{"id":75344,"date":"2015-05-12T13:30:39","date_gmt":"2015-05-12T11:30:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=75344"},"modified":"2015-05-12T13:41:37","modified_gmt":"2015-05-12T11:41:37","slug":"this-may-be-the-best-dinosaur-game-ever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/75344-this-may-be-the-best-dinosaur-game-ever","title":{"rendered":"This may be the best dinosaur game ever"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>No seriously, is that a saber-toothed tiger in that artwork?! It is!<\/p>\n<p>If there&#8217;s one thing that&#8217;s severely lacking in games these days, it&#8217;s dinosaurs.<\/p>\n<p>Thankfully, independent developer Studio Wildcard has announced an ambitious project called <em>ARK: Survival Evolved<\/em>, which is a large open-world Jurassic survival FPS.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Powered by Unreal Engine 4, <em>ARK: Survival Evolved<\/em> takes on the survival genre with a unique blend of emergent multiplayer cooperation and competition. Players awake naked and starving on the beach of a mysterious island among a herd of other confused humans. On ARK, they must then hunt, harvest, craft, research technology, and build shelters to protect against scorching days, freezing nights, volatile weather systems, dangerous wildlife, and potential enemies.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In the announcement trailer, players are able to tame dinosaurs and ride them into battle against others dinosaurs or rivaling tribes on the island.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re also expecting a freaking sabe-toothed tiger. We saw it in the artwork, so we want it!<\/p>\n<p>The game is currently in development for Xbox One, PS4, PC, Mac and Linux (with an early 2016 release date), and Steam users will be able to try out <em>ARK: Survival Evolved<\/em> on Early Access starting June 2nd, 2015.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/FW9vsrPWujI\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Does this remind anyone of <em>The Stomping Land<\/em>, only much better? We thought so.<\/p>\n<h4><strong>Article courtesy of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.menstuff.co.za\/\" target=\"_blank\">MenStuff.co.za<\/a>.<\/strong><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Indie game studio announces massive prehistoric adventure, has DINOSAURS! Is that a saber-toothed tiger?!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":196,"featured_media":75346,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[13842,13838,8010,15397,1239,1853,85,13850,13840,10065],"class_list":["post-75344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-ark","tag-ark-survival-evolved","tag-dinosaurs","tag-pc","tag-playstation-4","tag-playstation4","tag-steam","tag-studio-wildcard","tag-survival-evolved","tag-xbox-one"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75344","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/196"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75344"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75344\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75348,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75344\/revisions\/75348"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/75346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}