ARK: Survival Ascended News

ARK: Survival Ascended Heads Underground With Free Aberration Ascended Expansion

September 10, 2024 Marc Marasigan Comments

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Calling all dino-wranglers! ARK: Survival Ascended just dropped its newest free expansion, Aberration Ascended, on PC, Xbox Series X/S, and PlayStation 5 – and it’s free! This remastered update for the remastered survival MMO revives the beloved Aberration map, packing it with fresh challenges and a whole lot of radiation. Fifteen new creatures lurk in the subterranean shadows, the community-requested [...]

ARK: Survival Ascended Opens Temporary Servers To Meet Scorched Earth Demand

April 16, 2024 Marc Marasigan Comments

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Things are heating up in ARK: Survival Ascended as players descend on the survival sandbox to blaze trails through its newly opened Scorched Earth map. In fact, the demand is so great that Studio Wildcard has decided to open temporary servers in hopes of accommodating everyone. Players on the said servers are advised to transfer their characters, items, and creatures [...]

ARK: Survival Ascended Is Free-To-Play On Steam And PlayStation 5 Until April 11

April 6, 2024 Marc Marasigan Comments

Studio Wildcard is treating everyone to a free romp through ARK: Survival Ascended this weekend with another limited-time free-play event. The free weekend will run until 10 a.m. PST on April 8, giving both Steam and PlayStation 5 users unrestricted access to all maps and content, including the newly released Scorched Earth map. The freebies don’t stop there as the [...]

ARK: The Animated Series Quietly Debuted On Paramount+ With A Star-Studded Cast

March 23, 2024 Marc Marasigan Comments

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ARK: The Animated Series came out of nowhere and premiered on Paramount+ earlier this week to the surprise of ARK: Survival Ascended and Survival Evolved fans. Its showrunners didn’t spare any expense either, featuring a ludicrous lineup of Hollywood stars that includes Vin Diesel, Russel Crowe, Gerard Butler, and Michelle Yeoh. “ARK: The Animated Series is a sweeping saga spanning [...]

ARK: Survival Ascended Delays The Center Map But Will Still Be Adding A New Dino

February 25, 2024 Marc Marasigan Comments

ARK: Survival Ascended is due for its first major content update at the end of the month. While the update was originally supposed to include The Center, one of the original DLC maps from ARK: Survival Evolved, Studio Wildcard feels that the map still needs more polish and has decided to delay its release indefinitely. “We’ve made the decision to [...]

ARK: Survival Ascended Rolls Back Its Dev Kit Update Following Missing Item Reports

February 11, 2024 Marc Marasigan Comments

A lot of things in ARK: Survival Ascended are out to eat you, apparently that also includes the game itself. Last week’s massive mod-focused update introduced more dev kit updates and the first phase of its custom cosmetics trading and delivery system. Unfortunately, it also came with a nasty bug that magically made player items disappear. The update was originally [...]

ARK: Survival Ascended Locks Down A Release Date For Scorched Earth DLC

January 14, 2024 Marc Marasigan Comments

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Studio Wildcard has finally confirmed a launch date for ARK: Survival Ascended’s highly awaited Scorched Earth DLC. Unfortunately, the UE5 remaster’s community will have to wait a bit longer than expected before they can start their survival adventures in the unforgiving desert and get their hands on Wild West-styled gear. Scorched Earth was initially planned for release in March 2024 [...]

ARK: Survival Ascended Rolls Servers Back By 8 Hours Due To Another Duping Exploit

January 4, 2024 Marc Marasigan Comments

A new duping exploit in ARK: Survival Ascended has forced Studio Wildcard to roll the servers back by eight hours yesterday to partially repair the damage caused by the exploit on the official server economies. “With the deployment happening now, we are conducting a service-wide rollback on our official network of approximately eight hours to reduce the damage caused by [...]

ARK: Survival Ascended Moves Up PS5 Launch As It Temporarily Disables Cross-Play On PC

November 30, 2023 Marc Marasigan Comments

It’s been a little over a month since ARK: Survival Ascended launched on PC and a week after it launched on Xbox Series X|S. PlayStation 5 users, however, have yet to start their journey in the dino-taming survival sandbox MMO as Studio Wildcard worked to get it certified for release on the console. According to the developers, last minute issues [...]

ARK: Survival Ascended Approves Over 120 Mods For Cross-Platform Play

November 26, 2023 Marc Marasigan Comments

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Community-made mods have always been a backbone of ARK: Survival Evolved, allowing players to customize their maps and game sessions exactly how they wanted. After a month of playing a purely vanilla version ARK: Survival Ascended, the UE5-powered remake’s players now have the power to do the same. Developer Studio Wildcard recently approved 120 cross-platform mods which will allow players [...]

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