ARC Raiders announced at TGA 2021, launching in 2022

ARC Raiders the first game from the studio founded by Electronic Arts’ former chief designer, will launch in 2022, Embark Studios announced at The Game Awards 2021. It is an open-source, first-person sci fi shooter that allows players to fight against an alien invasion.

Thursday’s preview trailer showed human resistance fighters running from their stronghold against increasing invading forces. First they blast apart drone-like scouts, and soon they’re taking on huge, four-legged spider-walkers and other threats. Trailer suggests that the main mode will be a PvE match in a Horde style.

ARC Raiders The game will be available on PlayStation 5, Xbox One and Xbox Series X. It can also launch via Steam, Epic Games Store, Steam and Nvidia GeForce Now. The game is published by Nexon, which bankrolled Patrick Soderlund’s startup when he left EA at the end of 2018. Soderlund was also brought on board Nexon’s board of directors.

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“With this reveal, we want to celebrate gameplay and give players more than a hint of how ARC Raiders looks and what it feels like to play,” Soderlund said in a statement. “Ultimately for a co-op action game like Arc Raiders that’s what matters the most.”

Thursday night’s news release said ARC Raiders players will loot downed enemies “and scavenge the ruins of the past for tools and gadgets to outsmart the enemy.” Players will also “do the unexpected and improvise, using physics and your surroundings to your advantage.”