Ark 2 will let you ride ridiculously large dinosaurs next year TechRadar Skip to main content TechRadar is supported by its audience. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here's why you can trust us. Ark 2 will let you ride ridiculously large dinosaurs next year By Callum Bains last updated 12 June 2022 Jurassic World 3 ain't nothing (Image credit: Studio Wildcard) Audio player loading… Prehistoric survival game Ark 2 has been teased in a new trailer. The video, which was shown during the Xbox and Bethesda Showcase, confirms the sequel to 2017's Ark: Survival Evolved is coming next year. Although only a cinematic trailer, (opens in new tab) it demonstrates the core premise of the upcoming multiplayer title: survive in a hostile alien world populated by vicious dinos ready to tear you to bits. You'll also be taming the beasties, letting you ride around like you're attending a Jurassic rodeo. Although no gameplay was shown, the teaser offers some background lore to the upcoming game. Players will take the role of descendants of interstellar human colonists who attempted to settle a hostile exoplanet after Earth was destroyed in a brutal planetary war. Presumably, it didn't go too well for them, since their offspring are reduced to using primitive tools befitting of cavemen, rather than the bleeding edge tech you'd expect of a spacefaring civilization. "Survive the past. Tame the future," the video's description reads. "Suddenly awakened on a primal world filled with dinosaurs and humans struggling for dominance, you must team up with legendary heroes to confront powerful dark forces." Watch the gameplay below for a taste of gigantic reptiles you'll be trying to tame. As in the first game, Ark 2 seems to be guided by a single evolutionary truism 2: the big dino eats the little dino. While the first extinct reptile shown in the video is little more than a measly dodo, each new creature introduced is incrementally larger, until the final dinosaur shown is just bewilderingly enormous. Is it a T-Rex? Is it a Gigantosaurus? Who knows, but it's ludicrously large. Ark 2 currently has no set release date outside of 2023. That could be in the second half of the year, so don't expect a firmer date to be announced in the next few months. And if you're an Xbox Game Pass subscriber, you're in luck. The game will be hitting the subscription service on day one. If you just can't wait to try your hand at a spot of prehistoric survival, you could always check out the first Ark game, Survival Evolved. Its Nintendo Switch port received a massive overhaul earlier this year, finally fixing its egregious technical bugs. Callum BainsGaming News WriterCallum is TechRadar Gaming's News Writer. You'll find him whipping up stories about all the latest happenings in the gaming world, as well as penning the odd feature and review. Before coming to TechRadar, he wrote freelance for various sites, including Clash, The Telegraph, and Gamesindustry.biz, and worked as a Staff Writer at Wargamer. Strategy games and RPGs are his bread and butter, but he'll eat anything that spins a captivating narrative. He also loves tabletop games, and will happily chew your ear off about TTRPGs and board games. See more Gaming news TechRadar Newsletter Sign up to get breaking news, reviews, opinion, analysis and more, plus the hottest tech deals! Thank you for signing up to TechRadar. You will receive a verification email shortly. There was a problem. Please refresh the page and try again. MOST POPULARMOST SHARED1Micro-LED 4K TVs aren't trying to kill OLED, they're aiming at projectors2Google event recap: Pixel 7, 7 Pro, Pixel Watch and all the big announcements3You may not have to sell a body part to afford the Nvidia RTX 4090 after all4My days as a helpful meat shield are over, thanks to the Killer Klown horror game5Google Pixel 7 and Pixel 7 Pro: the 7 most exciting new camera features1We finally know what 'Wi-Fi' stands for - and it's not what you think2Dreamforce 2022 live: All the announcements from this year's show3'Go small or go home': HTC teases a new Vive VR headset4She-Hulk episode 8 just confirmed Netflix's Daredevil TV show is canon in the MCU5Google's new AI lets you turn words into HD videos Technology Magazines (opens in new tab)● (opens in new tab)The best tech tutorials and in-depth reviewsFrom$12.99 (opens in new tab)View (opens in new tab)