The official release for open-world-survival-shooter-with-dinosaurs, Ark: Survival Evolved has been delayed by several weeks.

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In a development blog post , it has been revealed that after over two years in early access on steam, Ark: Survival Evolved Studio Wildcard assures fans that the game already has its Gold Master certification for retail release, however, that completing this took longer than anticipated hence the reason for the full game's delay.The post goes on to explain that the free Ragnarok DLC for the game will also now release on August 29. This delay is set to make the DLC even bigger than what was originally promised, including increasing the overground by approximately 25%, as well as adding more items and areas.Furthermore, going gold allows for more work on the PC and multiplayer versions of the game, which will see immediate bug fixes and improvements.

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