Turtle Rock gets delayed PS4 Evolve Big Alpha up at last

After a delay of a couple of days, PlayStation 4 owners can now get into the Evolve alpha demo test. Evolve isn’t launching officially until February, but its alpha test is highly anticipated because the title won more than 60 awards for best game at this year’s E3 trade show.

Publisher 2K Games and developer Turtle Rock Studios revealed earlier that they were postponing the Evolve test for PS4 because of issues related to Sony’s 2.0 update for the PS4 game console, which has had a number of issues. The Xbox One and PC alpha tests went off without a hitch.

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Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.