ARK: Survival Evolved

ARK: Survival Evolved has been updated with some nifty new things for players to check out. Two new structures have been added: the Chemistry Table and Primitive Cannon. The Broodmother boss arena is also now in game and two new critters are also included: Direbears and the Manta. Check out the video below for an overview of the latest big update to ARK: Survival Evolved.

Trendy and Ark: Survival Evolved Studio, Wildcard, have announced that a settlement has been reached in the lawsuit filed earlier this year claiming that Jeremy Stieglitz, on leaving Trendy, violated the terms of his severance with the company.

Mac, Linux and SteamOS users will be happy to hear that ARK: Survival of the Fittest is now available and features seamless online cross play regardless of platform. Survival of the Fittest is free to all players who can seek glory in the Survivor League.

The v733.0 update has been added to the XBox One version of ARK: Survival Evolved that brings a unique feature into the game called 'extinction event servers'. Extinction servers are separate from the main game servers. When extinction servers are enabled, players begin at level one and have a month to grow their characters with badges awarded at various milestones along the way. At month's end, a meteor hits and all is destroyed.

ARK: Survival Evolved has grown again with the addition of two new "cave-dungeons", Swamp and Snow Caves. These dungeons are for higher level survivors, feature tough battles, high-end loot and clues about the origin of ARK.

Trendy Entertainment, developer of Dungeon Defenders, filed a lawsuit late last year against Studio Wildcard, developer of ARK: Survival Evolved. According to documentation, Trendy accuses former employee Jeremy Stieglitz of using proprietary tech developed during his tenure with the company and that several employees have been 'poached' from Trendy to work for Studio Wildcard since he left in 2014.

With today's ARK: Survival Evolved live stream just a few hours away, the team is teasing its players with "Mysterious Mysteries: GIGAntic Expectations" seemingly in reference to a robotic Gigantasurus shown in the image below.

The ARK: Survival Evolved team has released the latest update to the game that includes the new giant Beaver that can, as would be expected, build dams, harvest and carry wood, act as a mobile crafting station and swim. In addition, players can get hold of handcuffs to keep enemies and prisoners don't escape.

Studio Wildcard has announced that the XBox One version of ARK: Survival Evolved has been updated to bring split-screen multiplayer into the game along side three new dinosaurs, beer crafting and more.

The latest ARK: Survival Evolved update has been deployed that bring a number of neat features on board including the addition of grappling hooks that will fundamentally change the way the game is played by lucky owners.

Among other nifty new stuff added in the latest ARK: Survival Evolved Steam update, players can check out the new three-seater Gallimimus mount. In addition, players can learn more about the Electric Prod Stunner, check out the greenhouse tileset and the new Swat-style armor.

An island that time forgot, or some sinister experiment from the future? In the first entry in a new column, Gareth Harmer explores the world of ARK: Survival Evolved.

There's no question that ARK: Survival Evolved is a hugely popular title for XBox One players. One only has to look at the fact that most PvE and PvP servers are packed to the rafters, nearly 400 combined. With that in mind, today's patch deployment to bring XB1 up to the same version as PC also comes with the announcement that more servers are incoming.

Well, not exactly -- the two received love today on the ARK: Survival Evolved forums however. Creative types will want to take note of the new $60,000 Mod Contest with three distinct categories: Mods, Maps and Total Conversions. Modders can use the ARK Dev Kit to make amazing mods for the game.

ARK: Survival Evolved players should just scrap any pending plans for New Year's Eve with today's announcement that the annual ball will drop from the skies, burst open when it hits the ground and spew forth goodies for all survivors including, if one is lucky, a chance at a prehistoric kangaroo!