One Unfortunate Ark: Survival Ascended Bug Might Kill Your Favorite Creatures

Studio Wildcard has announced revised release dates for Ark: Survival Ascended's The Center and Scorched Earth expansion map remasters following a delay for the latter last year, confirming they'll arrival in February and April respectively.

Ark: Survival Ascended’s existing dev kit is about to get much bigger in a “colossal” update, which Studio Wildcard says will “put the power of unbridled game creation directly in your hands.”

Do you like trapping innocent, extinct animals in diabolical, broken worlds of your own devising, miring them in a purgatory of genre comparisions from which they may never escape? Because Ark: Survival Ascended developers Studio Wildcard and Grove Street Games are promising/threatening to "put the power of unbridled game creation directly in your hands" with the game's next major dev kit update, which will release by the end of January.

There's no shortage of ways to get the edge in combat, but one of the easiest to use is also one of the easiest to forget about. With long lists of spells and items to wrangle, it doesn't take much for tools kept in the recess of an inventory to slip the mind. In more difficult encounters, however, wasting anything that could be used without repercussions can hand the victory to the enemy for no reason at all.

Information is currently scarce on the upcoming video game, but a rumored title could help provide a clue as to what the game is about. The project is in development at MachineGames, the studio behind the modern games, so it's certainly in the hands of people who know how to handle the classic prerogative of killing Nazis. A 1930s setting makes it seem likely that this element will be included, but most other aspects have been subject to only loose speculation.

At the end of every year, gamers are faced with an undeniable fact: far too many video games are released in a 12-month span for anyone to reasonably play them all. It's literally my job to play video games and I bet someone could fill a reasonable top ten this year of titles I didn't even get time to touch. But even as it's a universal, undeniable truth, the revelation that you missed out on something popular is always met with the same incredulous statement.

is getting a new map, but it might seem familiar to survivors who've played in the past. Because of the connection between these games, it's safe to assume that the remastered version of this map added to won't be too different from the original version that was featured in. However, it's possible that adjustments could be made to the new variation of this map, which has been seen with other features in already.

is set to reprise his role as Stoick the Vast in the upcoming live-action How To Train Your Dragon remake.

Alpha creatures represent the top food chain in and act as the game's tougher creatures outside of the game's bosses like Broodmother or Megapithecus. Originally released in to create a more difficult challenge, these apex predators have made their way to the new revamped. While somewhat similar in appearance, Apex creatures look different than their generic counterparts, boasting red skin and being larger in size. But the creatures aren't just more visually fearsome; they are also much more challenging to take out with higher overall stats and more punishing attacks.

Due to a large-scale exploit, Ark Survival Ascended devs conducted an eight-hour service-wide rollback while penalizing those who utilized the exploit. 

has no shortage of creatures to tame, and it's easy to be drawn to the exciting options like iconic dinosaurs and winged beasts. The best options aren't always the showiest, however, and digging deep into the choices that can be made reveals one animal with exceptionally effective usage. The Gigantopithecus might not be everyone's first choice to tame in, but its extraordinary utility makes ignoring the opportunity a potentially terrible mistake.

Tim Cain, one of the developers behind the original Fallout game, was once not too sure about its reverse-pickpocketing system.