King of the Kill keeps the H1Z1 in its divorce with Just Survive
H1Z1 started as an online multiplayer zombie-survival shooter, but it will end its life as a Battle Royale-like. Publisher Daybreak Game Company is officially dropping...
Esports TV ratings aren’t great … except for Candy Crush
Esports games like Dota 2 and League of Legends have massive global audiences, but most of those viewers consume content online. That has led...
Comparing Battle Royale-likes: PUBG vs. H1Z1 vs. the rest
PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds, H1Z1: King of the Kill, and more are part of a popular new genre on PC gaming’s biggest platform where you have...
H1Z1: King of the Kill’s active player count has grown 1,000% since September
Publisher Daybreak Games’ competitive zombie survival shooter has fought its way back to the top of Steam. H1Z1: King of the Kill’s number of...
Hero’s Song RPG is the first game from ex-Sony Online chief John Smedley’s startup
John Smedley, the former head of Sony Online Entertainment, has unveiled Hero’s Song, the first game from his new studio PixelImage Games. Smedley served at...
PlanetSide 2 on PlayStation 4 offers complex, rewarding battles — but only if you have time for it
I hated the first few days I spent with PlanetSide 2. I kept getting lost, and I barely lived long enough to figure out...
Daybreak Game Company’s John Smedley steps down as chief executive officer
Just a few weeks after Lizard Squad took down Daybreak servers, one of the pioneers of massively multiplayer online games and the free-to-play strategy on home consoles is leaving his company.
Eight dollar H1Z1 lumbers into GMG’s 2015 Summer Sale
GMG's summer sale kicks off with zombie themed games on sale for up to 80% off.
Beware the dark: H1Z1 players switch off when night falls on the zombie apocalypse
The massively multiplayer online zombie game has a realistic day-and-night cycle, but developer Daybreak Game Company — formerly known as Sony Online Entertainment — crunched some data and found a much higher percentage of players log out when it gets dark.