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‘Left 4 Dead’ developer responds to Take-Two acquiring the rights for ‘Evolve’

Developer Turtle Rock Studio, who is behind the “Left 4 Dead” series, has issued a response in regards to Take-Two Interactive acquiring the rights of their upcoming multiplatform current and next-gen title, “Evolve.”

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extermin8or4095d ago

Swear Valve made left for dead.... never heard of 'turtle rock' have i missed something....?!

febreeze14095d ago

Valve basically bought the studio, fired most of the people and kept the IP...

DeadIIIRed4095d ago

Turtle Rock is to Valve what Santa Monica Studio is to Sony; one branch on a larger corporate tree.

DOMination-4095d ago

Can't ge right. If Valve own them then why aren't they publishing this game? Why did THQ own the IP?

DeadlyFire4095d ago

Valve actually shut it down, but the studio reformed itself. So its on its own now. So they can make whatever under whoever they want.

DOMination-4095d ago

Thanks for the information, DeadlyFire

FlyingFoxy4095d ago

Turtle Rock were the original developers of Left 4 Dead, Valve took over and continued to develop on the game and changed stuff (character models etc) to make it look better.

Valve then developed Left 4 Dead 2, i am really looking forward to Left 4 Dead 3 on Source 2.

DeadlyFire4095d ago (Edited 4095d ago )

Valve bought Turtle Rock while they were working on Left 4 Dead before most even knew about the game. Transferred team to Valve South at some point. Then shut down Turtle Rock. Kept Left 4 Dead IP. Turtle Rock then reformed itself.

extermin8or4095d ago

So how can the IP have belonged to THQ? wtf...

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Skate-AK4095d ago

Oh nice I didn't know it was gonna use CryEngine 3.

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Evolve or Die: The final days of the follow-up to Left 4 Dead

Back in 2016, Turtle Rock announced that support for its 4v1 monster-hunting shooter Evolve would end but fans wouldn't let it die.

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‘Evolve: Stage 2’ is back from the dead as peer-to-peer servers come back online

From NME: "Evolve: Stage 2 had its multiplayer servers shut down back in 2018, but today players are once again able to matchmake and join peer-to-peer multiplayer games.

Several months ago, peer-to-peer functionality was lost for Evolve Legacy, which was the only way fans of the series could play with friends. Upon a multitude of players reaching out to publisher 2K, the issue was eventually fixed earlier in July. It seems 2K have gone a step further now, and reinstated peer-to-peer and matchmaking functionality for Evolve: Stage 2 after four years."

MIDGETonSTILTS17627d ago

^^this, I have so many awesome skins on Xbox that I’d rather not lose

Germaximus627d ago

Yes so far because it's just the servers alone coming on and the console version never had the free-to-play update.

I imagine if they find people playing the PC version and enough players are enjoying it then they'd probably reconsider opening console as well but I wouldn't count on it.

The game was epic as a monster. Hunters were really boring to play as to me.

LordoftheCritics627d ago

I used to play this a bit.

Was kinda fun.

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Evolve or Die

Evolve is an asymmetrical multiplayer experience born at the tail-end of the wrong era, in the multiplayer world.

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Highrevz1096d ago

Great idea but poorly executed and destined to fail from the begging. Only thing I’m grateful towards this game is that it’s the one that convinced me to never buy a game blind again.

Shadowrun for the Xbox 360/PC would of been a better example of a great online game that launched At the wrong time.

Livingthedream1096d ago

Shadow Run was fantastic! Would probably do alot better now.

DaveZero1096d ago

Is this a new evolve game??