After falling in love with ARC Raiders, this 2026 game has jumped to the top of my most anticipated list

Before 2025, I never really found the concept of extraction shooters that interesting. Historically, my preference has been team-based hero shooters like Team Fortress 2 and Monitoringwith the occasional foray into Call of Duty when the mood hit me. That is why when ARC Raiders was revealed at first, I didn't think much of it. … Read more

New vampire game on Steam combines the best of Valheim with a focus on story

Since the launch of Early Access in 2021, Valheim has become one of the most influential survival games of recent times. Its mix of brutal exploration, cooperative gameplay, and atmospheric world-building helped redefine what gamers expect from open-world survival sandboxes. Even years into Early Access, Valheim continues to evolve and serves as a blueprint for … Read more

ARC Raiders Dev Clears Up Confusion Around 'Aggression Based Matchmaking' System

A developer at Embark Studios has clarified previous comments made by the studio's CEO regarding the controversial aggression-based matchmaking system in its successful third-person extraction shooter, ARC Raiders. While the matchmaking system in ARC Raiders is aggression-based, as previously revealed, Embark says it will continue to be fine-tuned and that labeling it “aggression-based” is a … Read more