Official Site:Â ARK: Survival Evolved, Steam
Studio:Â Studio Wildcard
Launch Date:Â June 2, 2015 (Early Access)
Genre:Â Dino Survival Sandbox
Business Model:Â B2P (One-Time Fee)
Platform: PC, Xbox One
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The Daily Grind: Do dinosaurs help or hurt your immersion in MMOs?
My kids, being of a younger age, tend to find dinosaurs pretty darn awesome. They went bananas the other day when they saw a...
The Stream Team: Exploring ARK’s Ragnarok map
One of the neat things about ARK is that there is more than one map to explore. Massively OP's MJ has poked into the...
The Survivalist: How procedurally generated maps stretch the life of survival MMOs
It's no secret that I love to explore. And exploring the dangerous new worlds of survival games has been something I have really been...
This week in survivalboxes: Valnir Rok, Hellion, Next Day Survival, and ARK
It’s time for another survivalbox roundup! What's new in the world of eternal building, unbuilding, ganking, ganking buildings, and consuming adequate food and water...
Snail Games is launching ARK Park for PSVR in December
ARK Park has a release date. Well, a release month: December. Yep, it'll be out by the end of the year.
"We have just announced...
PAX West 2017: ARK Survival Evolved on optimization, the Aberration expansion, and future development
This past summer, ARK: Survival Evolved finally officially launched, ending its stint as an early access game just three days before PAX West, then promptly announced...
Global Chat: Not that impressed by Destiny 2
Destiny 2's recent PC beta certainly brought out curious players in droves, and MMO bloggers couldn't help but share their opinions on this next...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 134: You are my… Destiny
Justin and Bree discuss LOTRO, DDO, Guild Wars 2, Wander, ARK, Funcom, Destiny 2, Cloud Pirates, Perpetuum, EVE Lifeblood, Villagers & Heroes, and helping out with Harvey, with mailbag questions on favorite MMO moments and finding a good guild.
One Shots: In the altogether
Warning: After the break is a shocking depiction of human nudity and the bravado of a squirrel that seeks to save you from nightmares...
Betawatch: Destiny 2 storms to PC (September 1, 2017)
The open beta for Destiny 2 finally hit the PC, and while I'm generally reluctant to say that anything is the preferred platform for...
PAX West 2017: ARK announces underground Aberration expansion with ziplines and spelunking
With an expansion and official launch released in that order, ARK: Survival Evolved is busy at work on its next expansion. Announced at PAX...
The Daily Grind: What wishful-thinking PAX West MMORPG announcement would blow you away?
Massively OP's MJ Guthrie is at PAX West (formerly known as PAX Prime, a much catchier name if you ask me!) for us this...
ARK Survival Evolved suffers launch-day overcrowding, optimization issues.
How weird is it not to categorize this ARK: Survival Evolved post under alphas and beta? Pretty weird.
The Stream Team: ARK has launched!
Yes, it actually happened: ARK has finally launched. It's like the world is ending or something! For those on official servers, their world pretty...
Microsoft encourages industry to talk about crossplay cooperation
If games industry giants can be seen as extremely territorial siblings, each jealously guarding his or her own possessions and unwilling to work with...
ARK Survival Evolved launches today; get caught up here with the trailer and roundup!
Try to hold back your shock: Sci-fi-dino-themed survival sandbox ARK Survival Evolved is really, truly, launching today, so put all those delay gripes and...
The Stream Team: Apes and dragons in an ARK raid double-header
The latest raid on ARK's Broodmother went so well that Massively OP's MJ and the group are excited to take a stab at the...
Massively Overthinking: The survivalbox vs. the MMORPG
A few weeks ago in Massively Overthinking, the team discussed the resurgence in popularity of small-scale co-op games and whether that has impacted the...
Gamescom 2017: ARK Survival Evolved’s launch trailer has otters
No more delays: ARK Survival Evolved launches next week on August 29th, and Studio Wildcard brought a trailer to Gamescom to razzle-dazzle the dino-loving audience. It's...
ARK Survival Evolved is nuking low pop servers in just one week
ARK Survival Evolved is gearing up for launch, finally, which means it's now beginning to shelve some of the low pop servers across all...
