ARK: Survival Evolved Early Access on Xbox One Available Next Week

ARK: Survival Evolved was recently announced for the Xbox One. The full release for the game is schedule for June 2016 on Windows PC and Xbox One, however an Early Access version will be made available on Xbox One next week.

The game will be available through the Xbox Game Preview program starting on December 16th for $34.99.

"Our goal is to bring all this chaotic and creative spontaneous fun – the tribe building, dino-breeding, dino-combat, the weapons-, armor-, food-, and recipe-crafting, and more – to Xbox One fans with no compromises," co-founder and co-creative director at Studio Wildcard, Jess Rapczak, told IGN.

"Through all of this, we hope to help Microsoft build out Xbox Game Preview while giving Xbox One gamers something totally new and different than the standard updated version of old franchises. Gamers want new experiences on their consoles, and we feel that ARK, which is one of the few dinosaur games on the market, and one of the only, if not the only true multiplayer survival games on console, will bring that fresh gaming experience that helps define this generation."

The Early Access version on the Xbox One will contain all of the same content that is available right now on the Windows PC version.

"Everything that’s in the PC version right now is on Xbox," Rapczak said. "ARK has been in Early Access development for six months, and the amount of content has easily tripled in that time while the game systems have become much more mature. XGP gamers are getting the benefit of all that work with a game that is much closer to launch than the one that hit Steam back in June."

The updates for the Xbox One won't come as often as those on Windows PC, however they will contain all of the content that comes to PC.

"[We] won't be putting out updates at the insane pace of the PC version," said Rapczak. "We do plan to keep content parity between the XGP and PC versions of the game. That means you can expect to see updates no further than two weeks apart full of new content, features and general improvements across the board. We've gotten a lot of feedback from the PC community that we're doing Early Access better than they've ever seen before, and we want to continue that trend with Xbox Game Preview."