ARK Mod Support Launches Alongside The Survival Of The Fittest

There is a bundle of news about ARK today as Studio Wildcard launch the Survival of the Fittest battle mode and their mod kit in one day, and Alienware announce a mod contest at the same time! After waiting a few weeks, The Survival of the Fittest mode can now be downloaded from the Steam Workshop. It is a total conversion mod made "to showcase the depth of the ARK Dev Kit" and features gameplay that has been called the "ARK Hunger Games."

The ARK Dev Kit also launched today. The game being powered by Unreal Engine 4, you can download the new mod kit straight from the Epic Games Launcher. It is a simplified version of the Unreal Engine 4 editor itself and is available free, even if you don't own the game. It is said that you can "easily generate [your] own ARK items, weapons, creatures, maps, and game modes" using the new mod kit.

Along with the launch of the ARK Dev Kit, Alienware are running an official "ARK: Survival Evolved Modding Contest." You can compete to win up to $15,000 and a new Alienware Area-51 Desktop, with smaller prizes for those that place second and third.

As a final bit of news, ARK is temporarily 25% off on the Amazon Store.