirms reorganizaton at The First Berserker: Khazan developer but says it's merely 'a strategic reallocation of talent' as development winds down

The shuffle is "not a workforce reduction or team dissolution," Nexon says, it just needs the people elsewhere.

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The First Berserker Khazan dev restructure "not related to workforce reduction or team dissolution," Nexon says: "We're proud of the game's creative direction and the positive response"

"Neople has reorganized its team"

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"Fantasy-style GTA" open-world game reportedly canceled after 2 years of work at Nexon

Project EL is no longer in development

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Despite good reviews, The First Berserker Khazan development team reportedly dissolved over disappointing sales just days after Nexon CEO praised the game

The team at Khazan developer Neople has apparently been reassigned

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"Completing the Game" is the radical plan for The First Descendant after 2 years, and the latest roadmap cooked up by Nexon just days after it called the game a flop

The developer admitted its looter shooter "did not work"

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The First Descendant teases Raven, turning into Colossus, and details long-term roadmap

The game isn't going away anythime soon.

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Nexon CEO admits The First Descendant had 'no staying power,' and that can't be addressed with a quick fix: 'These are design issues that are not fixed with a patch'

The Destiny-like was named for its "retention challenges" in a recent presentation.

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$Arc Raiders is a 'Trojan Horse' for demonstrating AI tool usage in game development, according to Nexon, after Embark built two hits at 'a fraction of the cost you’d expect'$

Arc Raiders is a 'Trojan Horse' for demonstrating AI tool usage in game development, according to Nexon, after Embark built two hits at 'a fraction of the cost you’d expect'

'What needs to be done by hand versus what a machine can do more efficiently?'

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ARC Raiders bosses double down on using AI in game dev: ‘More time innovating; less time writing code’

They're saying "get used to it," basically.

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110,000 mixed Steam reviews later, Nexon bluntly puts The First Descendant in the "did not work" category: "Strong launch, no staying power"

"These are design issues that are not fixed with a patch"

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Arc Raiders boss promoted to Nexon chief backs AI push for "redesigning game development" after building a hit "at a fraction of the cost you'd expect for a AAA game"

"Without context, AI is a race to the arithmetic middle where everyone's games look the same," says Nexon CEO

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Arc Raiders devs spent 3 years fighting "on a daily basis" over whether it was "a battle royale," "a hero looter shooter," "a co-op Soul game," or "a co-op Shadow of the Colossus game"

"Internally, we thought the game was deeper, more fun, better than we actually had in our hands"

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"A lot of games would be canceled": Arc Raiders lead recalls cutting all but 25 people in "desperation" when Nexon "gave us one more try" to salvage the flailing shooter

"We agreed that this game deserved another try"

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Arc Raiders is such a huge hit, Nexon has put Embark Studios CEO Patrick Söderlund in charge of everything else too

Söderlund has been named executive chairman of Nexon, heading up "long-term strategy, creative direction, and how Nexon develops games globally."

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Spited FPS streamer Shroud vindicated as Arc Raiders finally gets its GOTY award, taking Online Game of the Year at the DICE Awards

Let's not mention what Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 won

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Arc Raiders "significantly exceeded expectations" with 14 million copies sold and almost 1 million concurrent players last month, and its publisher expects momentum to continue

Nexon sees that number growing with future updates

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A new StarCraft game is rumoured to be in the works by Nexon's Shooter Division — implying that the game could be a first or third-person shooter

Rumors have sprung up that Nexon, the developer behind The First Descendant, Dungeon & Fighter, and Blue Archive, is working on a new game with the StarCraft IP.

GamesRadar

A second StarCraft revival is reportedly in development at Arc Raiders publisher Nexon, but it's got nothing to do with Blizzard's long-rumored shooter

Hell, it's about two times

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The First Descendant finally repurposes old maps, alongside Thunder Cage rework, Enzo buffs, and more

New dungeon features White-night Gulch, Vespers, and Fortress fields.

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