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Arc Raiders is still going strong almost a year after finding viral success, and it's all thanks to Embark Studios' one-two-punch strategy of launching a huge new update, Frozen Trails, to coincide with a free weekend.

Arc Raiders' Frozen Trails update upgraded the extraction shooter to version 2.0 earlier this month - 8th October - and quickly led to a surge in Steam players interested in its tense PvEvP shootouts. A new report from Alinea Analytics ' Rhys Elliott now claims a similar resurgence took place across all platforms where the game's available.

According to the report, Arc Raiders' comeback peaked with a whopping 1.7m daily players jumping in on the 14th of October, its biggest player count in six months, mostly driven by the aforementioned update.…