The upcoming Big Alpha will start on the 30th of October for Xbox One owners (Xbox Live required), while on the 31st of October PS4 (PSN+ required) and PC owners will also be able to join the hunt.

And as part of the festivities, we’ve got our hands on 50 limited Big Alpha keys, which we will be handing out to the lucky winners of our Big Alpha raffle. These will guarantee you access to the closed alpha as soon as it gets released, so enter below for a chance to win!

If you aren’t familiar with Evolve or just want to find out more about the classes, be sure to check back in the coming weeks as we will be previewing the various different characters and monsters in a number of handy guides. Let the hunt begin!

If you want to read more about our previous playtesting experiences with Evolve, be sure to check out these articles:

• Evolve: playtesting a new breed of co-op shooter
• Clinging to the bottom of the foodchain: Pansy plays Evolve
• From cocoon to killer: Jason Kaplan plays Evolve
• Rampaging onto the eSports scene: Evolve at gamescom 2014