[url=http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=503064740][img]http://images.akamai.steamusercontent.com/ugc/620722512154777231/25222BE6D944EF228608821B0C48E6F9CCAA5BA8/[/img][/url] [h1]Dino Dossier[/h1] A new Dino Dossier has been revealed, this one is everyone’s favorite inspiring poison-resistant herbivore, the Lystrosaurus! [h1]ARK Digest![/h1] Hello Survivors! Welcome to the fourteenth issue of the ARK Digest! For those who missed the previous issues, check out the Announcement forum section on the Steam Community Hub and be sure to catch up with what you’ve missed as there is tons for you to catch up on! [h1]Modding Contest and ARK Development Kit update[/h1] [url=http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=499732860][img]http://images.akamai.steamusercontent.com/ugc/1474154076841501102/801457402801F3C255183E1A466209FE0D6BA0AF/[/img][/url] Earlier this week we launched an updated development kit in partnership with Epic Games, which includes a streamlined version of the UE4 Editor to simplify the creation and sharing process of ARK Mods! You can get it for free [url=https://www.unrealengine.com/download?dismiss=/dashboard]here![/url]! And with those updated tools, came out new modding initiative! We’ve partnered up with [url=https://twitter.com/alienware]Alienware[/url] and [url=https://twitter.com/nvidiageforce]NVIDIA GeForce[/url] to host our very own modding contest! The contest objective is to use our development kit and create your very own ARK Survival Evolved mod! The more creative and in depth the mod can be, the better it is! For those who enter the contest, here’s what you have a chance at winning! [b]Grand Prize (1st Place)[/b] $15,000 USD, Alienware Area-51 Desktop, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 TI Graphics Card and a Sponsored Server listing on TopARKServers! [b]2nd Place[/b] $5,000 USD, Alienware X51 Desktop, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 Graphics Card and a Sponsored Server listing on TopARKServers! [b]3rd Place[/b] $2,500 USD, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 Graphics Card and a Sponsored Server listing on TopARKServers! Special thanks to [url=https://twitter.com/alienware]Alienware[/url] and [url=https://twitter.com/nvidiageforce]NVIDIA GeForce[/url] for providing these extra prizes to the winners! We’d also like to give a shout-out to [url=http://toparkservers.com/]TopARKServers[/url] who have kindly offered to provide the winners of the contest a sponsor listing on their website for life! These servers are displayed on the front page so it’s a fantastic prize! So good luck to all those enter and we cannot wait to see what you come up with! For those extra details, click [url=http://www.playark.com/modcontest]here![/url] [h1]Spotlight: Gigantopithecus![/h1] For those who hadn’t seen earlier we recently added our new apelike friend to ARK Universe! Including a little spotlight of what this new strange creature is capable of. [url=http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=468627077][img]http://images.akamai.steamusercontent.com/ugc/620717530061251919/AAFB9BC346E9516EB713B87AE441B51BD885D6A3/[/img][/url] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d6pEYRvLIZk The Gigantopithecus Fibrarator is a strange creature. It is usually quite passive, but it has a very short temper when it comes to it's personal space. Once, another creature gets close, this gentle giant quickly becomes a rampaging beast! It can be tamed via careful, non-violent feeding without raising its aggression, when domesticated the hairy-apelike creature can don a helmet on it's head and ride it's survivor on it's shoulders to utilize its tremendous strength and throw them over enemy barricades and walls! Let us know if you enjoyed seeing content like this and we can work on producing more for you guys! <3 [h1]Community Crunch Contests![/h1] Hey guys! We’re still running our weekly Community Crunch Contests! We want to see what you guys can create in our game, whether it’s a cool base or an beautiful painting - share it with us! We’ll be rewarding the winners with cash prizes each week! You can read more and enter [url=http://steamcommunity.com/app/346110/discussions/0/521643320346169724/]here![/url] [h1]ARK Digest Q&A![/h1] This will be an extended Q&A due to the fact that last week’s was cut because of other commitments and time constraints! Sorry about that guys, hopefully you’ll be able to pick up a lot from this weeks and thanks for being so cool about it <3 we really appreciate it! so click [url=http://steamcommunity.com/app/346110/discussions/0/521643320351409310/]here![/url]