ARC Raiders Lost 80% of Players on Steam, Almost Half of Developers Are Thinking of Changing Professions - The Most Interesting Things for April 16

A brief digest of everything that has been happening with the entertainment industry around the world over the past day.

• ARC Raiders lost 80% of players on Steam since the beginning of 2026 — fans are calling on Embark to save the game
• Experts are sounding the alarm: almost half of the developers are thinking of changing professions
• Xbox Series S has become a problem even for such an undemanding game as Replaced
• They abandoned Unreal Engine 5 and won at The Game Awards 2025. Wuthering Waves is becoming more and more beautiful
• New confusion Crimson Desert: developers incorrectly described the key mechanic
• Ubisoft showed the capabilities of Anvil. New Assassin's Creed will work on this engine
• Feminists criticized the sexy host of the Naraka: Bladepoint event, and she dyed herself black and did "blackface"
• "We overcome impossible limitations": the authors of No Man’s Sky talked about working on versions for Steam Deck and Switch 2
• Glory to the Emperor: the audience of Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2 has reached 12 million players
• PlayStation 6 will receive backward compatibility with games for PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 5 — rumor