The Auto Royale has begun in H1Z1.
The Auto Royale has begun in H1Z1.
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H1Z1 maker Daybreak Game Company lays off staff

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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H1Z1 game publisher Daybreak Game Company has laid off an undisclosed number of staffers at its headquarters in San Diego, GamesBeat has learned.

The online game publisher helped pioneer the “battle royale” craze with a variant of its H1Z1 game. But the company has faced fierce competition from Epic Games’ Fortnite and Bluehole’s PlayerUnknown Battlegrounds, which have seen a meteoric rise in the past year.

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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.