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DARK SECRETS: Dayz - The Real Truth

DayZ creator Dean 'Rocket' Hall has over 2,000 hours in Kerbal Space Program and played the original XCOM at Mount Everest base camp: 'I think when I die, I will still be playing that game'

The founder of RocketWerkz talks us through the games on his PC.

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DayZ creator calls to 'normalize delaying games,' that consumers can show Xbox and Sony 'that delays are okay' and, oh, 'Personally: don't preorder games, folks. Commercially: please preorder games'

"It's the only way PlayStation/Xbox notice us."

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Survival games are more popular than ever, but is one of the decade's most influential genres more endangered than it seems?

Opinion | The art of survival games' unique staying power

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'Valve does not get anywhere near enough criticism': DayZ creator Dean Hall says the 'gambling mechanics' of Valve's monetization strategy 'have absolutely no place' in videogames

Are we all letting Valve off easy for its loot crate economy?

PC Gamer

Knit’s Island review – comradeship and survival in brutal and bloody online zombie game

This inventive film, made entirely inside the multiplayer game DayZ, finds moments of community and wonder amid the zombies, factions and virtual bloodshed

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Clockwork Revolution dev InXile worked on a Wasteland VR survival game with DayZ's former director—until Xbox cancelled it

"Microsoft wasn't hot on VR."

PC Gamer

Ex-DayZ boss says survival games should give players as much power as developers and "expose damn near every single variable" they can mod: "Expose as much as possible"

Brian Hicks wants you to have ultimate control

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Former DayZ lead thinks survival games should let players tinker with every variable: 'Here's the keys. Have fun'

If a game's going to last, it should let players fiddle with everything.

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A 'little educational game for middle-schoolers' left DayZ's creators obsessed, inspired, and embroiled in a contentious presidential campaign: 'It's 4.5 years later, and I'm still talking about this story'

DayZ's former creative director thinks the survival genre needs to take a leaf out of Eco's book.

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DayZ's biggest map ever is coming next year, where 'Middle Eastern-style cities lie next to Soviet-era military bases'

The 267x267 km map is called Badlands, set in the Nasdara province of ArmA's fictional country of Takistan.

PC Gamer

DayZ creator says Unity is accusing his studio of violating its software license based on the email addresses of two people who never worked there: 'This raises some serious questions about how Unity is scraping this data'

Unity gave RocketWerkz a week to get its licenses sorted, but its evidence seems a little suspect.

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After more than 10 years on Steam, DayZ sets another new concurrent player record

The Frostline expansion launched earlier this month and by all reports it's absolutely miserable, which is apparently what DayZ players want.

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If you keep getting your stuff stolen in DayZ and Rust, this 40% off bundle's a great way to call in backup

That's a killer deal.

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Bohemia Interactive reveals plans for DayZ in 2024, building toward 'a colossal milestone and an exhilarating moment you won't want to miss'

Brand of the dead.

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DayZ and Icarus team up with a cheeky 'The Day After' survival Steam sale bundle

The Day Before folded just days after its launch, but you can grab two much better survival games that keep on surviving for 33% off.

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How DayZ spawned a new genre: the unfinished survival game

Steam Early Access led to new solutions, and lots of new problems, for both developers and players of survival games.

PC Gamer

DayZ's just hit its highest-ever player count a decade after its standalone release

Unlike its players, this game's in rude health.

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2024 Nissan Dayz Kei Car Debuts In Japan With Fresh Design, 660cc Engine

Prices for the model start at below $10,000.

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‘It’s like dying’ – DayZ creator on how success was life-altering

Dean Hall explains how DayZ's surge in popularity was difficult to comprehend initially.

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DayZ 1.38 patch squashes bugs and fixes lag

After DayZ update 1.17, this patch 1.38 fixes some lingering bugs and gives a few quality of life changes, and we've detailed every change.

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