Ark: Survival Evolved, famed mushroom trip and monster crapping simulator, is coming to mobile phones. The pint-sized port should be the perfect outlet for anyone who can't wait to get home before satisfying their naked dinosaur hunting urges.

What if every part of Jurassic Park -- from the trees to the dinosaurs to Jeff Goldblum's gleaming chest -- was made of blocks? Nobody has ever asked this question, but PixArk looks to answer it. Well, minus the Jeff Goldblum part (probably).

Aberration, the paid DLC expansion for Ark: Survival Evolved that arrived this week on PC and consoles, includes a lot of weird, new stuff such as invisible flying lizards and a Reaper Queen that can impregnate the player with baby reapers. It also has a new type of mushroom that causes beautiful, dizzying hallucinations.

Recently, we asked you to draw us some dinosaurs in MS Paint for a chance to win a copy of Ark: Survival Evolved on your platform of choice. Holy crap, you should see some of the entries we got.

After years in Early Access, the dinosaur sandbox tamer has finally left the wilderness for a full release.

Ark: Survival Evolved is just about to drop in Australia. To celebrate, we've teamed up with Studio Wildcard to give away 10 copies of the game!

Ark: Survival Evolved hasn't even been out a week in its official Version 1.0 form, but that hasn't stopped developer Wildcard from unveiling the game's second major expansion.

Yesterday, Wildcard's dinosaur extravaganza Ark: Survival Evolved finally launched after two years in early access development. Things didn't get off to the smoothest of starts, however, with several unforeseen technical issues leading to the game's official servers coming online later than expected. Eventually, that issue was resolved, but players almost immediately ran into another: There simply don't appear to be enough servers to go around.

In what will probably be the first and last time I'm excited for anything involving Rabbids, the biggest release this week is comfortably the unusual cross-over between Mario and Ubisoft.

But the list of big hitters doesn't stop there: the first episode of Life is Strange: Before the Storm drops this week, ARK: Survival Evolved comes out of Early Access, and RedOut gets a well-deserved console release. It's a big week in games, people.

Remember when Studio Wildcard said it was going to wipe the Ark: Survival Evolved servers prior to launch, and then it said it wouldn't? Well, now it's going to wipe some of them -- and it's withdrawing customer support for surviving servers after the retail version hits August 29. Is your head spinning yet?

This is a picture of a dragon from ARK: Survival Evolved. It's not normally what an ARK dragon looks like, but it's what can happen when you blend in-game screenshots with machine learning.

In what is becoming an ongoing thorn in the side of PlayStation PR, the Ark: Survival Evolved developers have revealed that they have gotten cross-play working internally for the survival dinosaur sandbox - but Sony won't let them roll the feature out officially.

Looking over reviews of recent Steam sandbox hit Citadel: Forged With Fire, I was struck by a repeated refrain: Finally, reviewers cheered, a game that eschews survival "busywork" like hunger, thirst, and stamina. It's true that in many so-called survival games, survival is tedious. But survival is about more than just food and shelter, and games aren't fully exploring what could be done with the idea.

On Monday July 17th, we received an email about Ark: Survival Evolved, offering an interview with its developer Studio Wildcard to discuss a major change. Wildcard would today announce, we were told, that all official game servers would be wiped at launch, despite previously pledging that this would never happen.

In anticipation of the game's retail release, Ark: Survival Evolved developer Wildcard has increased the price of its popular dinosaur survival game on Steam from $US29.99 to $US59.99. This makes sense considering it will be officially available on August 8 as a full retail game. So far, it's just been in Early Access.

Early-access darling Ark: Survival Evolved is nearing completion. Studio Wildcard told Kotaku that it will finally give the game a proper launch on August 8 for Xbox One, PlayStation 4 and PC, with an Xbox One X version coming on November 7. It will even have two collector's editions.

Ark: Survival Evolved is getting some proper achievements on Steam in next week's big update, most of them pulled directly from the console versions. That's great, kind of. As much as I love this dinosaur-themed survival time waster, it can lack direction, and achievements can give a bit of direction to an open-ended sandbox game. But Ark's achievements are pretty blah.

Ark: Survival Evolved is a shitty game. Literally. You might think it's about dinosaurs and blowing stuff up, but no. The real star of the show is this guy: The humble poo. Let's explore all the wonderful ways poo brightens up the harsh world of this survival game.

Ark: Survival Evolved mutates again with its new v257 patch released on Friday. Among other things, it adds lasers to sharks. About time honestly.