{"id":67658,"date":"2014-08-06T08:43:11","date_gmt":"2014-08-06T06:43:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=67658"},"modified":"2014-08-06T08:44:21","modified_gmt":"2014-08-06T06:44:21","slug":"evolve-has-been-delayed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/67658-evolve-has-been-delayed","title":{"rendered":"Evolve has been delayed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>2K games has delayed the &#8220;PS4\/Xbox One\/shooting-genre defining game&#8221; Evolve until February 2015.<\/p>\n<p>The reason: the team wants to make sure the game is as polished as possible before its launch, <a title=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/67247-battlefield-hardline-and-dragon-age-inquisition-delayed.html\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/67247-battlefield-hardline-and-dragon-age-inquisition-delayed.html\">which seems to be the going quip around these things<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Evolve was originally scheduled to be released on 21 October 2014 for PS4, PC, and Xbox One.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are encouraged by the overwhelmingly positive response from press and fans, and believe by extending development by a few months, it will allow the team enough time to fully realize their creative vision for Evolve,&#8221; Take-Two president Karl Slatoff said.<\/p>\n<p>The Take-Two team added that the February release also means the game is not wedged in among the flood of holiday titles, and may benefit from this.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking in my personal capacity, they seem to have overlooked the fact that The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt is also coming out in February &#8211; Evolve stands no chance of being bought by me in that scenario.<\/p>\n<p>Along with Batman: Arkham Knight, The Witcher 3, The Order 1886, The Division, and Battlefield Hardline, 2014 seems to be the year of the delayed game.<\/p>\n<p>Rather late and good than early and rubbish, right?<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/NP5Dsuq7mKw?rel=0\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More gaming news<\/h3>\n<p style=\"color: #6e6e6e;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #0066cb;\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/67223-game-piracy-in-the-uk-is-no-longer-a-crime.html\">Game piracy in the UK is no longer a \u201ccrime\u201d<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #6e6e6e;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #0066cb;\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/67081-new-doom-the-details.html\">New Doom \u2013 the details<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #6e6e6e;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #0066cb;\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/67071-crash-bandicoot-may-make-a-comeback.html\">Crash Bandicoot may make a comeback<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2K games has delayed the &#8220;PS4\/Xbox One\/shooting-genre defining game&#8221; Evolve<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":214,"featured_media":67660,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[827,12012,12741,21,747],"class_list":["post-67658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-2k-games","tag-evolve","tag-game-delay","tag-headline","tag-take-two-interactive"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67658","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/214"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67658"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67658\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67662,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67658\/revisions\/67662"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67660"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}