It is co-developed by Tripod Studio and Smilegates game development subsidiary Smilegate RPG. It will be interesting to see what they do with the franchise after this initial burst of games. Fitting to the contents of my YouTube-Channel we just recently launched the ARK-Magazine in which you can find news, guides, tutorials and opinion pieces about ARK Survival Evolved. Lost Ark is a top-down 2.5D fantasy massively multiplayer online action role-playing game (MMOARPG). The Chinese game developer and publisher owns Studio Wildcard and, by extension, the ARK franchise. To get to that philosophy, GamesBeat interviewed Studio Wildcard cofounder and co-creative director Jesse Rapczak, who explained what it’s like to have a top-selling game that has generated more. So now you know why ARK is slowly being turned into a major franchise, courtesy of Snail Games. This revelation was made due to the fact that new court documents filed by Insight Venture Management, the parent company of Trendy Entertainment that was recently suing Studio Wildcard over a failure to uphold a non-compete clause, referenced the buyout. Officially, the company was merged into 'Snail Ark, Inc.' Unfortunately, we don't know how much Snail Games paid for the company. Well, it turns out that SDE, Inc, an affiliate of Snail Games USA, which is a subsidiary of Snail Games, bought out Studio Wildcard the merger was filed for on December 4th, 2015. You might be wondering why Studio Wildcard has been helping with the development of Dark and Light or why Snail Games announced two ARK spin-offs, the Minecraft-like PixARK and ARK GO, in addition to the free-to-play Chinese release of ARK.

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