Zombie shooter Back 4 Blood has officially gone gold according to developer Turtle Rock Studios and publisher Warner Bros. Games. What this benchmark means is that development has reached a point where the game is ready to be released in its current state, but Turtle Rock will further polish the game ahead of its official launch in October. This could include removing some overlapping sound lines from the gameplay that sounds quite racist when they play over each other.

Back 4 Blood is a spiritual successor to the classic Left 4 Dead games, which the studio worked on back when it was acquired by Valve and was renamed Valve South. The studio was later closed by Valve after it completed work on Left 4 Dead 2 and its DLC, re-rebranded itself back to its original name of Turtle Rock, and began working on new projects.

While Evolve was an ill-fated dive into PvP multiplayer territory, the studio bounced back with several VR games for the Oculus Rift such as Face Your Fears, Journey of the Gods, and The Well.