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SURVIVE THE WILDS OF VALGUERO ASCENDED — FREE MAP NOW AVAILABLE IN ARK: SURVIVAL ASCENDED

Remastered Map Features New ASA Creatures Megaraptor and Deinonychus; Download Elderclaw Now With Lost Colony Expansion Pass Content Drop

SEATTLE, WA - October 7, 2025 - Studio Wildcard today announced that Valguero Ascended, the fully remastered version of the fan-favorite ARK: Survival Evolved expansion map, is now available for free in ARK: Survival Ascended.


In Valguero Ascended, the ultimate survival experience is sharper, wilder, and deadlier than ever across a vast, diverse world waiting to be explored. Here is where medieval legend and ancient memory intertwine - rolling highlands and towering White Cliffs lie in the shadow of crumbling relics long reclaimed by time. Joining this haunting landscape is the vicious new Megaraptor, a ruthless predator that now stalks prey alongside Valguero’s classic Deinonychus.

 
The Megaraptor is a terrifying apex predator that dominates as Valguero’s ultimate boss encounter.
 
  • Watch the Valguero Ascended gameplay trailer HERE.

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The Fantastic Tames: Elderclaw also debuts today, a free new creature for Survivors who own the Lost Colony: Expansion Pass and available separately after January. Lost Colony is the first all-original adventure for ARK: Survival Ascended, a journey into a frozen world where Survivors follow Mei Yin (voiced by Michelle Yeoh in ARK: The Animated Series) on a soul-searching quest deep into the chilling heart of darkness to find answers to long-buried secrets of ARK’s past. 
 
VALGUERO ASCENDED FEATURES
 
  • Over 63 kilometers of new land and sea to explore!
  • Ten distinct biomes: From the glowing reimagined Tundra where beauty veils lethal cold, to towering Redwoods, sweeping White Cliffs, dense jungles, frozen snowfields, pine and oak forests, and luminous deepsea ocean where the shadowed abyss of the Aberration Trench lies.
  • Megaraptor - Winner of ARK’s community creature vote, the Megaraptor is a free new creature for Valguero Ascended. Watch your backs, Survivors! Outwit the stealthiest hunter on the ARKS, and turn the hunter into the hunted in the epic new boss fight!
  • Deinonychus -  A cliff-leaping predator whose sickle-shaped claws find prey with terrifying speed, tearing into the living as its victims struggle. Whether it’s clinging to cliffs or clawing through your defenses, it’s a creature you won’t want to underestimate!

LOST COLONY EXPANSION PASS CONTENT DROP
 
  • Fantastic Tames: Elderclaw - A mystical forest guardian raised from seedlings, this towering forest guardian is both protector and predator, a primal force bound to the heart of the forest. 

Additionally, ARK: Survival Ascended has been further optimized for enhanced performance across a wider array of hardware, including NVIDIA's GeForce GTX 1080 series cards and handheld devices such as Steam Deck and ROG Ally X.


ARK: Survival Ascended includes access to all of ARK’s worlds, including Scorched Earth, Aberration, Extinction, ARK Genesis Part 1 and Part 2, and now Valguero! Available now on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, Windows PC and Steam, players will create a Survivor, form a tribe, and then tame, train, breed & ride dinosaurs within a living ecosystem.


For the latest updates, join the ARK Survivor’s conversation on Discord, follow us on Twitter, like us on Facebook, subscribe to us on YouTube, visit our website at playark.com and watch us tame ‘n train leviathan dinosaurs on Twitch.TV.

 
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ABOUT STUDIO WILDCARD

Since revealing its flagship game ARK: Survival Evolved in 2015, Studio Wildcard has tirelessly strived to bring its dinosaur-filled vision to the masses. With millions of players worldwide, the team has delivered an amazing amount of new content and leveraged cutting-edge technology to keep fans engaged. With a transmedia universe, the ARK story can be discovered on all gaming platforms, within spin-off titles, and now as a new epic narrative featuring a star-studded cast in ARK: The Animated Series on Paramount+. www.studiowildcard.com