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Daybreak Games and Twin Galaxies to run H1Z1 Pro League

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Daybreak Games‘ H1Z1: King of the Kill is fighting back against the popularity of Bluehole’s PlayerUnknown Battlegrounds. Daybreak is announcing that it will partner with Twin Galaxies to create the H1Z1 Pro League, an esports tournament for Daybreak’s version of the battle royale game.

San Diego, California-based Daybreak Games hopes that H1Z1 will take off as a spectator sport akin to traditional sports like baseball, football, and basketball. And the company believes the game has a good chance to succeed as an esport because the game’s last-man-standing gameplay is easy to follow and understand.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.