The Finals Season 2 Promises A New Map, Casual Mode, Playstyle, And Private Matches

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Nexon’s game show-inspired free-to-play shooter, The Finals, is getting ready to start its second season next week, featuring a new map, class-specific weapons, playstyle, game mode, competitive content, and a test version of private matches. Season 2 will introduce the new hacker-themed SYS$HORIZON map, a nighttime cityscape that makes for the perfect parkour playground, as well as a new, casual, [...]

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The Finals Player Count Continues To Drop As It Struggles To Compete With Recent Hits

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Game show-inspired free-to-play shooter The Finals seems to have fizzled out of the limelight after its extremely successful surprise launch at The Game Awards 2024. It was arguably one of the biggest game releases in December, touting an all-time peak concurrency on Steam of 242,619 players just two days after its launch and 10 million total players in just two [...]

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Free-To-Play Shooter The Finals Touts 10 Million Players Since Its Open Beta Launch

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Since The Finals launched into open beta back in October and its full release earlier this month, it’s managed to capture the attention of millions of players across the globe. Developer Embark Studios reports that the game show-styled free-to-play shooter has broken the 10-million-player mark, placing it securely on the 11th spot of Steam’s Most Played Games list. “We’re so [...]

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Team-Based Shooter ‘The Finals’ Kicks Off Cross-Platform Open Beta Test Today

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Embark Studios is opening The Finals up to the general public today when it kicks off the team-based first-person shooter’s first cross-platform open beta test. The playtest will run until November 5th on PC via Steam, PlayStation, and Xbox with a brand-new map, game mode, and battle pass. “The Open Beta introduces the brand new Skyway Stadium arena to the [...]

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Embark Studios Announces New Free-To-Play FPS With Destructible Environments

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Embark Studios, a new development studio founded by former DICE and EA executive Patrick Söderlund, is currently working on two new games. One is a co-op robot shooter called Arc Raiders which was announced at last year’s The Game Awards and was recently delayed in favor of its other game, a free-to-play FPS with destructible environments called The Finals which [...]

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