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Evolve Has Been Delayed Until February 2015

Evolve Has Been Delayed Until February 2015

As reported by MCV on Tuesday, August 5, Turtle Rock Studio’s Evolve has been pushed from its original release date to early next year.

Initially, Evolve was slated to release on Tuesday, October 21 for PC, Xbox One and PlayStation 4 , but now the game will launch on Tuesday, February 10, 2015 in both the US and UK.

Strauss Zelnick, the CEO of Take-Two (the game’s publisher), took a moment to explain to MCV why Evolve has been delayed. As it turns out, the delay is not to avoid the packed releases during the last quarter of the year, but rather to ensure Evolve has extra polish.

It was the primary belief that polish pays off, ” Zelnick told MCV. ” When we give a title that is looking so promising, having won best of show at E3, a bit more time to make sure it is just as good as it can be, historically that has always been a good move to us.

Equally, I do like the February release date, I have to tell you. If you look at our history since we took over the company seven years ago, we have largely stayed out of the Holiday period and gone into what our competitors consider ‘non-traditional’ release windows, ” Zelnick continued. “ And that has served us very well. In February we are going to get the benefit of this new install base from over Christmas, and February will be wide open.

Zelnick added that the last portion of 2014 has already been booked by a number of Take-Two releases, including Civilization: Beyond Earth and Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel .

We have a pretty busy schedule in October, ” Zelnick added. ” With regards to NBA and WWE , they belong in October, they are annualised released. The rest of it we think are well position, Civilization: Beyond Earth is a title that typically sells over a very long period of time, so that initial release date is not super-relevant. And Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel is being offered for current-gen, so it is arguably going to be seen amongst a different competitive set.

We’ve established that Evolve won Game Critics Awards’ “Best of Show” award for this year’s E3, along with more than 50 awards and editorial honors (including four more from the Game Critics Awards).

We’ll bring you more Evolve related news should further information reach our ears. In the meantime, check out our Angelo M. D’Argenio’s PlayStation 4 preview of the game . You can also check out 23 minutes of PC gameplay of Evolve , too.

[ MCV ]

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