Evolve has gone gold today, getting its certification. Not that this is any surprise given that we know it’s coming out this February, but it is important for one other reason and that reason is charity.

Back in January Turtle Rock announced that they were taking a “No Shave ‘Til Ship” pledge. Basically this meant that until the game passed its certification the bearded members of staff would not shave their beards and the other non-bearded staff wouldn’t be cutting their hair. For every inch of hair grown and cut at the end of the end of the time period, the studio would donate $50 to charity Child’s Play. The final total was 227.5 inches which meant a respectable $11,375 would be donated and with published 2K agreeing to match that donation a massive $22,750 has been donated to charity today as a result. Wow.

Turtle Rock are now turning their attention the the upcoming Open Beta, which is only open to Xbox One owners although there will be a small “closed technical test” for PC players from January 16th. Conditions to be included aren’t known but there’s been some rumours around that having been in the Alpha test will increase your chances of getting in.