Evolve delayed to February 2015

Take Two Entertainment just announced that Evolve, the new multiplayer shooter from Turtle Rock Studios(Left4Dead creator) will be pushed back to next year February. It was originally planned for an October release but hey, more time for development is never a bad thing. 

Why the sudden delay? A 2K representative gave a statement to Polygon on why the four versus one multiplayer releasing next year:

"As stated on the Take-Two Interactive earnings call, 2K and Turtle Rock Studios are extending the development of Evolve by a few months to allow enough time to fully realize the vision for Evolve and meet our collective standards of creative excellence. We are encouraged by the press reaction and fan excitement coming out of a very successful E3, and we are now certain we are headed in the right direction with the game and we are confident in delivering a genre-defining product when Evolve launches on February 10, 2015."

Evolve is an online multiplayer shooter that pins four players as hunters going against one monster controlled by another player. The game will be available on PS4. Xbox One, and PC.

It was looking to be a very heavy October in the last few weeks, but these amount of delays are turning out to be a good sign since highly anticipated titles are being spread out through the coming months. Evolve is a new franchise after all, so it releasing on a less crowded month is more beneficial for Turtle Rock Studios.

Max Payne 3 Delayed

Can I say this is the first game delayed for 2012? No? correct me if I'm wrong in the comments. But yes, Max Payne has been pushed back from a March release to a May release. 

The new release date is May 15, 2012 for the Playstation 3 and Xbox 360, the PC version will be out on May 29.

We do not take changes to our release schedule lightly, and this short delay will ensure that Max Payne 3 delivers the highest quality, groundbreaking entertainment experience that is expected from our company, said Take-Two CEO Strauss Zelnick of the delay

Why the delay? there's no exact answer to why they moved Max Payne 3 to May. One thing's for sure though, Max Payne has no competition during that month. In March, Max Payne 3 will be in the same month as games like Mass Effect 3, Dragon's Dogma, Street Fighter X tekken, and a couple more  . In May, nothing else that I know are coming out on that month.

[Source: Gameinformer]

E3 2011: XCOM E3 trailer

I don't think I've mentioned this but I am a huge XCOM fan and when i first saw the trailer way back and found out it has become an FPS title , i felt like breaking something. Why change it into a First Person Shooter??! Anyways, nothing can be done and we'll have to live with it some way. 

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Ok in an FPS point of view, i'm not sure whats unique yet about XCOM. The art I'll say looks good but this trailer shows a bit more gameplay but still not enough information  to wow me.

They revealed a release date though. It's coming out on March 9, 2012 on PS3 and Xbox 360.