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“We aren’t meant to live forever.” That’s the title of ARK: Survival Evolved’s farewell video as the dinosaur-themed survival sandbox officially shuts down. Developer Studio Wildcard also penned a dev blog thanking players for their over the years with a reminder that the game will live on in ARK: Survival Ascended and future ARK titles. Speaking of the remaster, [...]
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ARK Survival Evolved is nearing the end of its life to be replaced by the ARK Survival Ascended remaster in October. The original game’s servers will officially be shutting down on September 29th at 5 p.m. PDT which is also when the servers will get their final snapshots. The save snapshots will be shared on October 5th and will allow [...]
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It’s a bittersweet occasion for ARK: Survival Evolved players as Studio Wildcard releases its final creature for the dinosaur survival MMO – the Rhyniognatha. The insect-like creature arrives just a few months before the game shuts down this August to make way for its next-gen UE5 remake ARK: Survival Ascended. The Rhyniognatha is inspired by one of the oldest insects [...]
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Last week, Studio Wildcard earned the ire of the ARK: Survival Evolved community when it announced that it was remastering the dinosaur survival game but will be selling it as part of a $50 bundle with ARK 2 and paid DLCs. In response, the studio has decided to revise their plans and sell the Unreal Engine 5 remaster as a [...]
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We’ve got some good news, bad news, and worse news for ARK: Survival Evolved players and fans. The bad news is that ARK 2 has been delayed to sometime in 2024 as they work on an Unreal Engine 5 remaster of the original game, which, as you can probably guess, is the good news. The worse news is that you’re [...]
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After nearly seven years of waiting, ARK: Survival Evolved console players can finally enter the Tyranno-dome as the ARK: Survival of the Fittest battle royale mode goes live on PlayStation and Xbox. Survival of the Fittest first arrive on PC/Mac way back in 2016 as a free standalone spinoff game that pits players against each other in an all out [...]
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ARK: Survival Evolved literally brings color to the lives of its players for Valentine’s Day with new wild dino colors up for grabs as part of its annual Love Evolved EVO event. The event is now live and will run until February 17th on PC and consoles and until February 16th on Nintendo Switch. During the event, players will also [...]
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Studio Wildcard has finally rolled out the Ragnarok map on the Nintendo Switch version of ARK: Survival Evolved five years after it first came out on PC. The player-made map first made its debut as an official map for the PC version in 2017 but never made it to the Nintendo port presumably due to the issues with the portable [...]
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ARK: Survival Evolved will be kicking off its sixth PvP season on the dino survival sandbox MMORPG’s classic PvP servers with various changes to keep players on their toes. Season 6 will feature a new set of rules which includes no Tek dinos, no cave building, no content from later expansions such as Genesis and Aberration, and boosted XP gains [...]
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After months of teasing and a week-long delay, the ARK: Survival Evolved Ultimate Survivor Edition officially launched on the Nintendo Switch in North America and Europe earlier this week. The Ultimate Survivor Edition is a revamped version of the fairly-mediocre original Switch release and introduces a whole host of very welcome improvements including a UE 4 upgrade. Unfortunately, the new [...]
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