Be Excellent To Each Other

Turtle Rock Studios' cooperative-competitive shooter Evolve will be released globally on Oct. 21 for PlayStation 4, Windows PC and Xbox One, publisher 2K Games announced today.

Evolve pits a team of four hunters, each with their own skills and specialties, against a giant, player-controlled monster in multiplayer mortal combat on a deadly alien world. The four-against-one game is in development at Turtle Rock, original creators of Left 4 Dead.

2K is offering a pre-order incentive for Evolve called the Monster Expansion Pack. It will include the Savage Goliath skin for one of the game's giant monsters, as well as a new monster character that will be released after Evolve ships in October.

For more on Evolve, read Polygon's hands-on impressions of the game's original four classes and the Goliath monster.

Take-Two Delays Evolve Until February
The amount of games actually coming out this fall continues to thin.

The latest game to move from fall 2014 until early 2015? Evolve. It's now scheduled for February 10.

Yup.

Take-Two casually announced a delay for the anticipated multiplayer shooter as part of its earning report.

Will you be the Hunter, or the Hunted? Join the Evolve Big Alpha and choose your side.

Congratulations you've been selected to participate in the Evolve Big Alpha - just a taste of the 4v1 action you'll get when Evolve releases on February 10th. Features and content have been limited to what is currently public. The full product includes multiple game modes, more Hunters, maps and a third Monster which will be revealed in the coming months. You may experience unexpected bugs, but by participating you're actively helping us improve the overall quality of the final game.

Please use this code to download Big Alpha and join the hunt now. Be sure to share your experience on http://evolvegame.tumblr.com/.

Big Alpha begins Friday, October 31st at 9AM PDT and ends on all platforms Sunday, November 2nd at 8PM PST.

For the latest news on Evolve, or for more information on Big Alpha, visit http://www.EvolveGame.com/News.

Happy Hunting.

Beta this weekend

You sure it isn't Alpha?

Also, this has been advertised as sponsoring WWE stuff on Sky for months now. I'm amazed that it's still not out.

Hmmm...based on an extensive couple of sessions (i.e. not very extensive at all). I'm not sure about this one. Of course it's still in Alpha but it does seem very limited, it's definitely no L4D. It does look very pretty in a Halo type way but I'm not sure it offers anything in addition to L4D2 (or 1 at that matter).

Fair point Myp (well, fair-ish...in the ishiest way possible) but I doubt the core game play is going to change dramatically before launch.

Of course, it's actually impossible to criticise L4D2, because it's actually the best game ever made.

I criticise Valve for releasing it 12 months after the first game and splitting the player base.

It's almost like it's not a finished game or something.

I expect I will purchase on PS4, will need some good reviews to be a day 1 purchase though.

Once again, it's time to hunt together - or kill alone. Welcome to the Evolve PS4 closed technical test!

In about a month, Evolve will launch! However, you won't need to wait until February 10th for this new taste of what Evolve is like. After the Big Alpha, we wanted to give you another chance to play Evolve prior to launch. And here it is - a closed technical test for Evolve. You're getting this invite because you were invited to participate in the Big Alpha. Starting Saturday, January 17th at 9am PST, we need your help once again. You have been granted access to a closed technical test for Evolve. Included in this email is your new product code.

Fans will be able to play Evolve's "Hunt" game mode with access to the first two monsters (Goliath and Kraken) and first eight hunters (Markov, Maggie, Val, Hank, Hyde, Griffin, Lazarus, and Bucket) across all 12 maps that support "Hunt" and are included at the time of launch.

How do you get in? In the PlayStation Store, scroll all the way down to "Redeem Codes" in the left-hand column. From the Web go to https://store.sonyentertainmentnetwork.com and click on your account name, then look for "Redeem Codes." From there, enter the 12-digit voucher code in this email.

After that, queue up the download and Evolve will be in your Game Library, ready for battle on January 17th.

As part of this closed technical test, we want to continue to stress test the servers and need your help to do it - so at 2pm PST on Saturday January 17th, we need as many people as possible to be online and playing Evolve.

Welcome back to the fight for Shear!

Happy Hunting.

-The Evolve team at Turtle Rock Studios and 2K

I criticise Valve for releasing it 12 months after the first game and splitting the player base.

Yes isn't it awful how Valve just keep releasing games all the time. I can't keep up with all their new releases, I wish they'd slow down.

I'd prefer if they released a new l4d every year (assuming they maintained the quality) than having adopted their new policy of not making games any more.