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Snail, Inc. and Studio Wildcard Announce ARK: Survival Ascended Available Now For Purchase
ARK reimagined from the ground-up into the next-generation of videogame technology with Unreal Engine 5 CULVER CITY, Calif., Oct. 25, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) --
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[{"type":"text","content":"ARK reimagined from the ground-up into the next-generation of videogame technology with Unreal Engine 5\nCULVER CITY, Calif., Oct. 25, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Snail, Inc. (Nasdaq: SNAL) (“Snail” or “the Company”), a leading, global independent developer and publisher of interactive digital entertainment announced today with Studio Wildcard that the highly anticipated ARK: Survival Ascended is available for download on Steam today, with the console versions coming soon in November. This monumental remake of the ARK franchise leverages Unreal Engine 5's stunning graphics and introduces a game-altering cross-platform modding system, ushering in a new era of creativity. Key Features: ARK: Survival Ascended has completely recreated and redesigned the artwork and worlds of ARK to take advantage of the latest in video game technology, Unreal Engine 5, using high-end graphics features such as fully dynamic Global Illumination (“Lumen”), so that light bounces realistically of off surfaces and provides realistic reflections, and advanced mesh streaming (“Nanite”) of hundreds of millions of triangles for extreme detail. Advanced new physics systems such as dynamic water so that every creature creates waves, ripples, splashes, and bubbles as they move through fluids, and fully interactive physical foliage where every blade of grass, bush, and tree reacts to characters, explosions, projectiles, and physics objects. Knock down a tree, and see it crash into other trees and disturb all the foliage on its way down to smacking into the grass below! Detect an enemy moving sneakily through the grass as it shifts and sways in response to their presence. Demolish a building and watch the pieces break apart realistically, interacting with the grass and water as they fall. ARK: Survival Ascended includes access to all of ARK’s worlds, including Scorched Earth, Aberration, Extinction, ARK Genesis Part 1, ARK Genesis Part 2, and more. The Island is released now, with the subsequent expansion worlds to be added at no additional cost on a regular basis throughout 2024. The definitive survival experience returns, better than ever design your Survivor, form a tribe, and tame, train, breed and ride dinosaurs within a living ecosystem. Watch your food, water, temperature, and weather patterns. Slowly expand outwards as you harvest, build structures, farm crop...