I take back what I said on the eevee tute as it only stated that eevee would not be available if there was a 2.79 release of Blender. Not that there already had been one. Like Miss B I don't play around much with Beta releases, but have recently been checking out the eevee interface with the latest 2.8 build which I must say works very well only been able to crash it once so far.

Incantrix