"Extraction shooters are dead"; "Tarkov's Steam launch will kill it"; "You can't launch between Battlefield & Call of Duty". We could go on... the point is, Embark defied all expectations and won with their record-setting latest release, ARC Raiders.
Valve has a monopoly problem. 72% of their developers think that's what they are.
Each time we've covered the back-and-forths between Nintendo's patent lawyers and Palworld devs, Pocketpair, the foregone conclusion has been that the Big N's legal eagles would come out on top overall... Not so this time, with pressure mounting on both sides of the Pacific!
Blizzard are monetising the housing store using a premium currency. That's... something.
Arc Raiders' staggering success seems to have opened up the extraction genre for more players... by changing what the genre means.