Ark: Survival Ascended's Xbox Series X/S release gets last-minute delay

Ark: Survival Ascended – Studio Wildcard’s controversial Unreal Engine 5 spruce-up of its dinosaur-themed survival game – will no longer launch for Xbox Series X/S on 15th November as originally announced, with the developer now hoping to release the game “later this week”.

Ark: Survival Ascended is no stranger to delays, of course; the full-price upgrade – which is mandatory for players wishing to continue using Wildcard’s official servers – was originally due to launch in August but was delayed to October after Wildcard admitted it “found it challenging working with Unreal Engine 5.2”.

October did eventually see the release of Ark: Survival Ascended on PC (albeit with a heap of performance problems), but its arrival was accompanied by a further delay for Xbox Series X/S and PlayStation 5, with both versions being pushed back to an unspecified point in “November”. Wildcard finally slapped the Xbox version with a 15th November release date last week (the PS5 edition remains TBA), but that’s now slipped again too.