2K Games, Turtle Rock Studios and ESL has announced that they will be hosting an Evolve tournament during PAX East. The tournament will take place at the PAX East ESL Arena, and will include eight teams of professional eSports players and amateurs. The single elimination tournament will see teams face off in best of three matches. People will be able to watch the tournament live on Evolve’s Twitch channel on March 6th from 10am-7pm ET.
Evolve is a difficult review for me, as I can’t help but view it through the prism of my own weighty expectations. For a long time, Evolve has looked like the game that was finally going to kick start the age of PS4 and XBone, using the grunt to power something different and innovative rather than something that’s the same but prettier. Regardless, any new franchise is always going to invoke adulation and derision in equal measure, either for finally being something different to the existing fare or for being too different to what we’re used to. Either way, it was very much a sense of anticipation that washed over me as the disc went into the Xbox and I sat back to see how it all panned out. Read more …