ARC Raiders Is Handing Out A Free Gift On Xbox To Celebrate Huge Sales & Player Numbersord

The ARC Raiders team is handing out a DLC freebie on Xbox right now as a result of some massive new player numbers and sales milestones for the title, but you've got to be quick to claim it.

Anyone who logs into ARC Raiders before 3pm PT / 6pm ET / 11pm GMT / Midnight CET today, January 13th, will be eligible to claim the Gilded Pickaxe Raider Tool. The DLC freebie should be available straight away, as long as you hop in before this time.

ARC Raiders Is Handing Out A Free Gift On Xbox To Celebrate Huge Sales & Player Numbers1

As for those new records, ARC Raiders has now sold more than 12.4 million units across all platforms, and has this month hit a new concurrent player record as well. 960,000 people jumped into the super-popular shooter at the same time in January, 10 weeks after the game's October 2025 launch.

Here's what Junghun Lee, President and CEO of Nexon, had to say on how ARC Raiders is performing:

"We are incredibly pleased with the strong retention and enduring enthusiasm players in all major markets worldwide have shown for ARC Raiders [...] As pleased as we were with the October launch, reaching more than 12.4 million units and setting a record with 960,000 concurrent users in January demonstrates the potential for ARC Raiders to become another pillar in Nexon’s portfolio of blockbuster franchises."

The company then mentions how recent sales promos from the likes of Xbox over the holiday period have helped the developer reach these numbers:

"Driven by strong holiday sell-through from promotions with Epic Games Store, Steam, PlayStation, and Xbox, ARC Raiders surpassed 10 million units in sales by the end of December, less than two months after the launch. Sales momentum accelerated in recent weeks, taking the total to more than 12.4 million units,"

After so many multiplayer/live service failure stories in recent years, it's nice to see this one — a new IP, no less — do incredibly well for developer and publisher alike. While we haven't had as much time as we'd like to play ARC Raiders here at PX HQ, we were incredibly impressed by our opening few hours with the Xbox extraction shooter last fall.

Have you contributed to these massive numbers for Embark & Nexon? Talk to us about ARC Raiders down below.

[source businesswire.com]