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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

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

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?'

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

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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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

Arc Raiders boss says Marathon has "done a really good job" fixing things after "heavily criticized" technical test: "That's unusual. So credit to that team"

Embark's not viewing Bungie's FPS as competition, either

ARC Raiders is substituting AI voices with real actors

More voice acting roles for real people in ARC Raiders.

Embark CEO says 'a real professional actor is better than AI' after the studio re-records some Arc Raiders dialog with real humans

Embark is not ending its use of generative AI, which it sees "first and foremost as a production tool."

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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

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."

'Arc Raiders is almost like a social experiment': Embark Studios' CEO reveals a neurology professor encouraged him to submit the game for scientific testing to study player behaviour

'Arc Raiders is almost like a social experiment': Embark Studios' CEO reveals a neurology professor encouraged him to submit the game for scientific testing to study player behaviour

Most gamers should be scientifically studied tbh.

"'You have no idea what you've built'": Arc Raiders lead says a "prominent professor in neurology" encouraged him to submit the extraction shooter to science

"'You have no idea what you've built'": Arc Raiders lead says a "prominent professor in neurology" encouraged him to submit the extraction shooter to science

"We may not go that far"

"I think Speranza is heavily underutilized": Arc Raiders boss wants to see more social elements and thinks the main city is ripe for "something else"

"I think Speranza is heavily underutilized": Arc Raiders boss wants to see more social elements and thinks the main city is ripe for "something else"

Embark is looking at ways to make both PvE and PvP more fun

Arc Raiders boss says he'll "apologize" to Italy's Stella Montis hotel after it's flooded with reviews from players: "I didn't know about that. That's amazing"

Arc Raiders boss says he'll "apologize" to Italy's Stella Montis hotel after it's flooded with reviews from players: "I didn't know about that. That's amazing"

Sorry, Stella Montis

Arc Raiders boss says "that's not the vision for our game" when asked about Fortnite-style skins, prefers the Battlefield 6 route where "everything fits the fiction"

Arc Raiders boss says "that's not the vision for our game" when asked about Fortnite-style skins, prefers the Battlefield 6 route where "everything fits the fiction"

Don't expect any Goku or Homer Simpson costumes

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 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"

After the colossal success of ARC Raiders, dev Embark Studios has "long-term security," and has two new games in the works that "we hope to finish someday."

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Reported Arc Raiders budget of $75 million is "not too far off," says Embark head: "We can live for a long time on the money that Arc Raiders has been generating"

Arc Raiders didn't cost "hundreds and hundreds of millions"

Arc Raiders had an auction house-style trade system at one point, but Embark removed it because it ruined loot: "It turned the game into just being about coins"

But the devs do want to make trading more social and fun

Embark dispels myths about Arc Raiders' aggression-based matchmaking: 'We don't make any value or moral judgments … it's a bit of a blunt instrument'

Embark doesn't want you to feel penalized for choosing violence in Arc Raiders.

Embark's CEO says they couldn't compete 'with the likes of EA and Activision' head on so they had to 'change the way games were being developed'

Where there's a will there's a way.

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Embark CEO says Arc Raiders 'should do more with the trading part of the game' and he's right

"We're going to want to do more of that because it's fun."

Embark CEO says 'it would be fun' to have an Arc Raiders TV show or movie after receiving multiple offers, but it's not in the cards right now

But it's probably coming, right?

Arc Raider's defining feature, according to Embark's CEO, is all the odd player interactions: 'We did not expect people to take on roles of Defender of the Swamp'

It's the best proximity chat I've encountered in a very long time.

'We don't use AI…to replace people,' claims Arc Raiders CEO, without actually explaining what they do use it for

Embark isn't abandoning AI any time soon.

"The first dialog we had was obviously centered around [GTA 6]": Arc Raiders devs "did not want to be close" to Rockstar at launch, but were just fine challenging Call of Duty

It certainly worked out for Embark

'We did not want to be close to them': The only game Arc Raiders wanted to avoid on release was predictably GTA 6, 'I don't think anyone wanted to be close to them'

Embark wasn't as worried about Call of Duty or Battlefield.

Arc Raiders devs were inspired by Helldivers 2 when they shifted from free-to-play to a $40 game: "We don't want the price to be an offender for someone"

"I hope that people, given how much time they seem to spend in the game, feel like we've given them value for money"

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