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Virtual currency bundles won’t be available to purchase anymore from July, before the servers shut down for good in September
Read More »2K to close Evolve servers
Turtle Rock will no longer support Evolve
Turtle Rock has announced that it will no longer work on Evolve, despite recently releasing a big update on PC that made the game free to play. In a post on the Evolve forums studio co-founders Chris Ashton and Phil Robb announced that they were moving away from Evolve, after …
Read More »Evolve’s player count shoots up 26,000% since free-to-play transition
The decision to move Evolve from a premium to free-to-play business model appears to be giving the team shooter a new lease of life. The game’s player base has increased by a whopping 26,000 per cent since its transition to a free-to-play model. Evolve had around 200 players when the …
Read More »Turtle Rock turns Evolve free-to-play to ‘get the magic back’ after ‘DLC shitstorm’
Asymmetric multiplayer shooter launched in early 2015 to mixed reviews largely surrounding implementation of extra characters and maps
Read More »Evolve is going free-to-play on PC
The speculation was correct – online shooter Evolve is dropping its upfront price on PC. A F2P beta is due to go live today, with the idea being to test server loads and experiment with new ideas on what sounds like could be the long path to full release. Those …
Read More »Oculus keynote leads Evolve day at Develop: Brighton
Head of developer strategy Anna Sweet to talk on the evolution of genre in VR
Read More »Evolve creator Turtle Rock is staffing up for a new IP
Vacancies include narrative director, animation and rendering programmers, and character and technical artists
Read More »Second season pass announced for Evolve
2K Games and Turtle Rock Studios will launch a second season pass for Evolve next week, with content arriving at unrevealed points between then and March 2016. Evolve’s Hunting Season 2 DLC will become available for purchase on June 23rd. No word on pricing yet, but the first season pass …
Read More »Former EA exec Neil Young to open Evolve: Brighton
Industry veteran will discuss the changing mobile market and how devs can ensure their games make the most of these platforms
Read More »Heard About: The music of Evolve
John Broomhall talks to composer Jason Graves about scoring Turtle Rock’s multiplayer shooter
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